Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2011 -- #1069

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Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2011 -- #1069

In this Issue: John Papa, Rudi Grobler, Michael Washington, Jeff Prosise(-2-), Xianzhong Zhu, Nigel Sampson, Martin Krüger, WindowsPhoneGeek, Vinit Yadav, András Velvárt, and Alex Sorokoletov.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Response.MVVM is now available via NuGet!" András Velvárt
WP7:	"BounceBall - XNA Farseer Magic" Vinit Yadav
Lightswitch:	"LightSwitch Online Ordering System" Michael Washington

Shoutouts:

Cigdem Patlak has a post up about the ROCK! event beginning next weekend in LA: Microsoft Rock! Events in SoCal

ESRI posted about the "Light Up the Night Silverlight Code Challenge Lighting Up the Night at the 2011 Developer Summit ... check out the winning apps and grab the source... congrats to the winners!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight TV 68: Worlds are Colliding! New Silverlight Web Parts for Sharepoint: John Papa has Silverlight TV number 68 up and is joined by Paul Stubbs discussing new features the Sharepoint team have released for Visual Studio to make Silverlight development easier... huh? -- check it out.
Panorama Tombstone Caveat: Rudi Grobler's latest post discusses with tombstoning the panorama control... looks like this might be a great example of the issue Peter Torr posted a workaround for... which Rudi lists near the bottom also.
LightSwitch Online Ordering System: Michael Washington has a humongous Lightswitch tutorial up at Code Project... an end-to-end Lightswitch application in great detail... huge app, great tutorial.
Tombstoning Panorama Controls in Silverlight for Windows Phone: In his previous post, Jeff Prosise covered Tombstoning with the Pivot control... this time out it's the Panorama he's tombstoning, and with the Panorama there are also some issues, and of course he has a work-around.
Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #3: Jeff Prosise's next post is number 3 in his WP7 programming tip series and is all about the application bar and how to disable a button... it's not like you might think!
Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Programming - Navigation between Pages: Xianzhong Zhu posted part 2 of his WP7 programming series at DotNetSlackers about WP7 Navigation and passing data between pages... nice long fact, code, and image filled tutorial.
Windows Phone 7 Status Indicator Control: Nigel Sampson has a post up about a Status control for WP7 that mimics the 'loading' one like for email... cool!
Example of a circular progress bar: Martin Krüger has another of his fun controls up in the Expression Gallery... a very cool circular progress bar... not much description, but hey... if it works and you get the source... what the heck!
Silverlight for WP7 Toolkit TiltEffect in depth: WindowsPhoneGeek's latest is examining the TiltEffect that comes with the WP7 toolkit... covered in the very complete style you've come to expect from him... code, screenshots, sample app, and even a video demo
BounceBall - XNA Farseer Magic: Vinit Yadav has produced more of a WP7 lab than a tutorial... he's got an outstanding write-up for building a complete WP7 game in XNA using the Farseer Physics Engine... and lots of explanations and code.
Response.MVVM is now available via NuGet!: András Velvárt has done some updating to a behavior and action he introduced about a year ago, and has packaged them up in a NuGet package... using NuGet, search for Response.MVVM, and you'll get it... then check the post for more info... thanks Andras... see you in a week :)
Silverlight – ‘Save Image as’ behavior: Alex Sorokoletov has a quick post up and a useful behavior... 'SaveImageAs'... sample app and all the code...