In this Issue: Michael Washington, Hassan, David Anson, Jeff Wilcox, UK Application Development Consulting, Davide Zordan, Victor Gaudioso, Anoop Madhusudanan, Phil Middlemiss, and Laurent Bugnion.
Shoutouts:
Josh Smith has a good-read post up: Design-time data is still data
Shawn Hargreaves reported his MIX demo released
From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight MVVM: Enabling Design-Time Data in Expression Blend When Using Web Services
Michael Washington has a tutorial up on MVVM and using a web service to get design-time data that works in Blend also... lots of information and screenshots.
Hassan has a new WP7 tutorial up that demonstrates playing media and adding transition animation between pages.
David Anson's latest tip is in response to comments on his previous post and details one by Dr. WPF who points out that a read-only DependencyProperty doesn't actually need to be a DependencyProperty as long as the class implements INotifyPropertyChanged.
Template parts and custom controls (quick tip)
Jeff Wilcox has posted a set of tips and recommendations to use when developing control development in Silverlight ... this is a post to bookmark.
Flexible Data Template Support in Silverlight
The UK Application Development Consulting details a 'problem' in Silverlight that doesn't exist in WPF and that is data templates that vary by type... and discusses a way around it.
Multi-Touch enabling Silverlight Simon using Blend behaviors and the Surface sample for Silverlight
Davide Zordan brought Multi-Touch to the Silverlight Simon game on CodePlex using Blend Behaviors.
New Video Tutorial: How to Use a Behavior to Fire Methods from Objects in Styles
Victor Gaudioso has a video tutorial up responding to a question from a developer. He demonstrates development of a Behavior that can be attached to objects in or out of Styles that allows you to specify what Method they need to fire.
Creating a Silverlight Client for @shanselman ’s Nerd Dinner, using oData and Bing Maps
Anoop Madhusudanan took Scott Hanselman's post on an OData API for StackOverflow, and has created a Silverlight client for Nerd Dinner, including BingMaps.
A Chrome and Glass Theme - Part 2
Phil Middlemiss has the next part of his Chrome and Glass Theme up. In this one he creates a very nice chrome-look button with visual state changes.
MVVM Light Toolkit V3 SP1 for Windows Phone 7
Laurent Bugnion has released a new version of MVVM Light for WP7. Included is an installation manual and information about what was changed.
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