| In this Issue: Mike Talbot, Michael Crump, Kunal Chowdhury, Cheryl Simmons, Joost van Schaik(-2-), Shantimohan Elchuri, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Peter Torr, Pete Vickers, Derik Whittaker, and Den Delimarsky. |  |
Above the Fold:
| Silverlight: | "Wordle Like Tag Cloud for Silverlight" Mike Talbot |
| WP7: | "Speed and distance calculation extension methods for Windows Phone 7" Joost van Schaik |
Shoutouts:
Check out Pete Brown's interview on.NET Rocks:
Koen Zwikstra announced a July update:
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Mike Talbot has a cool Silverlight component you can download... a tag cloud that has Wordle style clouds... very cool
Michael Crump has Part 4 of his OData series up and is talking about OData in Silverlight and WP7
Kunal Chowdhury had a post up about a circular 'loader' busy indicator made of a series of balls chasing each other. This post is a smooth gradient-changing indicator.
Cheryl Simmons has the post you need... what to know to make sure your apps work in Mango... lots of good info backed up with external links
Joost van Schaik posted some cool extension methods he used for his WP7 game engine... and will be included in the WP7nl utilities on CodePlex
Joost van Schaik's latest is on localizing your WP7 app and leveraging MVVMLight to help you do so.
WindowsPhoneGeek turns his blog over to Shantimohan Elchuri for this latest post on Sockets in WP7.1... and discusses it in light of an app he built to play with all this stuff. Source and a vizio file of the command process flow are available.
Jesse Liberty is joined by Sean McKenna in his latest "Yet another Podcast"... talking about Windows Phone and strutured data, databases, and more
As the title suggests, Jesse Liberty discusses the merits of using LinqPad and Visual Studio for learning LINQ because you know you're going to have to take it to VS anyway!
Peter Torr has the fiinal part of his trilogy on Background Agents up... and is discussing some of the helper libraries in the project that he has posted.
Pete Vickers' latest is about an error report he was getting: "The parameter is incorrect"... you may be surprised what caused it, and he's got a workaround of course.
Derik Whittaker blogs about using Caliburn.Micro for his upgrade to WP7.1, but he wants to use Ninject instead of the PhoneComtainer in Caliburn... and it works... check out his code
Den Delimarsky discusses the two types of system alerts that you now have available in WP7.1: Reminders and Alarms
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