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In this Issue: Jonathan Marbutt, Peter Kuhn, Jesse Liberty, David Kelley, Phil Middlemiss, Jaime Rodriguez, Ramesh Sringeri, Sigurd Snørteland, and Jesse Bishop.

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Shoutouts:

Gavin Wignall has a very cool Pivot app up: Silverlight Pivot experiement using the American Presidents

Thanks everyone for the well-wishes on hitting 1,000 SilverlightCream posts. As you can see, I have every intention in the world to continue...

From SilverlightCream.com:

Introducing Opus Silverlight/WP7 UI framework

Jonathan Marbutt has a new Silverlight/WP7 framework up on Codeplex called Opus... this is an introductory post to the framework, and he says more detailed information will be forthcoming.

Attribute-based transient Tombstoning

Peter Kuhn has a post up on Tombstoning using a unique method of saving only some values to ISO when tombstoning...

Windows Phone From Scratch #8–Styles

Jesse Liberty has part 8 of his "Windows Phone from Scratch" series up. THis time out, he's talking about Styles. Open Blend, pull up a chair, and build along with Jesse.

Using the Visual State Manager

David Kelley has a post up describing how to use the Visual State Manager to your best benefit. No code or pictures, but great walkthrough of Creating a Control Template and customizing Visual States.

A Behavior for Remembering Settings

Phil Middlemiss' latest outing is a behavior that you can attach to a control and bind to a property. The behavior monitors that property and saves any changes to ISO... and of course when you re-run, it remembers that setting... too cool!

Working with GIF images in Windows Phone

Wanna use GIF images in your WP7 app? GIF you say? well.. Jaime Rodriguez has a run-down on some pretty cool image tools or libraries that actually allow that to work.

Using the Sterling database in your Windows Phone 7 App

Ramesh Sringeri has a post up about Jeremy Likness' Sterling database, and using it for WP7... this is more of an overview, but it is a good overview and well worth a read.

tweet search – one code, three mobile platforms (wp7, monodroid, monotouch)

Oh boy... Sigurd Snørteland has a good one up this time... one basic set of code, 3 UIs and he's got WP7, iPhone, and Android covered... all source, plus Presentation materials for a talk he gave on the subject.

Dynamic Theming in Silverlight with Implicit Styles (plus Custom Build Events)

Jesse Bishop has a very cool post up about dynamically setting or changing the visual theme of a Silverlight app at runtime.

Stay in the 'Light!

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