Silverlight Cream for December 13, 2010 -- #1010

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Published on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:30:45 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/16 4:11 UTC
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In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Benjamin Gavin, Dennis Doomen, Tim Greenfield, Mike Taulty, Jeff Blankenburg, Michael Crump, Laurent Duveau, Dragos Manolescu, KeyboardP, Yochay Kiriaty.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight RIA Services and Basic, Anonymous Authentication" Benjamin Gavin
WP7:	"lving Circular Navigation in Windows Phone Silverlight Applications" Yochay Kiriaty
SQL Azure:	"SQL Azure Database Manager – Part 1 : How to connect to your SQL Azure DB" Rénald Nollet

Shoutouts:

Yochay Kiriaty has a post up on the Windows Phone Devloper Blog about open source (MSPL) projects helping WP7 devs: Windows Phone Recipes – Helping the Community

Jesse Liberty's latest Yet Another Podcast is up and thie time it's Joe Stagner: Yet Another Podcast #18 – Joe Stagner

Josh Schwartzberg sent me this link to what is apparently his yearly web-only rock Christmas album: MetalXmas... done in Silverlight and RIA Services

From SilverlightCream.com:

SQL Azure Database Manager – Part 1 : How to connect to your SQL Azure DB: Rénald Nollet posted Part 1 of a series on a SQL Azure database manager all in Silverlight... has a live demo running, some description, and is making us wait for the next part!
Silverlight RIA Services and Basic, Anonymous Authentication: Benjamin Gavin has a quick post up resolving a basic RIA Services problem that I bet a lot of folks are looking for the answer on... like 500 series errors... cool little find he ferreted out...
A night of Silverlight, WPF, unit testing and Caliburn Micro: Dennis Doomen in concert with his employer gave a couple talks at the local DotNED user group, and covered literally a cornucopia of topics... slides, and example code for both talks... lotsa material here...
Tim Greenfield on PuzzleTouch WP7 Application: Tim Greenfield is the latest WP7 app developer to be interviewed by the SilverlightShow crew... lots of interesting comments and insight from Tim.
Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 4): Mike Taulty has part 4 of his PDC 2010 Silverlight app construction project up and is taking the app into Blend, and the considerations that brought to the table.
What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #2: Jeff Blankenburg continues his "What I Learned" series with this discussion about fonts, the Non-Linear Navigation service I mention below, and possible WP7 jobs.
Part 3 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers: Michael Crump has Part 3 of his Tips/Tricks up today. Lots of goodies this time: underlining in a TextBlock, getting browser info, startup params, VisualTreeHelper, and child windows.
My Windows Phone 7 presentation in Montreal: Laurent Duveau gave a WP7 presentation in Montreal as part of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Developer's Briefing, and has posted his materials and slide deck
WP7 Code: Mocking Event Streams with IEnumerable: Dragos Manolescu has a very cool post up on using IEnumerable to Mock event streams by leveraging the IObservable/IEnumerable duality, and uses the 2D bubble app that you can run and test in the emulator without needing an accelerometer
Transparent Wallpapers – Video Tutorial: KeyboardP has had so many queries about his Transparent wallpaper for WP7 that he produced a video tutorial for it...
Solving Circular Navigation in Windows Phone Silverlight Applications: Yochay Kiriaty discusses the first recipe they are releasing ... see the shoutout above, a Nonlinear Navigation Service ... to help with apps that have loops in navigation.