Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2011 -- #1026

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Published on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:00:46 GMT Indexed on 2011/01/14 5:54 UTC
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In this Issue: András Velvárt, Tony Champion, Joost van Schaik, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, John Papa, Michael Crump, Sacha Barber, Alex Knight, Peter Kuhn, Senthil Kumar, Mike Hole, and WindowsPhoneGeek.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Create Custom Speech Bubbles in Silverlight." Michael Crump
WP7:	"Architecting WP7 - Part 9 of 10: Threading" Shawn Wildermuth
Expression Blend:	"PathListBox: Text on the path" Alex Knight

From SilverlightCream.com:

Behaviors for accessing the Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace and getting feedback: András Velvárt shares almost insider information about how to get some user interaction with your WP7 app in the form of feedback ... he has 4 behaviors taken straight from his very cool SufCube app that he's sharing.
Reloading a Collection in the PivotViewer: Tony Champion keeps working with the PivotViewer ... this time discussing the fact that you can't Reload or Refresh the current collection from the server ... at least not initially, but he did find one :)
Tombstoning MVVMLight ViewModels with SilverlightSerializer on Windows Phone 7: Joost van Schaik takes a shot at helping us all with Tombstoning a WP7 app... he's using Mike Talbot's SilverlightSerializer and created extension methods for it for tombstoning that he's willing to share with us.
Windows Phone From Scratch #17: MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts Part 2: Jesse Liberty is up to Part 17 in his WP7 series, and this is the 2nd post on MVVMLight and WP7, and is digging into behaviors.
Architecting WP7 - Part 9 of 10: Threading: Shawn Wildermuth is up to part 9 of 10 in his series on Architecting WP7 apps. This episode finds Shawn discussing Threading ... know how to use and choose between BackgroundWorker and ThreadPool? ... Shawn will explain.
Silverlight TV 57: Performance Tuning Your Apps: In the latest Silverlight TV, John Papa chats with Mike Cook about tuning your Silverlight app to get the performance up there where your users will be happy.
Create Custom Speech Bubbles in Silverlight.: Michael Crump's already gotten a lot of airplay out of this, but it's so cool.. comic-style callout shapes without using the dlls that you normally would... in other words, paths, and very cool hand-drawn looks on some too... very cool, Michael!
Showcasing Cinch MVVM framework / PRISM 4 interoperability: Sacha Barber has a post up on CodeProject that demonstratest using Cinch and Prism4 together... handily using MEF since Cinch relies on MEFedMVVM... this is a heck of a post... lots of code, lots of explanations.
PathListBox: Text on the path: Alex Knight keeps making this PathListBox series better ... this time he is putting text on the path... moving text... too cool, Alex!
Windows Phone 7: Pinch Gesture Sample: Peter Kuhn digs into the WP7 toolkit and examines GestureListener, pinch events, and clipping... examples and code supplied.
How to change the StartPage of the Windows Phone 7 Application in Visual Studio 2010 ?: Senthil Kumar discusses how to change the StartPage of your WP7 app, or get the program running if you happen to move or rename MainPage.xaml
WP7 Text Boxes – OnEnter (my 1st Behaviour): Mike Hole has a post up about the issue with the keyboard appearing in front of the textbox, and maybe using the enter key to drop it... and he's developed a behavior for that process.
WP7 ContextMenu in depth | Part1: key concepts and API: WindowsPhoneGeek has some good articles that I haven't posted, but I'll catch up. This one is a nice tutorial on the WP7 Context menu... good explanation, diagrams, and code.