Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2011 -- #1142

September 4, 2011 · 2 min read
In this Issue: Lee, Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, XamlNinja, Ollie Riches, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown(-2-, -3-), Dhananjay Kumar, Sumit Dutta, and Asim Sajjad.RSSImage

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:"Using PInvoke in SL5 to show MessageBox"
Lee
WP7:"WP7Contrib: Dialling the phone number shown in a text block"
Ollie Riches

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest is up

Michael Washington's latest is up

Laurent Bugnion has some good news about MVVM light:... note he also says V4 Beta 1 is nearing completion!

From:

Lee takes a different route with a PInvoke example for Silverlight 5 RC... showing a messagebox with a boatload of options.

Kunal Chowdhury's latest post is on the Silverlight 5 RC's enhancements for elevated trust... specifically the addition of elevated trust for In-Browser apps.

Peter Kuhn has a quick tip up for those of us running 64-bits and wondering about the 64-bit version of the plug-in

XamlNinja is continuing his description of the Bing Service Wrapper in WP7 Contrib with this post on Imagery... and makes a very difficult task much easier... check it out.

Ollie Riches has a quick but very cool post up about using the Smart Text Block control in WP7 Contrib to make it really easy to dial a phone number displayed in a text block

WindowsPhoneGeek's latest post is on the LockablePivot control in the Windows Phone Toolkit... great in-depth tutorial as usual, ending with a downloadable sample

Jeremy Likness' latest is another Silverlight 5 RC post on Tasks and how they are used to simplify asynchronous methods, with a good example of doing so

Pete Brown has a post up about Silverlight 5 and fonts... tons of good information here on Typography and all the things you can do with it.

Due to queries from readers, Pete Brown posted a great list of what's new or improved in this latest version of Silverlight

Pete Brown also has a post up about text clarity with the new Silverlight drop. This has always been a place that Silverlight took a big hit

Dhananjay Kumar's latest post is about saving/restoring page state for WP7.1, with a good debug note if you're not familiar with it already

In Part 6 of his WP7 series, Sumit Dutta is discussing Navigation... discussion and lots of code with a good example

Asim Sajjad has some good information up for those trying to get started in MVVM and confused about how to do some things... in this case, closing a child window

Stay in the 'Light!

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

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