Silverlight Cream for March 26, 2010 -- #821

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Published on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:58:58 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/27 0:13 UTC
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In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Christian Schormann, John Papa, Phani Raj, David Anson(-2-, -3-), Brad Abrams(-2-), and Jeff Wilcox(-2-, -3-).

Shoutouts:

Jeff Wilcox posted his material from mix and some preview TestFramework bits: Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications – talk now online

At MIX10, Jeff Wilcox demo'd an app called "Peppermint"... here's the bleeding edge demo: “Peppermint” MIX demo sources

Erik Mork and Co. have put out their weekly This Week In Silverlight 3.25.2010

Brad Abrams has all his materials posted for his MIX10 session Mix2010: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Microsoft Silverlight... including play-by-play of the demo and all source.

Do you use Rooler? Well you should! Watch a video Pete Brown did with Pete Blois on Expression Blend, Windows Phone, Rooler

Interested in Silverlight and XNA for WP7? Me too! Michael Klucher has a post outlining the two: Silverlight and XNA Framework Game Development and Compatibility

From SilverlightCream.com:

Modularity in Silverlight Applications - An Issue With ModuleInitializeException: Max Paulousky has a truly ugly error trace listed by way of not having a reference listed, and the obvious simple solution. Next time he'll talk about the difficult situations.
Using SketchFlow to Prototype for Windows Phone: Christian Schormann has a tutorial up on using Expression Blend to develop for WP7 ... who better than Christian for that task??
Silverlight TV 18: WCF RIA Services Validation: John Papa held forth with Nikhil Kothari on WCF RIA Services and validation just prior to MIX10, and was posted yesterday.
Building SL3 applications using OData client Library with Vs 2010 RC: Phani Raj walks through building an OData consumer in SL3, the first problem you're going to hit, and the easy solution to it.
Tip: When creating a DependencyProperty, follow the handy convention of "wrapper+register+static+virtual": David Anson has a couple more of his 'Tips' up... this first is about Dependency Properties again... having a good foundation for all your Dependency Properties is a great way to avoid problems.
Tip: Do not assign DependencyProperty values in a constructor; it prevents users from overriding them: In the next post, David Anson talks about not assigning Dependency Property values in a constructor and gives one of the two ways to get around doing so.
Tip: Set DependencyProperty default values in a class's default style if it's more convenient: In his latest post, David Anson gives the second way to avoid setting a Dependency Property value in the constructor.
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Brad Abrams Abrams adds SEO to the tutorial series he's doing. He begins with his PDC09 session material on the subject and then takes off on a great detailed tutorial all with source.
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application: Brad Abrams then discusses localization and Silverlight in another detailed tutorial with all code included.
Silverlight Toolkit and the Windows Phone: WrapPanel, and a few others: Jeff Wilcox has a few WP7 posts I'm going to push today. This first is from earlier this week and is about using the Toolkit in WP7 and better than that, he includes the bits you need if all you want is the WrapPanel
Data binding user settings in Windows Phone applications: In the next one from yesterday, Jeff Wilcox demonstrates saving some user info in Isolated Storage to improve the user experience, and shares all the necessary plumbing files, and other external links as well.
Displaying 2D QR barcodes in Windows Phone applications: In a post from today, Jeff Wilcox ported his Silverlight 2D QR Barcode app from last year into WP7 ... just very cool... get the source and display your Microsoft Tag.