Silverlight Cream for January 25, 2011 -- #1035

January 25, 2011 · 2 min read
In this Issue: Steve Wortham, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Martin Krüger, Joe McBride, Dan Wahlin, Walter Ferrari, Page Brooks, Deborah Kurata, WindowsPhoneGeek, Andrew Byrne, and Andrea Boschin.RSSImage

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:"Clipping to Bounds with Geometries and Attached Behaviors"
Page Brooks
WP7:"Tasks: Launchers and Choosers–Windows Phone From Scratch #22"
Jesse Liberty
Expression Blend:"Remove Transformation from shapes in Blend"
Andrea Boschin

From:

Steve Wortham's post is one of culling information from the web on optimizing your XAP file... 4 good solid tips here, and a couple tools as well.

Jesse Liberty has two parts up on Launchers and Choosers in his Windows Phone From Scratch series. This number 22 is discussing what launchers & choosers are all about and codes up a phone number chooser

In part 2, Jesse Liberty builds up a Launcher to launch an SMS service, and ends up less code and a shorter post than the chooser post.

Martin Krüger has continued his quest in Silverlight 4 for a perfect Magnifying Glass... and dang... this one looks good... of course his code is available in the Expression Gallery.

Joe McBride is discussing WCF REST APIs and has created a SimpleHttpClient that can be used in Silverlight to access a WCF Web API... check it out on CodePlex.

Dan Wahlin has Part 2 of his series on migrating a Silverlight app to WP7. Dan's talking about the Pivot control, Navigation, and MVVM... and you can download the source for his Amazon Album Viewer app.

Walter Ferrari has part 2 of his Sharepoint/Silverlight tutorial series up at SilverlightSHow. This episode investigates the possibility of a Sharepoint 'navigator' in Silverlight.

Page Brooks is back after his awesome 'Radar' control with this one on clipping the contents of a rectangular panel by a bounding ellipse... but what if you don't know the dimensions??

Deborah Kurata continues with populating a datagrid in Silverlight... but this time around, she's doing dynamic columns in the grid... oh, and MVVM too.

WindowsPhoneGeek checks out the TimeSpanPicker control from the Coding4Fun Toolkit... how to set it up, properties, styling, plus sample code.

Andrew Byrne has a post up at WindowsPhoneGeek on Testing your WP7 app... what to look for before kicking it out the door to the marketplace... all good information.

Andrea Boschin has some Expression Blend pointers about rotated elements and the XAML that's produced. I've seen a bunch of this sort of thing in my xaml, and will have to give Andrea's ideas a try.

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This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Dave Campbell

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