Silverlight Cream for June 03, 2011 -- #1099

June 3, 2011 · 2 min read
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Nitya Ravi, Beth Massi, Xpert360, Andrea Boschin, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and John Papa.RSSImage

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:"Managing Resources with Reactive Extensions"
Jesse Liberty
WP7:"New Addition to Windows Phone Quickstarts- Pivot and Panorama Controls"
Nitya Ravi

Jesse Liberty Shoutouts:

Jeremy Likness has his materials posted for his

Koen Zwikstra has an update to his excellent Document Toolkit:

Beth Massi has a great set of links posted for if you have not done so yet

From:

Kunal Chowdhury is continuing his WP7.1 tutorial series with this post on the Application Bar, and creates an app to demonstrate using it.

Kunal Chowdhury's latest is number 5 in his Mango series, with 12 design guidelines and tips for the Application Bar

Nitya Ravi posted about a new quickstart added to the WP7 quickstarts... Panorama and Pivot Controls... the link is in this short post.

Beth Massi's latest post is an advanced LightSwitch Development tutorial... that she demonstrated at TechEd.

Xpert360 has part 10 of his PivotViewer series up... he's showing how to manipulate the control's ViewState and progress the range for a target datetime facet.

Andrea Boschin has a new post at SilverlightShow on signing XAPs... he discusses signing XAPs inside Visual Studio and Signing them manually

WindowsPhoneGeek jumps into Blend hard with this tutorial on building a WP7.1 app without writing a line of code... seriously!

Jesse Liberty has another Rx post up... discussing managing resources and how to more elegantly clean up after Rx.

Continuing his 'Mango from Scratch' series, Jesse Liberty has a nice discussion of Secondary tiles... part 1 of a series on this, and in this post he's focusing on creating the secondary tiles

John Papa has Silverlight TV number 75 on-site and he's got Susan Todd on-deck for a discussion of UX Testing and improving the UX of your apps.

Stay in the 'Light!

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