Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2010 -- #845

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Published on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:28:50 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/24 4:44 UTC
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In this Issue: Jason Allor, Bill Reiss, Mike Snow, Tim Heuer, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, and Dave Campbell.

Shoutouts:

You saw it at MIX10 and DevConnections... now you can give it a dance, John Papa announced eBay Simple Lister Beta Now Available

Mike Snow posted some info about and a link to his new Flickr/Bing/Google High End Image Viewer and he's looking for feedback

From SilverlightCream.com:

Hierarchical Data Trees With A Custom DataSource: Jason Allor is rounding out a series here in his new blog (bookmark it), and he's created his own custom HierarchicalDataSource class for use with the TreeView.
Space Rocks game step 11: Start level logic: Bill Reiss has Episode 11 up in his Space Rocks game ... working on NewGame and start level logic
Silverlight Tip of the Day #3 – Mouse Right Clicks: Mike Snow has Tip 3 up ... about handling right-mouse clicks in Silverlight 4 -- oh yeah, we got right mouse now ... grab Mike's project to check it out.
Silverlight 4 enables Authorization header modification: Tim Heuer talks about the ability to modify the Authorization header in network calls with Silverlight 4. He gives not only the quick-and-dirty of how to use it, but has some good examples, code, and code results for show and tell.
WCF RIA Services - Hands On Lab: John Papa built a bookstore app in roughly 10 minutes in the keynote at DevConnections. He now has a tutorial on doing just that plus all the code up.
Transactions with MVVM: Not strictly Silverlight (or WPF), but Jeremy Likness has an interesting article up on MVVM and transaction processing. Read the post then grab his helper class.
Your First Windows Phone 7 Application: As with the First Silverlight App a couple weeks ago, if you've got any WP7 experience at all, just keep going... this is for folks that have not looked at it yet, have not downloaded anything... oh, and it's by Dave Campbell