| In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Shawn Wildermuth, Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, Loek van den Ouweland, XAMLNinja, Ollie Riches(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, John Papa, Den Delimarsky, and Sumit Dutta. |  |
Above the Fold:
| WP7: | "Fun With New Live Tile API" Shawn Wildermuth |
| Expression Blend: | "Icons or other visuals with XAML instead of bitmaps" |
Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest is up
Gill Cleeren posted his
From:
Andrea Boschin has a new post up at SilverlightShow that is a continuation of his series there... this one is all about Data Access in WP7 and HttpWebRequest
Shawn Wildermuth is cranking out posts lately, so bookmark his blog!... this latest is on the Live Tile API in WP7.1 that lets you not only update the tile for your app, but your app can create multiple Live Tiles.
Kunal Chowdhury has an Expression Blend tutorial up showing how to convert a Rectangle or Ellipse control to a Path control
Peter Kuhn's latest post at SilverlightShow is a discussion of the icon guidelines and specifications for Windows Phone apps
In this quick Blend tutorial, Loek van den Ouweland shows how to create vector images in xaml using a button template as a starting point.
XAMLNinja has part 2 of his series on Tombstoning up... and that's using the WP7 Contrib wrappers, and in this post is talking about the part the ViewModel takes in this whole process
Ollie Riches has a a new series starting about 'Criterion Factory' in WP7 Contrib... a Bing Maps REST Services Wrapper... first up is this post showing how it's normally addressed.
Ollie Riches then follows up with the real first post talking about the Criterion Factory and begins with the task of searching for a location using latitude and longitude
In this second post about the HubTile control in the new WP Toolkit, WindowsPhoneGeek is talking about databinding the HubTile.
John Papa chats with Corrina Black on the last Silverlight TV episode before BUILD... Corrina talks through wireframing and its importance to the creative process for WP7 apps.
Den Delimarsky posted some cool information about the images Bing posts... there's an official dedicated web service for downloading the images up to 6 days back
Sumit Dutta has a series going on WP7 development... this is the first post... walks you through the steps to build your first simple app, code included.
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