Silverlight Cream for January 01, 2011 -- #1020

In this short New Year's Day 2011 Issue, 3 Mikes: Mike Taulty, Mike Snow, and Mike Ormond.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Native Extensions for Silverlight (NESL)?" Mike Taulty
WP7:	"Monitoring Memory Usage on Windows Phone 7" Mike Ormond

From:

Mike Taulty has a really good write-up on Native Extensions for Silverlight... he describes what that project is about and gives guidance on best practices.

Mike Snow has a post up describing how to uniquely identify the phone or device your app is running on using the Microsoft.Phone.Info.DeviceExtendedProperties namespace

Mike Ormond has a post up showing how to turn on and make use of the framerate counters in WP7

Stay in the 'Light!

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