Silverlight Cream for January 04, 2011 -- #1022

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Published on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:32:04 GMT Indexed on 2011/01/05 6:54 UTC
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In this Issue: Dennis Doomen, Doug Holland, Kunal Chowdhury, Sacha Barber, Paul Sheriff, Mike Snow(-2-), Peter Kuhn(-2-), and Mike Ormond.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight: Fixing the BookShelf Sample" Peter Kuhn
WP7:	"Searching the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Programmatically" Doug Holland
Prism/Cinch:	"PRISM 4 Custom Transitioning Region" Sacha Barber

Shoutouts:

Sacha Barber the author of Cinch asks for some advice from users: Cinch V2 : Question For The Reader

Michael Crump introduces us to SnippetManager as a way to organize your Silverlight snippets... I'm thinking any snippet: A better way to organize your Silverlight Code Snippets.

Andy Beaulieu announced an update of Physics Helper 4.2 using Farseer 3.2 ... check out the breaking changes though!

Dennis Doomen blogged about a new release of his Fluent Assertions: A new year with a new release of Fluent Assertions, with a blog post about it below

From SilverlightCream.com:

Verifying PropertyChanged events in Silverlight using Fluent Assertions: Dennis Doomen release his latest Fluent Assertions for .NET and Silverlight and wrote up a big post about the new event monitoring syntax.
Searching the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Programmatically: Doug Holland has a post up on MSDN blogs talking about searching the WP7 Marketplace programmatically... ya know you should be able to do it... here's how.
Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part - 5): Kunal Chowdhury has Part 5 of a tutorial series on Lightswitch up at SilverlightShow... working with custom validation this time, and for the first time in this series so far actually writes some code!
PRISM 4 Custom Transitioning Region: Sacha Barber took time to look at Prism4/MEF and Cinch2 and found things to be fine then wrote a custom PRISM region adaptor that uses a TransitionalElement from the Microsoft Transitionals project... code available, blog post to come.
Get Application Title from Windows Phone: Paul Sheriff has a cool chunk of code up... getting the Application's title programmatically... and other attributes as well, if you were wondering why you might wanna do that.
Detecting Users Win7 Mobile Theme Color: Mike Snow has a couple as well... first up is how to detect your user's theme... obviously useful if you wanna match it.
Selecting an Item in a ComboBox after Adding Items: Second for Mike Snow is a general Silverlight issue... setting the selected item on a ComboBox after filling it... if you haven't stumbled across this yet, you will...
A Simplified Grid Markup Reloaded: Peter Kuhn has a pair of posts up since last time... this first is an extension of Colin Eberhardt's simplified Grid markup system, but it's only useful if you don't plan on using Blend... can we get a show of hands? :)
Silverlight: Fixing the BookShelf Sample: Next Peter Kuhn has some changes to the Bookshelf code, but more importantly has some excelling tips about shader effects, Effects on Visual Elements and how to make best use of all the above.
Displaying HTML Content in Windows Phone 7: Mike Ormond has a WP7 post up describing problems a customer had early on displaying rich text and an attempt to use the WebBrowser control to pull it off and the problems that caused... check out the resultant code, and read the comments as well.