Silverlight Cream for November 27, 2011 -- #1176

November 27, 2011 · 1 min read
In this Issue: Matt Eland, Parag Joshi, Jerrel Blankenship, and Joost van Schaik.RSSImage

Above the Fold:

WP7:"Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors"
Joost van Schaik

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest is up

Michael Washington's latest is up

From:

Matt Eland takes the reigns of Jeff's blog for Day 22 and is talking about App Connect... App Connect allows apps to be listed on Quick Cards relative to an app's subject matter, and Quick Cards are items that appear in searches to let users find out more info... check out the blog post if you're not familiar with this

Jeff's Day 21 is written by Parag Joshi, and is on sockets... and is building a WP7 app for posting restaurant orders to a Silverlight OOB app running on a host machine... good sized tutorial and discussion, plus a project to download and play with

Jerrel Blankenship has Day 20 for Jeff Blankenburg's 31 Days of Mango and is discussing Ringtones... how to create and save a custom ringtone for your user

Joost van Schaik revisits his Safe Event Detachment pattern for WP7 and built a base class to take care of the initialization involved to be kind to us, the developers... code included

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