Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2011 -- #1152

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Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2011 -- #1152

In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Dennis Doomen, Lazar Nikolov, András Velvárt, Rudi Grobler, Jeremy Likness, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Ollie Riches, Kunal Chowdhury, and Beth Massi.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 3 - Adding wind effect" Lazar Nikolov
WP7:	"Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap" Colin Eberhardt
LightSwitch:	"LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–September" Beth Massi
Metro:	"Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 3" Derik Whittaker

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up

SilverlightShow's Top 5 from last week is up: SilverlightShow for Sept 19 - 25, 2011

From SilverlightCream.com:

Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap: Colin Eberhardt is always finding fund things to do... check out this HTML5 WP7 app ... no really... and the basis to all this is PhoneGap now available for WP7
Silverlight Cookbook: Switching to another IoC Framework: An avowed Unity guy, Dennis Doomen takes a good look at Autofac and gives a detailed comparison/breakdown
Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 3 - Adding wind effect: Lazar Nikolov has part 3 of his Rain Simulation for Silverlight up at SilverlightShow... adding in wind effects this time... and don't forget to check out his demo page... that rain is really coming down!
SurfCube on Mango Part 5 - Getting email addresses for Beta testers: András Velvárt has Part 5 of his SurfCube app discussion up... not a Silverlight post, but a VB Macro to pull out all the emails you've received from users... quite useful for sending out notices to the people that have been so nice as to write
WP7 TombstoneHelper: Rudi Grobler has a very nice post up on what you should save when you get tombstoned... where to save it, and when... and then helper methods to do the saving
The Top 10 Over-Engineering Mistakes in Silverlight Applications: Jeremy Likness's got a great top 10 list of mistakes you can make in your Silverlight app... and I'm not admitting which are in mine :)
Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 3: Part 3 of Derik Whittaker's post about enabling Search on your Metro app is up... in this one he takes a look at how your app can provide context sensitive suggestions to the search panel
WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 5 - Defining default style template: Morten Nielsen's latest in his Silverlight/WinRT series is up and he's discussing not a Silverlight difference this time but a WPF difference... definind the default style template
Part 15 - Windows Phone 7 Detect Theme: Sumit Dutta's episode 15 in his WP7 quest is on theme detection at runtime so you can set colors appropriately in your app
Validating Data During Navigation in DataFrom: Asim Sajjad demonstrates validating data during navigation to resolve the issue of users not filling in all the required data before proceeding
WP7Contrib: Criterion Factory - calculating a Route: Ollie Riches's latest post about WP7Contrib is this one on doing route searches ... they support multiple Crieterion Factory methods all depending on how much information you have
Solution for "The program can't start because MFPlat.dll is missing from your computer": Kunal Chowdhury has the solution for you if you're having trouble with the WP7 emulator complaining about MFPlat.dll
LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–September: Beth Massi is starting to do a post every month on the highlights of the month in LightSwitch... this post is her first and the list for this month