| In this Issue: Michael Washington, Michael Crump(-2-), Gill Cleeren, Peter Kuhn, John Papa(-2-), Nigel Sampson, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-). |  |
Above the Fold:
| Silverlight: | "Application Events in Silverlight" Gill Cleeren |
| WP7: | "Creating a delete animation using Expression Blend" Nigel Sampson |
| Lightswitch: | "It Is Easy To Display Counts And Percentages In LightSwitch" Michael Washington |
Shoutouts:
John Papa has a 2-part series up on rebuilding his blog in Orchard... Part 1:, and Part 2:
Not Silverlight, but just so cool... you've heard of and used the lorem ipsum sites, now how about one for images... lorempixum
From:
Michael Washington's latest Lightswitch post is up and he's demonstrating displaying aggregated data and percentages.
Michael Crump has an interesting post up demonstrating using XNA MessageBoxes in your WP7 Silverlight app to get more than OK and Cancel on them.
Michael Crump lists his 'best of' free goodies for WP7 development... if you're currently building WP7 apps, hopefully there are no surprises in there, but it's good to see them all listed in one place.
Gill Cleeren has a post up at SilverlightShow on Application Events in Silverlight... specifically Startup, Unhandled Exception, and Exit, and shows how to use these to make your app more robust.
Peter Kuhn has his latest tutorial in the XNA for Silverlight devs series up at SilverlightShow. In this episode, he's talking about the controls we all take for granted in Silverlight... what about in XNA??
If you couldn't make it to MIX11, or even if you could and did not go to the bootcamps... John Papa has his slides and MVVM Demo up for the 3.5 hour Silverlight bootcamp he and Mike Taulty did... see... good things come to those who wait:)
Joby Joy joins John Papa on Silverlight TV episode number 69 to discuss design and UX lessons learned building WP7 apps you're probably running on your device.
Nigel Sampson has a nice tutorial up showing how to create a delete animation in Blend like the delete email one... nice and easy, and simple to tweak to your liking
Jesse Liberty's next "Yet Another Podcast" is up, and he's talking to Kent Quirk about computer, phone, and on-line games.
Next Jesse Liberty has a post up about one of the coolest features of Silverlight 5 Beta -- breakpoints in XAML!... for me, this is definitely FTW
WindowsPhoneGeek has the last tutorial in his series on buildng a Custom WP7 Validation Controlup... this one talks about Custom Validation Rules and how to integrate them into the previously-created control. has the last tutorial in his series on buildng a Custom WP7 Validation Controlup... this one talks about Custom Validation Rules and how to integrate them into the previously-created control.
WindowsPhoneGeek's next post introduces a series on WP7 Animations 'In Depth'... first up an intro on getting started in animation with WP7... storyboard timelines, basic implementation, different technicques, and all the source.
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