Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2010 -- #1017

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Published on Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:57 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/29 5:55 UTC
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In this Issue: Davide Zordan, Alex Golesh, Michael S. Scherotter, Andrej Tozon, Alex Knight, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Jeremy Likness, and Laurent Bugnion.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"My “What’s new in Silverlight 4 demo” app" Andrej Tozon
WP7:	"Taking a screenshot from within a Silverlight #WP7 application" Laurent Bugnion
Expression Blend:	"PathListBox: getting started" Alex Knight

Shoutouts:

If you haven't seen this SurfCube app demo on YouTube yet... check it out now: SurfCube V1.0 Windows Phone 7 Browser

Want to get a free WP7 class from Shawn Wildermuth? Check this out: Webinar: Writing your first Windows Phone 7 Application

Koen Zwikstra announed the next preview of his great tool: Silverlight Spy Preview 2

From SilverlightCream.com:

Using the Multi-Touch Behavior in a Windows Phone 7 Multi-Page application: Davide Zordan has a post up responding to questions he receives about multi-touch on WP7 in applications spanning more than one page.
Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 Quick Tip: Fix missing icons while using DatePicker/TimePicker controls: Alex Golesh discusses the use of the DatePicker control from the WP7 toolkit and found an unpleasant surprise associated with the Done/Cancel icons in the ApplicationBar, and has a solution for us.
Updated SMF Thumbnail Scrubbing Sample Code: Michael S. Scherotter has a post up about an update he's done to Silverlight 4 of code that allows thumbnail views of a video while 'scrubbing' ... don't know what that is? read the post :)
My “What’s new in Silverlight 4 demo” app: Andrej Tozon admits he's a little behind with this post, but as he points out, it might be a good time to review Silverlight 4 features, on the eve of 5.
PathListBox: getting started: One half the Knight team -- Alex Knight this time, has the first post of a series on the PathListBox up ... some real Expression Blend goodness.
What I Learned in WP7 – Issue #9: Two more from Jeff Blankenburg today, in his number 9, he starts off demonstrating passing data between pages when navigating and fnishes up with some excellent info for submitting apps to the marketplace.
What I Learned in WP7 – #Issue 10: Jeff Blankenburg's number 10 elaborates on the query string data he discussed in number 9.
Using Sterling in Windows Phone 7 Applications: Who better than the author?? Jeremy Likness has an end-to-end WP7/Sterling app up on his blog... begin with downloading Sterling, discuss what's needed to support Tombstoning, even custom serialization.
Taking a screenshot from within a Silverlight #WP7 application: Laurent Bugnion has a post up describing something people have been looking for: getting a screenshot of a WP7 application's page.