Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2010 -- #953

In this Issue: Brett Balmer, Kirupa Chinnathambi, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Mohamed Mosallem, René Schulte, Mahesh Sabnis, Aaron Stannard(-2-), Rudi Grobler(-2-), and Michael Washington.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight: "Reading Excel File in Silverlight 4.0 - COM Programming "
Mahesh Sabnis
WP7: "Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit "
David Anson
Training: "Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit "
David Anson

Shoutouts:

Jesse Liberty has posted The Great Silverlight Competency Test #5

From SilverlightCream.com:
VMCollectionWrapper - Synchronize a Model collection with a ViewModel collection
Brett Balmer has a good code-laden post up about MVVM and a solution for all those pesky collections that live under a ViewModel - his solution was to create a VMCollectionWrapper, and he posted it for all of us.
Creating an Application Bar
Kirupa Chinnathambi has a nice 3-page tutorial on creating an ApplicationBar for your WP7 app.
Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit
David Anson is discussing the Date & Time picker for WP7, and who better than someone on the team that wrote it! - great sample and all the code.
iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Tutorial: Objective-C, C#, Xaml
Jesse Liberty continues his iPhone : WP7 excursion with a good XAML and C# discussion
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTM Problem
Mohamed Mosallem has a nugget of WP7 goodness about what to do when the VM service used by the emulator stops, or more importantly, how to recognize when it does!
Windows Phone Memory Constraints
René Schulte has a great WP7 post up describing how to determine the memory usage of your app, which is important for getting it approved in the Marketplace.
Reading Excel File in Silverlight 4.0 - COM Programming
Fire up all those synapses that used to know COM and check out Mahesh Sabnis' post about reading Excel files with Silverlight 4
SuperHappyDevHouse Lightning Talk: MVVM for Noobs
Aaron Stannard gave a presentation on MVVM for Noobs last weekend, and has a video on the subject to share with everyone.
MVVM Light Toolkit Example on Windows Phone 7: Twitter Search
Aaron Stannard also posted a WP7 MVVM Light example of a Twitter search that went along with his presentation.
WP7 - Who are You?
Rudi Grobler describes how to use the DeviceExtendedProperties class to find out the down-and-dirty info about the device you're app is running on.
Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is Loopy
Rudi Grobler is also discussing the WP7 Toolkit and particularly the Date & Time picker with it's LoopingSelector, and demos how to use it for us
LightSwitch Student Information System (Part 3): Custom Controls
Michael Washington has part 3 of his great tutorial series on Lightswitch up, and this one is really pushing Lightswitch to it's limits.

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posted @ Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:38 PM
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