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Thursday, September 30, 2010 #

Silverlight Cream for September 30, 2010 -- #958

In this Issue: Rudi Grobler, Paul Patterson, Dragos Manolescu, Rob Tiffany, Mike Snow, Gergely Orosz, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Kirupa Chinnathambi, Alex Knight, and Nigel Sampson.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Yet Another Podcast Show #3 – John Papa on MVVM and Patterns" Jesse Liberty
WP7:	"Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Building a WCF REST + JSON Service" Rob Tiffany
Training:	"Microsoft Lightswitch - A Data Driven Approach" Paul Patterson

Shoutouts:

Tim Heuer attempts to help in your Understanding Silverlight releases (and the September 2010 2nd service update)

From SilverlightCream.com:

WP7 - Podium: Rudi Grobler discusses and shows off a CodePlex project that is a Power-Point addin for WP7!
Microsoft Lightswitch - A Data Driven Approach: This is another of Paul Patterson's early Lightswitch posts... good information even if before the beta
WP7 Code: Distance Computations with the GeoLocation API: Dragos Manolescu continues with his WP7 and GeoLocation work by this time calculating distances between locations... wow... I can think of a lot of apps for that one!
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Building a WCF REST + JSON Service: Rob Tiffany has a great post up on WP7 covering things like JSON and REST ... cool stuff, Rob!
Silverlight Tip of the Day #35 – Dynamically Changing Styles: Mike Snow has another tip up and shows how to change styles on controls at run-time.
Getting Started with WP7 Development: Learning Siverlight: Gergely Orosz has a great post up about the fundamentals of Silverlight with an eye toward WP7 development... this is a great place to begin if you have not!
The iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Tutorial Mind Map: Did you know Jesse Liberty is keeping up a MindMap of all the iPhone to WP7 stuff he's been doing? ... check it out... it's pretty darn cool!
Yet Another Podcast Show #3 – John Papa on MVVM and Patterns: Jesse Liberty also has his latest 'YAP-Cast' up ... and he's talking with John Papa about MVVM and patterns... and you can also call in with comments about the YAPCasts...
Trivia: Application Bar Icon and Color: Kirupa Chinnathambi continues with his WP7 Application Bar icon discussion with an explanation of why your icons should be white with a transparent background.
Designing Windows Phone 7 Applications: Alex Knight has a great post up on Design considerations when approaching development of a WP7 app... if you're like me, you need all the help in that area you can get :)
Binding HTML to the Web Browser Control: Nigel Sampson shows how to bind HTML to the Browser control using dependency properties, and we're talking WP7 here...