Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2011 -- #1140

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Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2011 -- #1140

In this Issue: Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-), Andrea Boschin, Peter Kuhn, Shawn Wildermuth, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Pete Vickers, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Chad Campbell, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, and David Kelley.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight 5 : Low-Latency Sound Effects" Vikram Pendse
WP7:	"Windows Phone codenamed "Mango" Training Course" Alex Golesh

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

My friends at SilverlightShow posted their top 5 for last week: SilverlightShow for August 22 - 28, 2011

Congratulations go out to David Kelley: David J Kelley Named Phone 7 Developer Hero of the Week

From SilverlightCream.com:

Windows Phone codenamed "Mango" Training Course: Alex Golesh has just completed a WP7.1 Training Course that is being made available free by Microsoft.
Get to Windows Phone Mango #1: From XNA to SLXNA: Alex Golesh also released a training Video on migrating to WP7.1 and taking advantage of it's capabilities ... project included on this one too, and lots of external links
Get to Windows Phone Mango #2: Adding FAS to XNA: Alex Golesh has a 2nd video in this series as well discussing Fast Application Switching.... once again, lots of links and code
Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Web Services: Andrea Boschin's latest post shows how how to consume a WCF Web Service from Windows Phone 7 and how to configure both the client and server side.
Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Cheat Sheet: Peter Kuhn has a great cheat-sheet up for WP7 App Certification. The post discuses some of the points, and the cheat sheetis a download at the end.
More on Updating Apps for Mango: Shawn Wildermuth shares some additional insight on updating your apps to WP7.1 (or not)
Windows Phone Toolkit PhoneTextBox in depth: WindowsPhoneGeek checks out the new Toolkit PhoneTextBox in detail... great diagrams, description, and a project to go home with.
How to bind a Windows Phone control Event to a Command using MVVM Light: WindowsPhoneGeek then turns around and uses that control and binds an event from it to a command using Laurent Bugnion's MVVMLight.
Building a Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 3 of 3: Jesse Liberty continues with part 3 of the Calculator he's building in a series of tutorials. This is the final episode in this series and he's adding button click sounds.
FREE GUI interface for the Isolated Storage Explorer Tool - GUI Iset: Pete Vickers is talking about the ISO Explorer tool that comes with the WP7.1 SDK, and announces a free GUI interface for that tool named GUI Iset
Part 4 - Windows Phone 7 Low Level Touch: Part 4 of Sumit Dutta's excursion through WP7 coding is on touch, and specifically low level touch... check out the post to find out what he's talking about.
Splash Screen in Silverlight 4: Asim Sajjad has a post up discussing custom splash screens for Silverlight apps. His example is small, but does the job and leads you in the directions you need... source included
Newline Character in XAML: Chad Campbell has a quick tip up on stuffing a newline character (what I still call a carriage-return/line-feed) into XAML... it's trickier than you might think!
Silverlight 5 : Low-Latency Sound Effects: Vikram Pendse dips into the XNA library with Silverlight 5 Beta and talks about Low-Latency Sound Effects... cool, some SL5B for a change :)
3 Ways to update the Application Tile Content in Mango: Michael Crump's latest post is all about the Application Tiles in WP7.1, starting off with definitions for the various properties that can be modified.
29 Ways to make your wp7 app killer and make money: David Kelley is sharing 29 of his secrets that have made him so successful in the WP7 app arena