Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2011 -- #1137

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Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2011 -- #1137

In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Shawn Wildermuth, Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, Loek van den Ouweland, XAMLNinja, Ollie Riches(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, John Papa, Den Delimarsky, and Sumit Dutta.

Above the Fold:

WP7:	"Fun With New Live Tile API" Shawn Wildermuth
Expression Blend:	"Icons or other visuals with XAML instead of bitmaps"

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

Gill Cleeren posted his SilverlightShow Advanced Silverlight 5 webinar files

From SilverlightCream.com:

Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: HttpWebRequest: Andrea Boschin has a new post up at SilverlightShow that is a continuation of his series there... this one is all about Data Access in WP7 and HttpWebRequest
Fun With New Live Tile API: Shawn Wildermuth is cranking out posts lately, so bookmark his blog! ... this latest is on the Live Tile API in WP7.1 that lets you not only update the tile for your app, but your app can create multiple Live Tiles.
How to Convert a Rectangle to a Path Control using Expression Blend?: Kunal Chowdhury has an Expression Blend tutorial up showing how to convert a Rectangle or Ellipse control to a Path control
Windows Phone 7 Iconography: Peter Kuhn's latest post at SilverlightShow is a discussion of the icon guidelines and specifications for Windows Phone apps
Icons or other visuals with XAML instead of bitmaps: In this quick Blend tutorial, Loek van den Ouweland shows how to create vector images in xaml using a button template as a starting point.
WP7Contrib – Tombstoning Part II The View Model: XAMLNinja has part 2 of his series on Tombstoning up... and that's using the WP7 Contrib wrappers, and in this post is talking about the part the ViewModel takes in this whole process
WP7Contrib: Bing Maps REST Services Wrapper - Criterion Factory: Ollie Riches has a a new series starting about 'Criterion Factory' in WP7 Contrib ... a Bing Maps REST Services Wrapper... first up is this post showing how it's normally addressed.
WP7Contrib: Criterion Factory - Location by search by latitude & longitude: Ollie Riches then follows up with the real first post talking about the Criterion Factory and begins with the task of searching for a location using latitude and longitude
Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part2: Data Binding: In this second post about the HubTile control in the new WP Toolkit, WindowsPhoneGeek is talking about databinding the HubTile.
Silverlight TV 83: Using Wireframes to Visually Communicate a Windows Phone Experience: John Papa chats with Corrina Black on the last Silverlight TV episode before BUILD... Corrina talks through wireframing and its importance to the creative process for WP7 apps.
How to get WP7-sized Bing wallpapers: Den Delimarsky posted some cool information about the images Bing posts... there's an official dedicated web service for downloading the images up to 6 days back
Part 1 - Windows Phone 7: Sumit Dutta has a series going on WP7 development... this is the first post... walks you through the steps to build your first simple app, code included.