Silverlight Cream for June 09, 2010 -- #878

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Published on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:30:21 GMT Indexed on 2010/06/10 4:43 UTC
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In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Emiel Jongerius, Anton Polimenov, Andrew Veresov, SilverLaw, RoboBlob, Brandon Watson, and Charlie Kindel.

From SilverlightCream.com:

Implementing network protocol easily with a generic SocketClient: Andrea Boschin has a post up at SilverlightShow about the SocketClient class and how to use it to implement a POP3 client ... source project included
Passing parameters to a Silverlight XAP application: Emiel Jongerius describes the two ways to pass parameters to your Silverlight app, with detailed code examples.
WP7: What is Windows Phone 7: Anton Polimenov is beginning a WP7 series at SilvelightShow with this backgrounder article. I'm not sure where all of the info came from, but it's an interesting starter.
Initialization State Manager: Andrew Veresov has a post up discussing storing and managing state in your Silverlight app. The code isn't ready for prime time but it's available.
How To Rotate A Regular Silverlight 3 and 4 ChildWindow: SilverLaw responds to a forum post about rotating a child window. He's got a Silverlight 3 version on Expression Gallery, and describes the same in Silverlight 4 in this post.
Silverlight MergedDictionaries – using styles and resources from Class Libraries: RoboBlob has a very clearly-written post up about merged dictionaries, all the things possible with them, and all the code for the project.
New Policies for Next Gen Windows Phone Marketplace: Brandon Watson has an article up discussing the WP7 phone Marketplace. Lots of specifics and links out to more info... a definite read.
Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Charlie Kindel has a post up describing the concept of a beta distribution channel through the WP7 Marketplace... another definite read.