Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2010 -- #930

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Timmy Kokke(-2-), Jeremy Likness, Chris Koenig, Rob Miles(-2-), Bob Caswell, and Alex Yakhnin(-2-).

Shoutouts:

Shawn Wildermuth adds a video to go along with his last post Developing for the Windows Phone 7 - Part 4: Tombstoning

Scott Hanselman talks to Jeff Wilcox about WP7 performance: Hanselminutes Podcast 228 - Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7

Indrajit AKA indifromoz is keeping a page of WP7 resources you may want to bookmark: Windows Phone 7 Resources

Jonathan van de Veen poses a question and asks for comments: Microsoft introduces LightSwitch: Game changer or gadget showoff?


From:

Michael Washington is continuing to investigate LightSwitch, with this episode adding Colin Eberhart's awesome gauge control to a project.

Timmy Kokke has two good posts up on the PivotViewer control... this first is the basics on where to get it, and how to get one running.

Timmy Kokke's 2nd PivotViewer control post is on consuming a webservice in the PivotControl and building a collection at runtime... as many of us with large data collections are going to be doing.

Jeremy Likness has been digging into Rx lately, and has a post up describing how to simplify web service calls using Rx. He even states "In fact, even if you don't use Reactive Extensions, you may benefit from the proxy wrappers that I'll describe"

Chris Koenig has a great post that I somehow missed on altering the push notification tiles that arrive on your behalf.

Rob Miles has a quick post up on WP7 Screens and XNA... all good to know information... like disabling the time-out...

Do you know the best way to handle what happens when the phone rings and your user is in the middle of your fabulous game??... Rob Miles has a post about just that

Bob Caswell posted links to all of the WP7 JumpStart videos (in HD), and all the material that was originally available, so go for it!

Alex Yakhnin has the final (3rd) episode of his round WP7 button creation series posted.

Alex Yakhnin also has a solution up to the question many people are having of displaying a progress bar with the splash screen image.

Stay in the 'Light!


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