Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2011 -- #1159

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Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2011 -- #1159

In this Issue: Michael Crump, Kevin Dockx, Ollie Riches, Shawn Wildermuth, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Joost van Shaik, Colin Eberhardt, Tony Champion, David Catuhe, Igor, Jeremy Likness, and Dhananjay Kumar.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"SL5 PivotViewer Custom DetailPaneStyle" Tony Champion
WP7:	"Taking screenshots with Windows Phone 7 applications using a video feed" Joost van Schaik
LightSwitch:	"“I Command You!” - LightSwitch Screen Commands Tips & Tricks" Beth Massi
Metro/WinRT/Windows8:	"WinRT Transitions – Creating Fast and Fluid Metro UIs" Colin Eberhardt

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

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

Tony Champion presented a WP7 talk at Device Developer SIG, and has his materials up: Designing for Windows Phone 7–D2SIG Talk

Koen Zwikstra had an announcement to make recently... Document Toolkit October 2011 Update

Eric Mork and Company have their 114th show up, and it is on Windows 8: Show 114: Thoughts on Windows 8

From SilverlightCream.com:

10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 2 of 10): Part 2 of Michael Crump's 10-part series on Silverlight 5 is up at SilverlightShow, and is on Ancestor Relative Source Binding and Implicit Data Templates
Authorization in Silverlight, part 1: Authorized navigation: Kevin Dockx has a series started at SilverlightShow on Authorization in Silverlight. This is the first post he describes the Custom Content Loader
WP7Contrib: URL shortening in a WP7 app: Ollie Riches's latest post is a WP7Contrib on talking about URL Shortening and how he wrote the shortener in 3 lines of code!
Confusion Around WP7.1 Periodic Agents: Shawn Wildermuth responds to queries about Periodic Agents after his last post, and tackles the major sticky points one at a time to help clear it up for all of us
Know About WP7 Page Orientation and Supported Orientations: Kunal Chowdhury is discussing Page Orientation in WP7... what it is, and how to figure out programmatically what is supported. Nice little demo with screenshots and code
“I Command You!” - LightSwitch Screen Commands Tips & Tricks: Beth Massi has a huge LightSwitch post up ... just check out that 2nd paragraph... "In this article I will show you:" and then lists 7 interesting features, all of which she explains in detail, starting with creating a command
Taking screenshots with Windows Phone 7 applications using a video feed: Joost van Schaik shows how you can enable users to take screenshots from inside the application, and then followed up with what became an Augmented Reality Photo shooter... check it out... cool stuff, Joost!
WinRT Transitions – Creating Fast and Fluid Metro UIs: Colin Eberhardt did a great series of posts on transitions for the WP7 device, and now looks like he's doing the same for WinRT beginning with this great WinRT transitions post, including the project download
SL5 PivotViewer Custom DetailPaneStyle: Tony Champion is back talking about PivotViewer again, this time in Silverlight 5 and one of the new API features: the ability to define a custom detail pane... including his personal touches on doing so
Discovering 3D rendering with C# and Direct3D 11: Not necessarily Silverlight, but quite cool, David Catuhe has a post up to get you jump-started in Direct3D 11... lots of write-up and sample code
Live face recognition on Windows Phone: Igor has a post up on Facial Recognition in WP7.1 using René Schulte's FaceLight from CodePlex. He talks through the app from the point of installing the package, and code listed.
Quick Tip: Design-Time Views for Regions: Jeremy Likness discusses the Region Management pattern and it's lack of design-time view, then shows a tweak that makes the experience much better
Code to Send SMS in Windows Phone 7: Dhananjay Kumar talks his way through the LauncherAPI for WP7, and how to work with SmsComposeTask