Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2010 -- #973

In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Colin Eberhardt, Andrea Boschin, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Andrew Tokeley, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), and Martin Krüger.


Above the Fold:

Silverlight: "Better Silverlight 4.0 Installation and Upgrade Experience"
Andrew Tokeley

"Developing a Lookless Silverlight Gauge Control (part 2)"
Colin Eberhardt
WP7: "31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #21: Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone"
Jeff Blankenburg
Lightswitch: "Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part–1)"
Kunal Chowdhury


From SilverlightCream.com:

fingerpaint – a little wp7 paint app
Sigurd Snørteland knocked together this WP7 app "in 2 hours" ... a cool little paint program... I love the paint bucket concept...
Developing a Lookless Silverlight Gauge Control (part 2)
Colin Eberhardt revists his Lookless Silverlight Gauge Control today with some really stunning templates for it... a radial guage and a 'bullet graph' ... just too cool!
Paging WCF Ria Services entities in Model-View-ViewModel applications
Andrea Boschin has a post up today at SilverlightShow discussing how to use a custom PagedDataSource in MVVM applications.
Yet Another Podcast – Show #8 – Firefly Part 2
Boy, Jesse Liberty is pushing these Yet Another Podcast shows out! ... this one is part 2 of discussion with the Firefly folks about iPhone vs WP7 development.
Architecting WP7 - Part 6 of 10: Loosely Coupled Messaging
Shawn Wildermuth is back with Day number 6 of two-weeks of Architecting WP7. Today he's discussing Messaging, and he doesn't mean SMS or IM :)
Better Silverlight 4.0 Installation and Upgrade Experience
I found this post by Andrew Tokeley via Mike Taulty's blog, and wow... what a great post this is on the Install and Upgrade Experience for Silverlight 4 ... thanks Andrew, and Mike!
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #20: Map Control
I must be in the 'sweet spot' tonight, because I caught Jeff Blankenburg with not only today's post, but also tomorrows :) ... todays post is all about the map control -- in his WP7 trek of course
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #21: Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone
And Jeff Blankenburg's post for tomorrow is all about the Silverlight Toolkit for WP7... think you know what all is in there? ... check out Jeff's post.
Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part–1)
Kunal Chowdhury has two posts up... first this one which is an introduction to LightSwitch... from the beginning to a running database app.
Simplest way to Create a Non-Movable Silverlight Child Window
Kunal Chowdhury's second post is about crafting a child window that can't move from it's initial position... bunches of Blend goodness in this post.
FunWithArcs UserControl - design study of a navigation control
Martin Krüger has a UserControl up that is just a bit of fun with the Arc in Blend... drag/drop, resize, flyout panels... come up with a use for it and let Martin know :)


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