Silverlight Cream for February 06, 2011 -- #1042

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Published on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:56:45 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/07 7:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Mike Taulty, Timmy Kokke, Laurent Bugnion, Arik Poznanski, Deyan Ginev, Deborah Kurata(-2-), Johnny Tordgeman, Roy Dallal, Jaime Rodriguez, Samuel Jack(-2-), James Ashley.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Customizing Silverlight properties for Visual Designers" Timmy Kokke
WP7:	"Back button press when using webbrowser control in WP7" Jaime Rodriguez
Expression Blend:	"Blend Bits 21–Importing from Photoshop & Illustrator…" Mike Taulty

From SilverlightCream.com:

Blend Bits 21–Importing from Photoshop & Illustrator…: Mike Taulty is up to 21 episodes on his Blend Bits sequence now, and this one is about using Blend's import capability, such as a .psd file with all the layers intact.
Customizing Silverlight properties for Visual Designers: Timmy Kokke has part 1 of 2 parts on making your Silverlight control properties in design surfaces such as Visual Studio designer or Expression Blend.
An error when installing MVVM Light templates for VS10 Express: Laurent Bugnion has released a new version of MVVMLight that resolves a problem with VS2010 Express version of the templates... no problem with anything else.
Reading RSS items on Windows Phone 7: Arik Poznanski has a post up about reading RSS on a WP7, but better yet, he also has code for a helper class that you can grab, plus explanation of wiring it up.
Integrating your Windows Phone unit tests with MSBuild #4: The WP7 Unit Test Application: Deyan Ginev has a post up about Telerik's WP7 test app that outputs test results in XML from the emulator so they can be integrated with the MSBuild log.
Accessing Data in a Silverlight Application: EF: I apprently missed this post by Deborah Kurata last week on bringing data into your Silverlight app via Entity Frameworks... good detailed tutorial in VB and C#.
Updating Data in a Silverlight Application: EF: In Deborah Kurata's latest post, she is continuing with Entity Frameworks by demonstrating updating to the database... full source code will be produced in a later post.
Fun with Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Control - Part 2 - An In Depth Look At The Ribbon Control: Johnny Tordgeman has Part 2 of his Silverlight and Sharepoint 2010 Ribbon up... taking a deep-dive into the ribbon... great explanation of the attributes, code included.
Geographic Coordinates Systems: Roy Dallal has some Geo code up that's not necessarily Silverlight, but very cool if you're doing any GIS programming... ya gotta know the coordinate systems!
Back button press when using webbrowser control in WP7: Jaime Rodriguez has a post up discussing the much-lamented back-button action in the certification requirements and how to deal with that in a web browser app.
Multiplayer-enabling my Windows Phone 7 game: Day 1: Samuel Jack challenged himself to build a WP7 game in 3 days... now he's challenging himself to make it multiplayer in 3 days... this first hour-to-hour post is research of networking and an azure server-side solution.
Multiplayer-enabling my Windows Phone 7 game: Day 2–Building a UI with XPF: Day 2 for Samuel Jack getting the multiplayer portion of his game working in 3 days.. this day involves getting up-to-speed with XPF.
How to Hotwire your WP7 Phone Battery: Did you realize if you run your WP7 battery completely down that you can't charge it? James Ashley reports that circumstance, and how he resolved it.