Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 - 2 -- #1126

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Pontus Wittenmark(-2-), Derik Whittaker, Peter Kuhn, Michael James, XamlNinja, Adam Kinney, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Alex Sorokoletov(-2-), and Den Delimarsky.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:"WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 1 - Custom Controls Theme"
Morten Nielsen
WP7:"New Windows Phone “How Do I” Video Series"
Adam Kinney
LightSwitch:"The LightSwitch Control Extension Makers Dilemma"
Michael Washington

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo has his latest up... check it out... lots of good stuff for whatever you're interested in


From:

Michael Washington compares some of the vendor's controls for LightSwitch and explains why some are better than others for a LightSwitch solution.

Pontus Wittenmark has one of his example projects up demonstrating XNA LowLatencySound Playback in Silvelight 5 Beta

In his latest Silverlight 5 Beta post, Pontus Wittenmark has an example up of using the new Custome Markup Extensions

Derik Whittaker is working with SQL CE on WP7.1 and resolved the root of an exception he was getting, and is sharing the solution with us.

Peter Kuhn resolved an issue with Forms Auth and WP7 and decided to share the workaround he came up with to save the rest of us some time.

Michael James has a post up about Local Messaging and demos this with two OOB apps... seems a resurgence in this in the last couple weeks.

XamlNinja has part 3 of his WP7 Contrib Bing Maps wrapper up, and this time is talking about programmatic search.

Adam Kinney has 19 "How Do I" videos up for WP7 devs... lots of good subjects... each video 10 to 15 minutes of good information... downloads with each video as well

Morten Nielsen has a series going on building apps for 3 platforms... specifically focusing on things that you need to watch out for, coming from someone that's been there... this is the introduction

Morten Nielsen is the first in Morten's series... the difference in applying themes in WPF and Silverlight.

Alex Sorokoletov has an explanation up for Horizontal scrolling of a simple scrollviewer in WP7.1 with a video showing both normal and wrong behavior

Alex Sorokoletov also has a short post up on creating secondary tiles in WP7.1... good code example and downloadable project

Den Delimarsky is discussing the Accelerometer in the WP7.1 emulator and shows how to easily add custom mostions that can be used for testing your app.

Stay in the 'Light!


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This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Dave Campbell

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