Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2011 -- #1066

March 27, 2011 · 2 min read
In this Issue: Michael Wolf, Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury, Benjamin Roux, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Jeff Prosise(-2-), Jeremy Likness, and Beth Massi.RSSImage

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:"Useful Value Converters"
Nigel Sampson
WP7:"A Smarter TextBlock Control for WP7"
Michael Wolf
More WP7:"Metro In Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations"
Colin Eberhardt

From:

Michael Wolf's latest post is about a "Smart" textbox for WP7, meaning if it looks like a phone number, it dials, if it looks like a web link it browses... stick with me here... he's not kidding... and he gives up 'the goods' as well... awesome, Michael!

Colin Eberhardt has part 2 of his "Metro In Motion" posts up for WP7... this is on 'Peel' animations... too cool... just look at the screen shots and you'll understand... it's something the native apps do.

Kunal Chowdhury's latest post is on Lightswitch and hooking up to an external datasource, such as SQL Server... links to get the bits and setup your environment

[Silverlight] How to choose the webcam resolution

Benjamin Roux has a generic Silverlight/Webcam post up... a quicky on setting the resolution of the webcam.

Nigel Sampson has a post up that'll help streamline your xaml by using Styles and Resources... if you're not familiar with that... Nigel can help.

Not just for WP7 or even Silverlight, Nigel Sampson's next post is about Value Converters that also apply to WPF... and he's got some great take-away samples up there... Bitmap Image, Boolean to Visibility, Color to Brush, etc.... all good stuff.

I had apparently been following a group blog and not Jeff Prosise's own... and now have a bunch of WP7 goodness to catch up with... first up is this Part 4 of a series on responding to touch input on WP7... this 4th is using the GestureListener class.

In his next post, Jeff Prosise has a great tutorial up that's all about the WP7 accelerometer... great diagrams and explanation, plus code examples and external links.

Jeremy Likness's Part 14 on his Jounce discussion is all about using MEF to help create non-shared views and view models... good discussion, even if you're not using Jounce yet.

Beth Massi has a great post up that is a rollup of Lightswitch Beta 2 content that's been reviewed by the team... all categorized and linked up ready to be clicked!

Stay in the 'Light!

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