Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2010 -- #1012

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Published on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:18:11 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/20 17:49 UTC
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In this Issue: Mark Monster, Kevin Dockx, Jeremy Likness(-2-,-3-), Timmy Kokke, Den Delimarsky, Mike Snow, Samuel Jack(-2-), and Renuka Prasad(-2-).

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Trigger a Storyboard on ViewModel changes" Mark Monster
WP7:	"Microsoft Push Notification in Windows Phone 7" Renuka Prasad

Shoutouts:

SilverlightGal sent me the link to The Silverlight Dossier ... I think it's a pretty good start... additions I'd like to see are ways to submit to the various areas.

Michael Crump put up a contest that runs from now to January 1st... Win a set of Infragistics Silverlight Controls with Data Visualization!... pretty cool, Michael!

If you visit WynApse.com, you'll see I have a subscription to LearnVisualStudio.net... and now they have posted a batch of WP7 videos... 64 of them to be exact... wow!: New video series

From SilverlightCream.com:

Trigger a Storyboard on ViewModel changes: Mark Monster has a great post up about triggering Storyboard on ViewModel changes using the DataTrigger from Blend... cool stuff, and you can also do GoToStateAction or other actions or build yourowndang Trigger Action... fun awaits! ... sorry it took a while to post, Mark... been a tad overloaded here!
Working with the Silverlight Rich Text Box control: Kevin Dockx has had a post up for a while at SilverlightShow where he takes a good look at the RichText control and it's various capabilities, including source so you can give it a dance yourself.
Lessons Learned in Personal Web Page Part 3: Custom Panel and Listbox: Jeremy Likness's part 3 of his Personal Web Page lessons learned is covering the tres-cool 3D Panel he did... and he's got it all explained out... building from scratch via a custom panel and a Listbox control...
A Silverlight MVVM Feed Reader from Scratch in 30 Minutes: Jeremy Likness has a video tutorial showing building an MVVM/Silverlight feedreader in 30 minutes ... plus a couple mods that he noticed after the fact... beat that HTML5 :)
Jounce Part 8: Raising Property Changed: In Jeremy Likness's latest post, he has number 8 in his series on his MVVM platform, Jounce. This time he's explaining the property changed notification, has a very cool way of doing it, and some interesting comments from readers.
Dependency Injection, MVVM, Ninject and Silverlight: Timmy Kokke has a great tutorial up with associated demo project on Dependency Injection in MVVM and Silverlight.
Some hidden features in the Windows Phone 7 emulator: Den Delimarsky shows how to get some of the hidden features on your WP7 emulator like the Call History, Call Settings, and Details about the numbers.
Playing sound effects on Windows Phone 7: Mike Snow's latest tip is playing sound effects on your WP7 ... a little bit of XNA here and there, and badabing, badaboom, you got sound!
Day 3 of my “Build a Windows Phone 7 game in 3 days” Challenge: Samuel Jack has a couple more posts up about his 'Build a WP7 game in 3 Days' challenge... first up is Day 3 from 8:50 to 22:30 ... wow... long day! ... but he's got something good going now... some good external links also
Day 3.5 of my “Build a Windows Phone 7 game in 3 days” Challenge: Samuel Jack's 3rd day ended with another half-day added on to put on some finishing touches... again, some good external links... and he finished with this Say hello to Simon Squared, my 3.5 day old WP7 Game
Microsoft Push Notification in Windows Phone 7: Renuka Prasad has a bunch of material up that I've not been aware of (how did that happen, people??) ... here's the first of a couple of his posts on Code Project ... a very nice tutorial on the Push Notification process... great diagrams and external links.
Windows Phone 7 – Toast Notification Using Windows Azure Cloud Service: Renuka Prasad has another WP7 post on CodeProject... this one on Toast Notification... and he's using Azure and WCF all rolled into it as well... great diagrams, descriptions and all the code.