Silverlight Cream for November 08, 2011 -- #1165

November 8, 2011 · 2 min read
In this Issue: Brian Noyes, Michael Crump, WindowsPhoneGeek, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, Kunal Chowdhury, and Beth Massi.RSSImage

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:"Working with Prism 4 Part 1: Getting Started"
Brian Noyes
WP7:"Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit Tile Control"
WindowsPhoneGeek
LightSwitch:"How to Connect to and Diagram your SQL Express Database in Visual Studio LightSwitch"
Beth Massi

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest is up

Michael Washington's latest is up

From:

Brian Noyes has a series starting at SilverlightShow about Prism 4... this is the first one, so a good time to jump in and pick up on an intro and basic info about Prism plus building your first Prism app.

Michael Crump has Part 5 of his 10-part Silverlight 5 investigation up at SilverlightShow talking about all the various text features added in Silverlight 5 Beta: Text Tracking and Leading, Linked and MultiColumn, OpenType, etc.

WindowsPhoneGeek takes on the Tile control from the Coding4Fun toolkit... as usual, great tutorial... diagrams, code, explanation

Erno de Weerd has Part 2 of his trilogy and he's trying to beat David Anson for the long title record:)... in this episode, he's adding in cloud storage to the mix in a 35-step tutorial.

Jesse Liberty's talking about background Audio... and no not the Muzak in the elevator (do they still have that?)... he's tlking about the WP7.1 BackgroundAudioPlayer

Derik Whittaker shows off the ToggleSwitch for WinRT/Metro... not a lot to be said about it, but he says it all:)

Sumit Dutta has Part 19! of his WP7 series up... talking today about getting a phone number from the directory using the PhoneNumberChooserTask

Asim Sajjad shows how to make the Context Menu ViewModel friendly in this short tutorial.

Dhananjay Kumar's latest WP7 post is explaining how to make a call programmatically using the PhoneCallTask launcher.

Kunal Chowdhury has a 3-part tutorial series on Silverlight Navigation up. This is the first in the series, and he hits the basics... what constitutes a Page, and how to get started with the navigation framework.

Beth Massi's latest LightSwitch post is on using the Data Designer to easily crete and model database tables... during development this is in SQL Express, but can be deployed to most SQL server db you like

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This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Dave Campbell

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