Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2010 -- #998

In this Issue: Gill Cleeren, Peter Kuhn, Erik Mork, Jesse Liberty, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Michael Crump, Brad Tutterow, Jay Kimble(-2-), and Rob Tiffany.


Above the Fold:

Silverlight: "Part 1 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers"
Michael Crump
WP7: "Using the Pivot Control"
Kirupa Chinnathambi


Shoutouts:

The SilverlightShow folks have a good webinar series going. The next one is December 15th: Building a Silverlight 4 Application End-to-end with Gill Cleeren.


From SilverlightCream.com:

Using RESTful services from Silverlight
Gill Cleeren has a new post up at SilverlightShow about Silverlight and Webservices, and in particular RESTful services... good info about services in general leading up to the main event.
Unlocking a Windows Phone 7 device for development
Peter Kuhn describes the elusive yet simple act of registering a WP7 device for development.
Show 111: Silverlight Redemption
Erik Mork and Co. have their latest Podcast up and are talking about the upcoming Firestarter and their Portland->Redmond wifi-equipped busride... too cool, guys!
Yet Another Podcast #15 – Ian Griffiths
Falling into the not necessarily Silverlight category is Jesse Liberty's latest "Yet Another Podcast" interviewing Ian Griffiths... all good subjects and information though... check it out!
Using the Pivot Control
Kirupa Chinnathambi waxes poetic on the Pivot Control on WP7... beginning with a video demo then moving into how to use it via Blend.
Part 1 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers.
Michael Crump has part 1 of a 4-parter up that is a series of entries that answer 3 questions: 1) What is it? 2) Why do I care? and 3) How do I do it? ... good stuff, even if you've been at this a while.
WP7 Development Tip of the Day: Live Tiles that use the system theme accent color
Brad Tutterow shows how to implement your icons so they pick up the WP7 theme like the default ones do.
Service-Related APIs and Synchronous/Asynchronous Calls
Jay Kimble has a two-parter up on Service Call Guidance and Asynchronous callbackmethods... a bit of a rant followed by guidance... sorta like the stick and carrot :)
Service-Related APIs and Synchronous/Asynchronous Calls Part 2
In the 2nd post, Jay Kimble is showing how to implement Asynchronous calls from our existing Synchronous calls.
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Network Awareness
Rob Tiffany is talking about Network Awareness and WP7 and jumps right into a tutorial on how to deal with the situaion, and builds out a nice little app in the process.


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