Silverlight Cream for February 07, 2011 -- #1043

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Published on Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:38:45 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/08 7:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Roy Dallal, Kevin Dockx, Gill Cleeren, Oren Gal, Colin Eberhardt, Rudi Grobler, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Jeremy Likness, Martin Krüger(-2-), Beth Massi, and Michael Crump.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"A Circular ProgressBar Style using an Attached ViewModel" Colin Eberhardt
WP7:	"Isolated Storage" Jesse Liberty
Lightswitch:	"How To Create Outlook Appointments from a LightSwitch Application" Beth Massi

Shoutouts:

Gergely Orosz has a summary of his 4-part series on Styles in Silverlight: Everything a Developer Needs To Know

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Memory Leak, Part 2: Roy Dallal has part 2 of his memory leak posts up... and discusses the results of runnin VMMap and some hints on how to make best use of it.
Using a Channel Factory in Silverlight (instead of adding a Service Reference). With cows.: Kevin Dockx has a post up for those of you that don't like the generated code that comes about when adding a service reference, and the answer is a Channel Factory... and he has an example app in the post that populates a list of cows... honest ... check it out.
Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 4): Gill Cleeren has Part 4 of his deep-dive into studying for the Silverlight Certification exam. This time out he's got probably half a gazillion links for working with data... seriously!
Sync unlimited instances of one Silverlight application: How about a cross-browser sync of an unlimited number of instances of the same Silverlight app... Oren Gal has just that going on, and discusses his first two attempts and how he finally honed in on the solution.
A Circular ProgressBar Style using an Attached ViewModel: Wow... check out what Colin Eberhardt's done with the "Progress Bar" ... using an Attached View Model which he discussed in a post a while back... these are awesome!
WP7 - Professional Audio Recorder: Rudi Grobler discusses an audio recorder for WP7 that uses the NAudio audio library for not only the recording but visualization.
Isolated Storage: Jesse Liberty's got his 30th 'From Scratch' post up and this time he's talking about Isolated Storage.
Learning OData? MSDN and Shawn Wildermuth has the videos for you!: Shawn Wildermuth produced a couple series of videos for MSDN on OData: Getting Started and Consuming OData... get the link on Shawn's post.
Creating Sample Data from a Class - Page 1: Kirupa Chinnathambi shows us how to use a schema of your own design in Blend... yet still have Blend produce sample data
A Pivot-Style Data Grid without the DataGrid: Jeremy Likness discusses the lack of an open-source grid with dynamic columns ... let him know if you've done one! ... and then he continues on to demonstrate his build-out of the same.
Synchronize a freeform drawing and a real path creation: Martin Krüger has a few new samples up in the Expression Gallery. This first is taking mouse movement in an InkPresenter and creating path statements from it in a canvas and playing them back.
How to: use Storyboard completed behaviors: Martin Krüger's next post is about Storyboards and firing one off the end of another, in Blend... so he ended up producing a behavior for doing that... and it's in the Expression Gallery
How To Create Outlook Appointments from a LightSwitch Application: Beth Massi has a new Lightswitch post up... her previous was email from Lightswitch... this is Outlook appointments... pretty darn cool.
Quick run through of the WP7 Developer Tools January 2011: Michael Crump has a really good Quick look at the new WP7 Dev Tools that were released last week posted on his blog