Silverlight Cream for December 12, 2010 - 2 -- #1009

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Published on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:58:37 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/13 4:01 UTC
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In this Issue: Michael Crump, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Domagoj Pavlešic, Peter Kuhn, James Ashley, Sara Summers, Morten Nielsen, Peter Torr, and Tau Sick.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight 4 – Coded UI Framework Video Tutorial" Michael Crump
WP7:	"Windows Phone From Scratch #12–Custom Behaviors (Part I)" Jesse Liberty

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4 – Coded UI Framework Video Tutorial: Michael Crump posted a video tutorial today on the Coded UI Test Framework that we got with the VS2010 Feature Pack 2. Wanna create automated tests? ... check out Michael's video and save yourself some time.
Windows Phone From Scratch #12–Custom Behaviors (Part I): Jesse Liberty posted his Windows Phone from Scratch number 12 today... and it's on Custom Behaviors... cool stuff... need to read this and get your head around it... this is part 1, jump on it before he drops part 2 on us!
The Next Application Platform? All of them...: Shawn Wildermuth has a thought-provoking post up ... check it out and see if you're ready to join him on the adventure of building for all the platforms...
Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer Test App: Domagoj Pavlešic has a test app up for the accelerometer on the WP7 ... if you need to use it, and are having problems, a good example always helps me.
Protocol of developing an animation texture tool: Peter Kuhn found a need for a tool to creat some animations for an WP7 XNA game... so he challenged himself to write it, and detailed out all his steps as he went.
Re-examining WP7 Launchers and Choosers: James Ashley's most recent post is on the Pivot Control ... check this out... add a working Horizontally oriented slider to a pivot... plus some external links to help out
New Prototyping Sketch Sheets for WP7: This is one of those posts that I had to go to SilverlightCream and make sure I hadn't hit it yet... pretty cool prototype sheets for WP7 by Sara Summers ... we've seen others, they're all good.
Simulating GPS on Windows Phone 7: Morten Nielsen helps you get around the fact that you're not going to be able to use the emulator for testing your GPS app ... at least not without some assistance... and that doesn't mean hauling your dev system around your neighborhood, either.
How to correctly handle application deactivation and reactivation: We've seen posts on Tombstoning, but probably not from Silverlight team members... check this one out from Peter Torr ... great even sequence information and all the info on how to correctly handle it, plus external links to the documentation... you knew there was documentation, right? :)
Localizing a Windows Phone 7 Application: Tau Sick has a post up discussing Localization and your WP7 apps... coming from soneone with an app in the marketplace in 3 languages, it's a pretty good bet he's got it figured out!