Silverlight Cream for October 07, 2010 -- #962

In this Issue: Joost van Schaik, Rudi Grobler, AfricanGeek, Mike Talbot, Jeff Blankenburg, Shawn Wildermuth, and Victor Gaudioso.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:"Automatic Grid Layout for Silverlight"
Mike Talbot
WP7:"On Design Paradigms for Windows Phone 7"
Shawn Wildermuth

Shoutouts:

Victor Gaudioso has posted Video of my two day Sharing in the Light Silverilght/Blend/Visual Studio Course in Dallas

Jesse Liberty posted his latest Yet Another Podcast Show #4 – iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Development


From:

Joost van Schaik has a post up about his attempt at using MVVMLight on the job to open a file from the local system, what he got involved in, and how he got around it.

Rudi Grobler has a post up for all you Silverlight/Windows 7 folks... how to associate your xap files with slauncher.exe so you can just double-click the little bugger.

AfricanGeek has a new WP7 Video tutorial up on creating a 'looping control'... like the Date/Time picker.

Mike Talbot has a new post up... describing his Grid subclass, AutoGrid that takes some of the plumbing out of setting up grids... two thumbs up, I say!

Jeff Blankenburg is on Day 7 of his 31-Days of WP7 and is discussing Launchers.

Shawn Wildermuth gives great advice on design considerations while building a WP7 app... based on his recently completing an app that'll bein the marketplace.

Victor Gaudioso

Victor Gaudioso started a series of Video Tutorials on WP7 a couple days ago. He's got 4 of them out now. The first one is on Creating an AppBar and adding IconButtons and Menu Items. The current others are: 2), 3), and 4).

Stay in the 'Light!


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