Silverlight Cream for July 31, 2011 -- #1123

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Silverlight Cream for July 31, 2011 -- #1123

In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), XAMLNinja, Jonathan Marbutt, Rob Eisenberg, Jeremy Likness, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Derik Whittaker.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Reflection, Lambda, and Expression Magic" Jeremy Likness
WP7:	"Working with Live Tiles in WP7 Mango–Creating, Updating and Deleting them" Derik Whittaker
LightSwitch:	"Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Released - Download the Final Version Now" Kunal Chowdhury

Shoutouts:

Beth Massi has a link post up for lots of good LightSwitch resources: CodeCast: Launch of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011

From SilverlightCream.com:

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Released - Download the Final Version Now: Kunal Chowdhury has a really complete list of LightSwitch information up... Where to get it, how much it costs, system requirements, etc.
How to Communicate between two Local Silverlight Applications?: Kunal Chowdhury also has a post up describing communication between two Silverlight applications (locallly that is).
WP7Contrib – Bing Service Wrapper Part II – Route: XAMLNinja posted part 2 of his Bing Service Wrapper series for WP7 ... highlighting what the WP7 Contrib project will do for you. This time out he's talking about the Route Service.
Building an RSS Reader with WP7/MVVM/Mango: Jonathan Marbutt has the video up of a session he did on WP7, MVVM and some WP7.1 features creating an RSS Reader
Caliburn.Micro v1.2 RTW and Nuget Feature Packages!: Rob Eisenberg announced the release of Caliburn.Micro V1.2 and it's available via Nuget... he also deployed what he's calling "Feature Packages" ... you can pick and choose the pieces of Caliburn.Micro you want to use without having dependencies on the other parts... very nice!
Reflection, Lambda, and Expression Magic: Jeremy Likness takes an excursion through Reflection and Lambda to produce some validation 'magic' of his own.
Yet Another Podcast #44–Charles Petzold: Jesse Liberty's Yet Another Podcast number 44 is with Charles Petzold ... on a personal note, if it were not for Charles' "Programming Windows" book back in Windows 3.1 days, I may still not know what I am doing writing flight software... so that's good for all of us :)
Windows Phone Toolkit AutoCompleteBox: Jesse Liberty also has a post up talking about the AutoCompleteBox in the Windows Phone Toolkit... external links and a buncha code to help out in our learning.
Working with Live Tiles in WP7 Mango–Creating, Updating and Deleting them: Derik Whittaker has a post up that's all about the new Live Tiles in WP7.1 ... not only code examples of creating them, but also updating and deleting them.