Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2010 -- #851

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Published on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:46:23 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/29 23:58 UTC
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In this Issue: Carlos Figueira(-2-), Subodh Pushpak, Gergely Orosz, John Papa, Mike Snow(-2-), Rishi, Tim Heuer, Stefan Olson, and David Anson.

Shoutouts:

Josh Holmes blogged about a cool app the City of Miami has up: Miami 311: Built on Windows Azure

Gergely Orosz reports on the state of a bug he found pre SL4: Silverlight 4 still displays large elements incorrectly

Laura Foy and Charlie Kindel discuss WP7 on Channel 9: Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Refresh Announced

Charlie Kindel has an announcement, good instructions, and what's new notes on the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh!

Tim Heuer mentioned the workaround for this in his post (below), but I thought you might like to read Brandon Watson's debrief of what it's all about: Signed Assemblies Bug in the Windows Phone Tools CTP Refresh

Laurent Bugnion posted about interrelations between versions of Blend and WP7 code... read it closely: Be careful when installing the Blend Windows Phone 7 Add-In

From SilverlightCream.com:

Consuming REST/POX services in Silverlight 4: Carlos Figueira has a pair of posts up about consuming services in Silverlight 4. This first one is about consuming REST/POX services. He provides a Service Contract that can be used with either and the full project code is available as well.
Consuming REST/JSON services in Silverlight 4: In the second post, Carlos Figueira provides the code to allow WCF and Silverlight 4 to consume strongly-typed REST/JSON... and again, all the code is available.
Silverlight and WCF caching: Subodh Pushpak has a post up discussing caching in WCF, and has code demonstrating turning caching on at run-time.
Detecting Silverlight Version Installed: Gergely Orosz said it right when he said "Detecting the Silverlight version installed on a client machine isn’t entirely straightforward." ... and after reading this post, if you take the link to his ScottLogic blog, you'll get a full break-out of how it's done.
Silverlight TV 22: Tim Heuer on Extending the SMF: It's Thursday, and that means Silverlight TV! ... this week, John Papa has on Tim Heuer who has always been out there pushing media... and he's talking about SMF or Silverlight Media Framework for the uninitiated, and also extending it.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #7 – Localized Resources: Mike Snow has Tip Number 7 up and it's about localization... good end-to-end discussion and demonstration. Just thought I should use that to prove to my daughter that the tatoo she had put on the back of her neck actually reads "Eat More Broccoli" :)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #8 – Detecting Alt, Shift, Control, Window & Apple Keys Combinations: I just realized Mike Snow's site logo reads "Silverlight Tips of the Day" (bolding mine) ... that answers why I'm seeing more than one -- sorry Mike, couldn't pass it up :) ... Mike's second tip today and number 8 in the series is on detecting all the mouse button and ctl/alt/shift combinations in Silverlight.
nRoute: More Wholesomeness, with SL 4 and .NET 4.0: Rishi has a post up announcing a new nRoute release for Silverlight 4 and .NET 4.0 He's tweaked the code to take advantages of enhancements in the new platforms, so check it out.
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools April 2010 Refresh: Booya... Tim Heuer announced the release of the next drop in the WP7 tools ... dang wish I was at home today :) ... be sure to read the post for info such as the notes about Authenticode Assemblies and the release notes.
Updates to Silverlight Multi-binding support: Stefan Olson points up a SL4 change to Multi-binding support that he had previously blogged about. He shows the previous non-working example, and what you have to do to make it work now.
Using XAML to create a custom wallpaper image for your mobile device: David Anson has a solution for those pesky lost devices, and let me go on the record right now saying if anyone finds a WP7 phone laying around, just call me, it's mine :) [think that'd work??] ... ok, David's solution is a WPF app "MobileDeviceHomeScreenMaker" that you get the info set and it produces a png you then put on your device. But seriously about that lost phone...