WynApse

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Jeff Wilcox, Erik Mork(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Morten Nielsen, Josh Smith, Mohamed Mosallem, and Jose Fajardo.

This episode of SilverlightCream brought to you from beautiful and green (and cool) Minneapolis, Minnesota... quite a change of temperature and time zone from Phoenix, Arizona!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Expression Blendable Silverlight View Model Communication

Michael Washington takes a break from Lightswitch and steps back into his MVVM/ViewModel discussions with this discussion of communication between Master and Child ViewModels that is also Blendable.

Transition guide from phone.codeplex.com to the official Panorama & Pivot controls

Jeff Wilcox provides the information about a transition guide for getting up to speed on the panorama and pivot controls baked into the WP7 code.

Installing the Windows Phone 7 Tools In 3 Steps

And if you haven't yet crossed over to having the latest WP7 tools installed, Erik Mork has a post up for that as well.. including a small test app to prove it's all loaded.

Show 107: John Papa talks about Upcoming Silverlight Awesomeness

Speaking of Erik Mork, somehow I missed his Show number 107 where he interviewed John Papa about a whole bunch of upcoming Silverlight goodness.

iPhone to Windows Phone 7: Launchers and Choosers

In his continuing quest in comparing iPhone development and WP7, Jesse Liberty steps into Launchers and Choosers... or you can take this link: Windows Phone 7 for Silverlight Programmers – Launchers and Choosers

Yet Another Podcast Show #2 – Erik Mork Discussing Windows Phone 7

Jesse Liberty also has his second "Yet another Podcast" up, and he's talking to the king of Silverlight Podcasts, Erik Mork, and they're discussing WP7.

Displaying HTML in Silverlight

Morten Nielsen took David Anson's HTMLTextBlockControl and brought it up to Silverlight 4 with some additional tweaks.

Consuming resources from external assemblies in Silverlight 4

Josh Smith takes solid aim at the XamlParseException you get when you try to use resources that are declared in a ResourceDictionary in a referenced assembly... and explains the extremely simple (and silly) workaround ... love that "YouHaveToBeKiddingMe"

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (1 of N)

Mohamed Mosallem has a nice set of Silverlight 4 tutorials going, and I checked and had never gone back and picked up the first 3, so here they are beginning with this first one that sets up the project and starts it all of. This is followed by 2)Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (2 of N), and 3)Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (3 of N): Working with the DataForm Control.

Using an image as a mask so that WP7 theme’s are honoured

Jose Fajardo has a great tutorial up on how to get your icons in WP7 to be theme aware... sweet little Expression Blend tutorial.

Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10