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Tuesday, September 07, 2010 #

Silverlight Cream for September 07, 2010 -- #942

In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, PostVision, Mike Taulty, Jesse Liberty, Laurent Duveau, Phil Middlemiss, Xianzhong Zhu, pauliom, Sudhindra Kovalam(-2-), and Alexander Viken.

Shoutouts:

The Silverlight Blog announced the release of a new WCF RIA Services (Silverlight QuickStart)

John Papacreated a stir yesterday with his Top 10 Silverlight Blogs ... thanks for the shoutout John!!

Jesse Liberty posted The Great Silverlight Competency Test – 3

From SilverlightCream.com:

Datagrid: support for grouping on columns use IValueConverters to display their value and conditonal rowstyling: Emiel Jongerius expands on his last DataGrid update with this one using IValueConverters for grouping and row styling
SilverMotion: Ivan at PostVision sent me this page and asked if I had questions... the first one to come to mind is "Are you hiring" ... wow... I can say that backwards: wow... check it out, and free for personal use... they also get the award for the most tags on a submittal that is real :)
Blend Bits 1: Layout the Environment: Mike Taulty pulls a well, 'Mike Taulty' on me by dropping about 10 posts in one day... we've discussed this in the past :) ... thing is, he's starting a series he's calling Blend Bits, and although I'll continue to list them singly, you can bookmark that last link. The next 5 in the series are: 2) Blend Bits 2: Learn a Few Keyboard Shortcuts , 3) Blend Bits 3: Watch Your Margins , 4) Blend Bits 4: Get Your Grids Sorted , 5) Blend Bits 5: Paths Are Your Friend (1) , and 6)Blend Bits 6: Paths Are Your Friend (2)
iPhone to WP7 – Diving Deeper: Jesse Liberty has his 2nd in a series of WP7dev for iPhone devs... discussing MVVM and Delegates (event handling).
Silverlight how-to: Inherit from an Implicit Style: Laurent Duveau has a post up discussing Implicit Styles and how to go about inheriting from them even though they have no key.
A Tiled Image Brush for Silverlight: Phil Middlemiss has yet another great post up ... a Tiled ImageBrush for Silverlight... it behaves like a border, but it also has a TiledImageSource property... very cool.
Integrate the 3D Engine Balder into Your Silverlight Applications Part 1: Xianzhong Zhu has begun a series of tutorials at DotNetSlackers on integrating the Balder-3D engine into your Silverlight apps... if you haven't done this yet, this may be a good time to start!
Wp7 vs keyboard vs ApplicationBar vs binding: I'm coming along a little late, but am able to pick up the 3 posts where pauliom is discussing the WP7 keyboard and issues he's having. Read his solution and the comments offered by others. His next post is keyboard as well:Keyboard helper class for wp7 vs tab index, and then a solution for the original problem: wp7 Keyboard helper as a behavior.
A Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application : Part 1 of 2 (Understanding oAuth): Sudhindra Kovalam has a two-part tutorial series up on building a Twitter app for WP7 using the new oAuth mechanism. This first post covers all the handshaking, including getting your app registered with Twitter.
A Windows Phone Twitter Application : Part 2 of 2: In the second tutorial of the series, Sudhindra Kovalam gets down to actually posting a tweet using all the credentials from the last time.
Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model: Alexander Viken has a post up discussing the WP7 Execution model with links out to docs on the WP7 blog.