Silverlight Cream for September 19, 2010 -- #952

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Silverlight Cream for September 19, 2010 -- #952

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Paul Patterson, Gergely Orosz, Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios, Kirupa Chinnathambi, SilverLaw(-2-), Sergey Barskiy, Jeremy Likness, and Sigurd Snørteland.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"CodeBox - Syntax Highlighting In Silverlight For Any Programming Language " SilverLaw
WP7:	"Back to Windows Phone 7 Database " Sergey Barskiy
Lightswitch:	"LightSwitch Student Information System (Part 2): Business Rules and Screen Permissions " Michael Washington

Shoutouts:

Karl Shifflett posted his Charlotte M-V-VM Code and Decks

From SilverlightCream.com:

LightSwitch Student Information System (Part 2): Business Rules and Screen Permissions: Rounding out the Lightswitch tutorials is Michael Washington's 2nd part of his awesome Student Information System app... great detailed tutorial and all the code.
Microsoft Lightswitch - Behind the Pretty Face: Hang out with Paul Patterson while he describes some things about Lightswitch: Lightswitch Application Presentation Tier, Shell, Business Objects and Rules, Screens, and Data Workspace.
Disappearing Style Setters in Silverlight 3 and WP7 – fixed in Silverlight 4: Gergely Orosz has a bug that appears to be fixed in SL4, but oops, it's still in the WP7 code... check out his examples for yourself and see if you need to be paying attention!
Simple Puzzle Game for Windows Phone 7 using XNA: Check out the sliding puzzle game Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios did in WP7 -- in XNA... read the post, download, and learn!
Detecting the Theme in Windows Phone 7: Kirupa Chinnathambi has a post up describing how to detect the current theme on a WP7 device... so you can adjust something yourself in your app.
Navigation Page Transition Samples - Silverlight 4: SilverLaw posted 5 Silverlight navigation samples to the Expression Gallery: Pixelate, ColorTone, FlipInOut, StandUpLieDown, and Web page.
CodeBox - Syntax Highlighting In Silverlight For Any Programming Language: SilverLaw also posted 'CodeBox' to let bloggers post code on their pages that look exactly as they did in VS... wanna know how? ... read on :)
Back to Windows Phone 7 Database: Sergey Barskiy has updated his WP7 database to the RTM tools... go grab it at CodePlex!
Hosting HTML in Silverlight (not Out of Browser): Jeremy Likness discusses and demonstrates putting HTML into Silverlight control on a web page. I tried his example in IE8 and FF, and both worked just perfectly..
WP7 samples (coverflow, solitarie, weather,clock) upgraded to RTM: Sigurd Snørteland has converted 3 of his WP7 apps to the RTM codebase ... cool stuff, check them out, download the code