Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 -- #1028

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Published on Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:20:45 GMT Indexed on 2011/01/16 0:54 UTC
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Note to #1024 Swag Winners: I'm sending emails to the vendors Sunday night, thanks for your patience (a few of you have not contacted me yet)

In this Issue: Ezequiel Jadib, Daniel Egan(-2-), Page Brooks, Jason Zander, Andrej Tozon, Marlon Grech, Jonathan van de Veen, Walt Ritscher, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Sacha Barber, William E. Burrows, and WindowsPhoneGeek.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Building a Radar Control in Silverlight - Part 1" Page Brooks
WP7:	"Tutorial: Dynamic Tile Push Notification for Windows Phone 7" Jason Zander
Training:	"WP7 Unleashed Session I–Hands on Labs" Daniel Egan

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Rough Cut Editor SP1 Released: Ezequiel Jadib has an announcement about the Rough Cut Editor SP1 release, and he walks you through the content, installation and a bit of the initial use.
WP7 Unleashed Session I–Hands on Labs: Daniel Egan posted Part 1 of 3 of a new WP7 HOL ... video online and material to download... get 'em while they're hot!
WP7 Saving to Media Library: Daniel Egan has another post up as well on saving an image to the media library... not the update from Tim Heuer... all good info
Building a Radar Control in Silverlight - Part 1: This freakin' cool post from Page Brooks is the first one of a series on building a 'Radar Control' in Silverlight ... seriously, go to the bottom and run the demo... I pretty much guarantee you'll take the next link which is download the code... don't forget to read the article too!
Tutorial: Dynamic Tile Push Notification for Windows Phone 7: Jason Zander has a nice-looking tutorial up on dynamic tile notifications... good diagrams and discussion and plenty of code.
Reactive.buffering.from event.: Andrej Tozon is continuing his Reactive Extensions posts with this one on buffering: BufferWithTime and BufferWIthCount ... good stuff, good write-up, and the start of a WP7 game?
MEFedMVVM with PRISM 4: Marlon Grech combines his MEFedMVVM with Prism 4, and says it was easy... check out the post and the code.
Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #40: Jonathan van de Veen has a discussion up about things you need to pay attention to as your project gets close to first deployment... lots of good information to think about Silverlight or not.
Customize Windows 7 Preview pane for XAML files: Walt Ritscher has a (very easy) XAML extension for Windows 7 that allows previewing of XAML files in an explorer window... as our UK friends say "Brilliant!"
Entity Framework Code-First, oData & Windows Phone Client: From the never-ending stream of posts that is Jesse Liberty comes this one on EF Code-First... so Jesse's describing Code-First and OData all wrapped up about a WP7 app
Sterling Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Database Triggers and Auto-Identity: Sterling and Database Triggers sitting in a tree... woot for WP7 from Jeremy Likness... provides database solutions including Validation, Data-specific concerns such as 'last modified', and post-save processing ... all good, Jeremy!
A Look At Fluent APIs: Sacha Barber has a great post up that isn't necessarily Silverlight, but is it? ... we've been hearing a lot about Fluent APIs... read on to see what the buzz is.
Windows Phone 7 - Part 3 - Final Application: William E. Burrows has Part 3 of his WP7 tutorial series up... this one completing the Golf Handicap app by giving the user the ability to manage scores.
User Control vs Custom Control in Silverlight for WP7: WindowsPhoneGeek has a great diagram and description-filled post up on User Controls and Custom Controls in WP7... good external links too.