Silverlight Cream for March 07, 2011 -- #1055

March 7, 2011 · 2 min read
In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Chris Rouw, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Simon Guindon, and Dhananjay Kumar.RSSImage

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:"Faster Databinding in WPF and Silverlight using OptimizedObservableCollection"
Simon Guindon
WP7:"Phoney Tools Updated (WP7 Open Source Library)"
Shawn Wildermuth

From:

Max Paulousky has a post up discussing the issues surrounding beta testing a WP7 app with a large group of testers... and how to pull it all off.

Chris Rouw is beginning a WP7 series based on his recent experience of getting a client's app into the marketplace. This first in his series is on consuming REST APIs... lots of good code and explanations.

David Anson has an update to his LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox after issues brought up by readers... so we all win with the great feedback from alert devs.

Jesse Liberty started looking at Jeremy Likness' Sterling with this post in the WP7 From Scratch series. He starts with downloading it from CodePlex... great way to get into Sterling if you haven't already.

Shawn Wildermuth has the latest drop of his Phoney Tools up... this is the last Alpha. I've added a tag for it as well. He's fixed some things, added others... check out the post and go grab the code.

Simon Guindon is a blogger I've not been following, but this post on an OptimizedObservableCollection caught my eye. He added an AddRange to the ObservableCollection to get a speed enhancement when adding items... and a pretty good speed enhancement it is.

Dhananjay Kumar is another prolific blogger that I've not been following, so we'll start with his latest... a step-by-step guide to reading an XML file asynchronously.

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