Silverlight Cream for February 04, 2011 -- #1040

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Published on Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:34:34 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/06 23:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, John Papa, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Mike Wolf, Matt Casto, Levente Mihály, Roy Dallal, Mark Monster, Andrea Boschin, and Oren Gal.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Accept and Cancel Buttons Behavior in Silverlight" Matt Casto
WP7:	"Windows Phone 7 Runtime Debugging" Mike Wolf

Shoutouts:

Al Pascual announced a get-together if you're going to be in Phoenix on February 10 (next Thursday)... I just can't tell what time it is from the page: Phoenix Dev Meet-Up

From SilverlightCream.com:

Ten Pet Peeves of WP7 Applications: Check out Shawn Wildermuth's Top 10 annoyances when trying out any new app on the WP7... if you're a dev, you might want to keep these in mind.
Silverlight TV 60: Checking Out the Zero Gravity Game, Now on Windows Phone 7: John Papa has Silverlight TV number 60 up and this one features Phoenix' own Ryan Plemons discussing the game Zero Gravity and some of the things he had to do to take the game to WP7 ... and the presentation looks as good from here as it did inside the studio :)
The Full Stack: Entity Framework To Phone, The Server Side: Jesse Liberty and Jon Galloway have Part 6 of their full-stack podcast up ... this is their exploration of MVC3, ASP.NET, Silverlight, and WP7... pair programming indeed!
Life Cycle: Page State Management: Jesse Liberty also has episode 29 (can you believe that??) of his Windows Phone From Scratch series up ... he's continuing his previous LifeCycle discussion with Page State Management this time.
Windows Phone 7 Runtime Debugging: Mike Wolf is one of those guys that when he blogs, we should all pay attention, and this post is no exception... he has contributed a run-time diagnostics logger to the WP7Contrib project ... wow... too cool!
Accept and Cancel Buttons Behavior in Silverlight: Matt Casto has his blog back up and has a behavior up some intuitive UX on ChildWindows by being able to bind to a default or cancel button and have those events activated when the user hits Enter or Escape... very cool, Matt!
A classic memory game: Part 3 - Porting the game to Windows Phone 7: Levente Mihály has Part 3 of his tutorial series up at SilverlightShow, and this go-around is porting his 'memory game' to WP7... and this is pretty all-encompassing... Blend for the UI, Performance, and Tombstoning... plus all the source.
Silverlight Memory Leak, Part 1: Roy Dallal completely describes how he used a couple easily-downloadable tools to find the root cause of his memory problems with is Silvleright app. Lots of good investigative information.
How to cancel the closing of your Silverlight application (in-browser and out-of-browser): Mark Monster revisits a two-year old post of his on cancelling the closing of a Silverlight app... and he's bringing that concept of warning the user the he's about to exit into the OOB situation as well.
Windows Phone 7 - Part #3: Understanding navigation: Also continuing his WP7 tutorial series on SilverlightShow, Andrea Boschin has part 3 up which is all about Navigation and preserving state... he also has a video on the page to help demonstrate the GoBack method.
Multiple page printing in Silverlight 4: Oren Gal built a Silverlight app for last years' ESRI dev summit, and decided to upgrade it this year with functionality such as save/restore, selecting favorite sessions, and printing.