Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2010 -- #861

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Published on Fri, 14 May 2010 05:33:37 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/14 6:34 UTC
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In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Jeff Prosise, DaveDev, Joe Zhou, Chris Eargle, John Papa(-2-, -3-), and David Anson(-2-).

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In with the links I've listed below, Sigurd Snørteland also sent a link to this app he's working on which is actually pretty cool to see: ZuneLight. The code is not yet available. He also has a no-code demo of a Silverlight Media Center

Pieter Voloshyn, Luiz Thadeu, and Jhun Iti have a very nice Silverlight image editor up: Thumba

From SilverlightCream.com:

WP7 - Silverlight on mobile: Sigurd Snørteland submitted some links for me that have been translated to English from his blog. I hope the pages come out good because he's got a lot of good stuff on there. This one has a link to a presentation he did, and 4 projects you can load up in the emulator that he's converted to the phone: weather, worldclock, coverflow, and solitaire ... pretty cool... thanks for the links Sigurd!
Understanding Page Orientation in Silverlight for Windows Phone: Jeff Prosise has a really nice post up on page orientation in WP7 ... what it means to your app, how to detect it, and example code for what to do then... also love a quote by Jeff: "Silverlight for Windows Phone is the hottest thing since color TV"
Why you should check out Expression Blend Behaviors when using Silverlight: DaveDev has a post up describing Behaviors and why we should use them, plus tons of external links to resources, blogs, videos... all good stuff...
Fiddler inspector for WCF Silverlight Polling Duplex and WCF RIA: Joe Zhou announces and provides a link to a new Fiddler inspector that understands the framing in Polling Duplex and also raw binary xml and binary SOAP.
Windows Phone Controls v0.7: Chris Eargle reports the release of Version 0.7 of the Windows Phone Controls project on CodePlex ... this includes a Pivot Control and a Panorama Control... both very nicely done.
Binding to Silverlight ComboBox and Using SelectedValue, SelectedValuePath and DisplayMemberPath: John Papa responds to a user question and put up a nice post about binding to a ComboBox and then go from the selected item to some other property ... code included
No More Boxes! Exploring the PathListBox (Silverlight TV #25): Silverlight TV 25 went up on Tuesday ... thought it was going to be Thursday?? anyway ... John Papa and Adam Kinney are discussing the PathListBox and looking at some cool demos thereof.
Exposing SOAP, OData, and JSON Endpoints for RIA Services (Silverlight TV 26): Since today IS Thursday, we have a new Silverlight TV, number 26, and John Papa is chatting with Deepesh Mohnani of the WCF RIA Services team about exposing all sorts of endpoints... should be something in there for everybody :)
Workaround for a Silverlight data binding bug affecting various scenarios - including DataGrid+ContextMenu: David Anson details the rabbit-trail he and others on the team followed in response to a problem reported via Twitter where the binding on a DataGrid seemed off by a row(!) ... weird but true, validated, and SL3/4 are bug-for-bug compatible with this too! ... But David wouldn't leave us there.. he also has a workaround.
Sharing the code for a simple Silverlight 4 REST-based cloud-oriented file management app for Azure and S3: David Anson had an opportunity to build an app he's wanted to build for a while and shares it with us: Blobstore -- a small, lightweight Silverlight 4 application that acts as a basic front-end for the Windows Azure Simple Data Storage and the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) -- and remember I said he shared the source :)