Silverlight Cream for September 24, 2010 -- #954

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Silverlight Cream for September 24, 2010 -- #954

In this Issue: John Papa, John McFetridge, Andy Schwam, Tim Heuer, Nigel Sampson(-2-, -3-), Shawn Wildermuth, Dave Relyea, Jesse Liberty, and Sigurd Snørteland.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight 4: Drag and Drop DataGrids with Access to the Data Being Dropped" Andy Schwam
WP7:	"Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Developers: Life Cycle " Jesse Liberty

Shoutouts:

Ian Griffiths announced free Silverlight Printing Video training at PluralSight until Sunday.

From SilverlightCream.com:

What’s Wrong with my WCF Service? Yavor Knows!: John Papa has Yavor Georgiev on Silverlight TV this week discussing WCF, and since Yavor works on that team, he knows what he's talking about !
WP7 Stock Quoting Demo Series Part 1: John McFetridge has the first 3 parts of a 5-part tutorial series on building a WP7 Stock Quoting application at SilverlightShow. This first one is on the UX and data access. Following that are 2)WP7 Stock Quoting Demo Series Part 2, and 3)WP7 Stock Quoting Demo Series Part 3.
Silverlight 4: Drag and Drop DataGrids with Access to the Data Being Dropped: Andy Schwam has a great post up on what to do with that data you've conveniently 'dropped' into a grid ... cosmetically it looks great, but whoa, what about the actual data aspect of it all??
Handling picture orientation in CameraCaptureTask in Windows Phone 7: Tim Heuer was playing around with the CameraCaptureTask on WP7 and came up with a work-around for the natural tendency for all photos to come out landscape.
WP7 Quake [Earthquake]: In response to the earthquake recently in New Zealand, Nigel Sampson built a WP7 app to plot the quake and it's aftershocks as a demo of using Bing maps on WP7.
WP7: Where Am I?: Nigel Sampson's next WP7 app is a GPS app that answers the question "Where am I?" ...
WP7: Hold it Level: The third Nigel Sampson post I'm listing tonight is demonstrating the use of the accelerometer... effectively turning the WP7 into a level.
Building AgiliTrain's Workshop Application for WP7: Shawn Wildermuth gives some pretty good detail on the application he's training with for WP7 ... should be good for anyone thinking about taking the training ... get them all fired-up to learn with Shawn!
Panorama Tricks – Using XAML for your Background: Dave Relyea takes a unique look at the WP7 Panorama and figured out a way to put some XAML in there... definitely worth a try!
Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Developers: Life Cycle: Jesse Liberty has a great post up on the WP7 Application Lifecycle... including an app to help drive the points home...if you're doing any WP7 work... this is one to get your head around.
More WP7 samples (chess & shock): Sigurd Snørteland has two more WP7 games up ... and both are winners: Chess and 'shock' ... a breakout-like game...