Silverlight Cream for February 13, 2011 -- #1046

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Published on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:16:37 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/13 23:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Loek van den Ouweland, Colin Eberhardt, Rudi Grobler, Joost van Schaik, Mike Taulty(-2-, -3-), Deborah Kurata, David Kelley, Peter Foot, Samuel Jack(-2-), and WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-).

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight Simple MVVM Commanding" Deborah Kurata
WP7:	"WP7 CustomInputPrompt control with Cancel button" WindowsPhoneGeek
Expression Blend:	"Silverlight Templated Image Button with two images" Loek van den Ouweland

Shoutouts:

Dave Campbell posted a write-up about the project he's on and the use of Sterling: Sterling Object-Oriented Database for ISO 1.0 Released!... Also see Jeremy Likness' post on the 1.0 release: Sterling Object-Oriented Database 1.0 RTM

Not necessarily Silverlight, but darn cool, a great control by Sasha Barber: WPF : A Weird 3d based control

snoutholder announced new content: Windows Phone 7 QuickStarts Live!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Templated Image Button with two images: Loek van den Ouweland has a video tutorial up for creating an ImageButton with a hover state... Expression Blend coolness, and check out the external links he has to their training site.
Windows Phone 7 Performance Measurements – Emulator vs. Hardware: Colin Eberhardt's latest is a popular post comparing performance metrics between the WP7 emulator and a real device. Mileage may vary, but I'm pretty sure the overall results are conculsive, and should help the way you view your app as you're building in the emulator.
WP7: WebClient vs HttpWebRequest: Rudi Grobler's latest is a discussion of WebClient and HttpWebRequest, gives coding examples of each plus discussion of why you may choose one over the other... and pay attention to his comment about mobile providers.
A Blendable Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight clipping behavior: Joost van Schaik posted this WP7/Silverlight clipping behavior he developed because all the other solutions were not blendable. Another really useful piece of code from Joost!
Blend Bits 22–Being Stylish: Mike Taulty has 3 more episodes in his Blend Bits series... first up is on one Styles... explicit, implicit, inheriting... you name it, he's covering it!
Blend Bits 23–Templating Part 1: MIke Taulty then has the beginning of a series within his Blend Bits series on Templating. This is something you just have to either bite the bullet and go with Blend to do, or consume someone else's work. Mike shows us how to do it ourself by tweaking the visual aspects of a checkbox
Blend Bits 24–Templating Part 2: In part 2 of the Templating series, Mike Taulty digs deeper into Blend and cracks open the Listbox control to take a bunch of the inner elements out for a spin... fun stuff and great tutorial, Mike!
Silverlight Simple MVVM Commanding: Deborah Kurata has another great MVVM post up... if you don't have your head wrapped around commanding yet, this is a good place to start that process... VB and C# as always.
App Development for Windows Phone 7 101: David Kelley goes through the basics of producing a WP7 app both from the Silverlight and XNA side... good info and good external links to get you going.
Copyable TextBlock for Windows Phone: Peter Foot takes a look at the Copy/Paste functionality in WP7 and how to apply it to a TextBlock... which is NOT an out-of-the-box solution.
How to deploy to, and debug, multiple instances of the Windows Phone 7 emulator: Samuel Jack has a couple posts up this week... first is this clever one on running multiple copies of the emulator at once... too cool for debugging a multi-player game!
Multi-player enabling my Windows Phone 7 game: Day 3 – The Server Side: Samuel Jack's latest is a detailed look at his day 3 adventure of taking his multi-player game to WP7... lots of information and external links... what do you say, give him another day? :)
WP7 CustomInputPrompt control with Cancel button: WindowsPhoneGeek has a couple more posts up... first is this "CustomInputPrompt" control based off the InputPrompt from Coding4Fun.
Implementing Windows Phone 7 DataTemplateSelector and CustomDataTemplateSelector: In his latest post, WindowsPhoneGeek writes a DataTemplateSelector to allow different data templates for different list elements based on the type of the element.