Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2010 -- #884

In this Issue: Zoltan Arvai, Emiel Jongerius, Charles Petzold, Adam Kinney, Deepesh Mohnani, Timmy Kokke, and Damon Payne.

Shoutouts:

Andy Beaulieu reported his Coding4Fun: Shuffleboard Game for WP7 has been posted -- Big ol' Tutorial and 6 videos of WP7 goodness

Karl Shifflett announced Three New WPF and Silverlight Designer Videos Posted

Charles Petzold has a cool Flip-Number Clock in Silverlight posted... cool demo, and the source.


From SilverlightCream.com:

Data Driven Applications with MVVM Part II: Messaging, Unit Testing, and Live Data Sources

Zoltan Arvai has part 2 of his Data-Driven Apps with MVVM up, and this one is also including Messaging, Unit Testing, and Live WCF Data... good tutorial and all the code.

Silverlight DataContext Changed Event and Trigger

Emiel Jongerius takes a hard swing at the lack of DataContextChanged... his solution involves two attached properties instead of one... check it out and see what you think!

Orientation Strategies for Windows Phone 7

Charles Petzold is discussing WP7 Orientation... showing the problems you can get involved in, and how to work through them... and you might be surprised at how he does it :) ... pretty cool as usual, Charles!

Debugging the TranslateZoomRotate WPF Behavior in Blend

Adam Kinney talks through a bug reported about the WPF TranslateZoomRotate Behavior. Again, it's WPF, but it's in Blend, and ya never know when the solution might apply.

I want my app to look like the Zune client

Deepesh Mohnani demonstrates using the Cosmopolitan theme to get his app to have the same look as the Zune client.

MVVM Project and Item Templates

Timmy Kokke is continuing with his cool SilverAmp media player, using it to expand upon the new Blend and Silverlight 4 features. This episode touches very lightly on cranking up a new MVVM project in Blend.

Great Features for MVVM Friendly Objects Part 0: Favor Composition Over Inheritance

Damon Payne has the first part up of a series he's working on with 'MVVM Friendly' features... he's building out a lot of the infrastructure in this post for the ones that follow... all good stuff.

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