| Yikes... left off all my information last night! In this Issue: Jay Kimble, Charles Petzold, Peter Kuhn, Adam Kinney, Ollie Riches, Abhinaba Basu, Mike Taulty, Erik Mork, Kunal Chowdhury, Cheryl Simmons, Beth Massi, Joost van Schaik, Timmy Kokke, David Catuhe, Igor, and Dhananjay Kumar. |  |
Above the Fold:
| Silverlight: | "New version of Babylon engine for Silverlight 5 and Silverlight 5 Toolkit" David Catuhe |
| WP7: | "A behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background" Joost van Schaik |
| Beth Massi: | "Customizing the LightSwitch Time Tracker Starter Kit" Beth Massi |
Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest is up
Michael Washington's latest is up
WindowsPhoneGeek has announced the release of a free eBook:
Dennis Doomen is looking for a great UI design... check it out and give him some thoughts: Silverlight Cookbook: Looking for a great UI design
From:
Jay Kimble needed/wanted a live tile for his latest WP7 app, and decided to make a help class to reduce the line cound for a new live tile to 2... yeah... 2 lines of code
Charles Petzold has been running a series in MSDN Magazine on a bookreader for Project Gutenberg books... culminating in the November issue that allows you to pick any book in the collection.
Peter Kuhn is takling about dispatching messages to the UI from a background thread, and describes a 'side effect' of this use in WP7 development
Adam Kinney has a nice conceptual post up about LiveTiles and how to bes use them... how to plan for their use.
Ollie Riches discusses the addition of GZip compression support to the ResourceClient in WP7Contrib
Abhinaba Basu has a great detailed post up about Fast Application Switching... buncha charts, explanation, external links... good info
Not necessarily Silverlight... but Mike Taulty has a very interesting post up on the Async CTP and breakpointing around in it, finding out the path taken.
Erik Mork & Co. have their latest Podcast up discussing phones and tablets, and anything else that comes to mind:)
Kunal Chowdhury shows how to get all sorts of system information in your WP7 app using System.Environment
Cheryl Simmons' latest is a quick post on using Hyperlinks in WP7 development... hint... it's different than Silverlight for the desktop
Beth Massi has a post that starts with the Time Tracker Starter Kit released with LightSwitch and answers a user's questions about getting a tally of all hours worked on a given project by a given employee.
Joost van Schaik continues to play (programmatically) with the WP7 camera... this time out he's taken the info from his previous post about using the camera feed as a background, and turned it into a Behavior... too cool!
Not Silverlight, but Blend... Timmy Kokke is looking at ListView in Expression Blend 5
David Catuhe has updated the source of the Babylon engine for Silverlight 5 RC and the toolkit... on MSDN, so go get it and start crnaking 3D!
Igor has a new free photo editor app coming up in the Marketplace, and he's discussing how to read the EXIF data from the returned stream... hint.. he's using a library from Tim Heuer to get started.
Dhananjay Kumar has another WP7 video tutorial up... this one is about Orieentation Changes and how to program for them in your app
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