Silverlight Cream for August 14, 2011 -- #1131

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Silverlight Cream for August 14, 2011 -- #1131

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Michael Crump, Nigel Sampson, Ben Gracewood, Jeremy Likness, Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, Morten Nielsen(-2-), and Alex Sorokoletov.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Using Attribute Validation in Silverlight with WCF RIA Services Example" Jeremy Likness
WP7:	"SurfCube on Mango Part 3–Share on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn" András Velvárt
LightSwitch:	"How To Create a Simple Control Extension (Or How To Make LightSwitch Controls You Can Sell)" Michael Washington

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's Latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

From SilverlightCream.com:

How To Create a Simple Control Extension (Or How To Make LightSwitch Controls You Can Sell): Michael Washington's latest post is about turning your dev system into a profit center by creating LightSwitch Controls for fun and profit... and proceeds to build one in this tutorial.
Windows Phone Pivot and loading content: Andrej Tozon references Jeff Wilcox's MIX10 talk and explains why your Pivots seem to be loading up ahead of time even though they're purported to be lazy loading.
SurfCube on Mango Part 3–Share on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn: András Velvárt continues his sharing of tips from his ragingly-famous SurfCube application in this part 3 post talking about the capability to share on social media sites from the application.
2 Good Reasons to update to the latest Mango Beta 2 Refresh Update: Michael Crump gives two compelling reasons to update to the latest WP7.1 Beta 2 refresh, and then discusses in detail the ScreenShot tool and Marketplace Test Kit
Using on View Ready in Caliburn Micro: Nigel Sampson has a post up showing how to use Caliburn.Micro's new OnViewReady to invoke an action of the same name passing in the view and satisfying best practice suggestions from Microsoft in the process.
WP7 Background Loading with Caliburn and Coroutines: I got this link from to a post by Ben Gracewood from Nigel's post... a great article on Caliburn.Micro and coroutines, with comments by Rob Eisenberg himself.
Using Attribute Validation in Silverlight with WCF RIA Services Example: In this post on Attribute Validation, Jeremy Likness uses WCF RIA services because he gets lots of requests for examples using it.
Another new Windows Phone 7 Guide video – using your phone as a storage device: Den Delimarsky's latest video is to accompany his post on this subject and is about using a local Isolated Storage Explorer on a WP7 device.
WP7 Icons: Up to 105: Austin Andrews gives us 34 more WP7 icons, 6 of which are from twitter suggestions, so keep those suggestions coming!
WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 8 - Reusing code in Visual Studio #1: Morten Nielsen starts a series in a series talking about setting up VS to be able to do code reuse between Silverlight and WPF in his SL vs WPF series
WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 9 - Reusing code in Visual Studio #2: In his 2nd of the Reusing code in VS series inside his SL vs WPF series, Morten Nielsen has this one on linked resource files, and why it's a problem in WPF
Windows Phone 7.0 handling text entry screens and keyboard layouts: Alex Sorokoletov's latest post is on the fun 'puzzle' of putting a textbox on the bottom of a WP7 screen, even if the on-screen keyboard is showing.