May 2011 Entries
In this Issue: Alex Golesh, Walter Ferrari, Kunal Chowdhury, Rob Eisenberg, Michael Crump(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Nigel Sampson. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "The ABC of streaming in Silverlight" Walter Ferrari WP7: "Switching between Windows Phone 7.1 Mango and 7.0 RTW developer tools and vice versa" WindowsPhoneGeek From SilverlightCream.com: Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Profiler” - Part 9 of 8) Alex Golesh risks overlowing his buffer with this Mango - What's New ......
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for May 23-29, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Entity Framework 4.1 Code First, Silverlight, and Shared Models with REST+JSON A Simple Physics Game using Silverlight and Farseer Engine Windows Phone 7 Mango - Sockets Using IIS Express to Secure Silverlight and WCF Applications Windows Phone 7 Mango - Silverlight and XNA integration Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in ......
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Roy Dallal, Jim Wightman, Kevin Hoffman, Levente Mihály, Peter Kuhn(-2-, -3-), René Schulte, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), John Papa. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Reactive Extensions–FromAsync" Jesse Liberty WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Mango - Sockets" Peter Kuhn Shoutouts: Kunal Chowdhury has a list up of all the Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) Features From SilverlightCream.com: Windows Phone 7 Jump Start with Mango - 1 - Creating a Hello World Application Kunal Chowdhury ......
In this Issue: Alex van Beek, René Schulte(-2-), Peter Kuhn, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-), Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-, -4-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Nigel Sampson, Jeremy Likness, and Paul Sheriff. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Entity Framework 4.1 Code First, Silverlight, and Shared Models with REST+JSON" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Silverlight/XNA Interoperability” - Part 7 of 8)" Alex Golesh LINQ: "LINQ Deferred Execution–Oops!" Jesse Liberty Shoutouts: My friends at ......
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for May 16-22, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: More good times for app developers? Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow Spying Silverlight app with SilverlightSpy - a must have tool C# Html Sanitizer for Windows Phone and Silverlight What’s New in Silverlight 5 – Performance and Other Improvements Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light ......
Looks like bloggers figured out I'd post the submittals first, because today I got hammered with posts. In this 2nd in a row Submittal-only Issue: Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-, -4-, -5-), René Schulte, Alex van Beek, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Rudi Grobler. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 Multiple Window Support" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Augmented Mango - SLARToolkit for Windows Phone" René Schulte WP7: "Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“New Sensors & Tooling Enhancements” - Part 3 of 8)" Alex Golesh ......
In this all submittal Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Rudi Grobler, Michael Washington(-2-, -3-, -4-), Victor Gaudioso. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to create a Rotating Banner" Victor Gaudioso WP7: "A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example" Colin Eberhardt Training: "Two Ways To Call LightSwitch From a Custom Silverlight Control" Michael Washington From SilverlightCream.com: A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example This is probably the best way to learn ......
In this Issue: Rudi Grobler(-2-), Michael Washington, Ashish Patil, Oren Gal(-2-), Andrea Boschin, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, John Papa, Mike Taulty, and Paul Sheriff. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Getting Driving Directions in a Silverlight Application" Oren Gal WP7: "Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Advanced Buy Now Implementation" WindowsPhoneGeek LightSwitch: "Using The Document Toolkit for LightSwitch" Michael Washington Shoutouts: SilverlightShow posted their top 5 articles ......
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for May 9-15, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: White Paper: Flex, Silverlight or HTML5? Time to decide… Why Windows Phone Will Beat Android Babylon Toolkit : a toolbox for developing 3D applications with Silverlight 5 Why Windows Phone 7 Mango really matters What Daniela Panfili learned designing her first Windows Phone 7 app Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light ......
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Joost van Schaik, Xpert360, Tony Champion, Paul Sheriff, Vangos Pterneas, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "Debugging Windows Phone 7 device network access with just a laptop" Joost van Schaik Training: "MVPs Chat It Up on Twitter - Tony Champion's Pivot of the results" Tony Champion From SilverlightCream.com: Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight ......
In this Issue: David Catuhe, Andrea Boschin, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Colin Eberhardt, Mike Ormond, Doug Rathbone, John Garland, Jesse Liberty, Mike Taulty, and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "ItemsControl from scratch to your own controls" Andrea Boschin WP7: "Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: Alan Cruz sent me a link to his Social Network site he's developed in Silverlight... this is another 'sign yourself up' thing... I did it, nothing bad happened :) ... Alan ......
It's already the 15th of May, and it's now time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream. Ground Rules I pick what posts are on the blog Only posts that go in the database are included The author has to appear in SC at least 4 of the 6 months considered I averaged the monthly posts and am only showing Authors with an average greater than 1. Here are the Top Posted Authors at Silverlight Cream for November 1, 2010 through April 30, 2011: It is my intention to post a ......
Sorry for the repost and also hosing over the results a while ago, but since it's been so long that I did one of these, I pooted the query. Original post: Wow...it's quite a bit past the first of May, and I realized I had not done the 'top posted' list for April. When I went to update the sproc that runs that code I realized I had not done the list for February either :( ... so let's do that one first... it's now time to recognize devs that have a large number of posts in Silverlight Cream for the ......
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Kunal Chowdhury, Mick Norman, Mike Hole, John Garland, Jeff Prosise, Jobi Joy, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Nigel Sampson, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Enhanced Touch Manipulations for Silverlight and Windows Phone" John Garland WP7: "Tile Maker" Mike Hole LightSwitch: "This Is How LightSwitch Does MVVM" Michael Washington From SilverlightCream.com: This Is How LightSwitch Does MVVM Michael Washington's latest LightSwitch post ......
If you're in Seattle or will be in Seattle, well ok ... actually Redmond, the 2nd week of June, and you've got some time and money to invest in your career, Alex Golesh announced a great opportunity. Alex is a Silverlight MVP, and way back in February of 2010, I saw the WP7 emulator running on his laptop at the MVP Summit... that means he's been involved since before they told all of us at the Summit that we were now WP7 devs! Lots (maybe all, for all I know) of the WP7 training you'll find at at ......
In this Issue: Morten Nielsen, Kunal Chowdhury, John Papa, Jesse Liberty, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Custom Cursors in Silverlight" Morten Nielsen WP7: "Coming in Mango–Sql Server CE" Jesse Liberty Silverlight 5 Beta: "Silverlight 5: Using the SoundEffect Class for Low-Latency Sound (and play WAV files in Silverlight)" Pete Brown Shoutouts: Khawar Yunus sent me this link to his app... I'm not going to tell you to make a login, but I did.. and the app is a pretty ......
In this Issue: Chris Rouw, Kevin Dockx(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Telerik Phone Team, Mike Taulty(-2-), Pete Brown, and András Velvárt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Locking and Unlocking controls in a Silverlight LOB Application" Chris Rouw WP7: "WP7 ToDo Lists App Built with RadControls" Telerik Phone Team Just too cool not to list: "Kinect + Bing Maps–the gestures" András Velvárt Shoutouts: The SilverlightShow folks sent me their top 5 from last week: SilverlightShow ......
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for May 2-8, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: How to Create a To-Do App for Windows Phone 7 Join a 3-day Online XNA Training for free! WP7 app designed for the ladies: Woman Calendar Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes – The Third Dimension Silverlight MVVM, WCF RIA Services Simple Sample Application Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light ......
In this almost entirely submittals Issue: Andrea Boschin, Manas Patnaik, Alex van Beek, Michael Washington, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-), Michael Crump, Richard Waddell, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, Alexandra Rusina, and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight 5 Beta: "Silverlight 5: Debugging Bindings with Xaml Breakpoints" Pete Brown Silverlight: "Dynamic Types to Simplify Property Change Notification in Silverlight 4 and 5" Jeremy Likness LightSwitch: "Using The LightSwitch Filter Extension" Michael ......
In this Issue: Pete Brown, Victor Gaudioso, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, John Papa, David Anson, Mike Taulty(-2-), Lazar Nikolov, Alex Knight, Deborah Kurata, and Michael Washington. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 2 - Optimization" Lazar Nikolov WP7: "Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Implementation and Best Practices" WindowsPhoneGeek Lightswitch: "LightSwitch: 10 Times As Many Silverlight Developers As Today" Michael Washington ......
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, David Anson, Rob Tiffany, Paul Sheriff, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Andrea Boschin. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Performance Optimization of Silverlight Applications using Visual Studio 2010 SP1" Jeremy Likness WP7: "The Reactive Snake for Windows Phone 7" Andrea Boschin From SilverlightCream.com: Step-by-Step Using ImplicitDataType in Silverlight 5 Beta Kunal Chowdhury has a good tutorial up on Silverlight 5 Beta's ImplicitDataType ......
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Roy Dallal, Colin Eberhardt, Deborah Kurata, David Anson, Mike Taulty(-2-), Jesse Liberty, and Jeremy Likness. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications" David Anson WP7: "Metro In Motion Part #4 – Tilt Effect" Colin Eberhardt Shoutouts: John Papa has a 3rd part up on his blog conversion to Orchard CMS: Walking Through the Orchard Part 3 - ......
In this Issue: René Schulte(-2-), John Papa(-2-), Jeremy Likness(-2-), Andy Beaulieu, Arik Poznanski, Page Brooks, Deborah Kurata(-2-), Microsoft, and Jesse Liberty. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "WriteableBitmapEx goes NuGet" René Schulte WP7: "Windows Phone Developer Resources" Microsoft Shoutouts: SilverlightShow posted their top 5 from last week: SilverlightShow for April 25-May 01, 2011 Koen Zwikstra has announced an update of Silverlight Spy... read his note about Silverlight 5 Beta... Silverlight ......
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for April 25 - May 1, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: XNA for Windows Phone 7: a 3-day Online Training Course MIX11 videos mass download tool Best of FREE Frameworks, Tools and Controls for Windows Phone 7 ViewModel INotifyPropertyChanged Code Generation MIX11 Silverlight Bootcamp Slides and MVVM Demo Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light ......
In this Issue: David Catuhe, Paul Sheriff, Bill Steele, Den Delimarsky, Bill Burrows, Doug Rathbone, Matthias Shapiro, Jason Alderman, Jessica Fosler, John Garland, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, and Jeff Prosise. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5’s New and Improved Threading Architecture" Jeff Prosise WP7: "Silverlight Game Development webcasts" Bill Steele Shoutouts: Jesse Liberty has a short post up describing some of the features we can expect with the Tooling in Mango From SilverlightCream.com: ......