Silverlight Cream for February 14, 2011 -- #1047

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Published on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:32:03 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/15 7:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Mohamed Mosallem, Tony Champion, Gill Cleeren, Laurent Bugnion, Deborah Kurata, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Tim Heuer, Mike Taulty, John Papa, Martin Krüger, and Jeremy Likness.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Binding to a ComboBox in Silverlight : A Gotcha" Tony Champion
WP7:	"An Ultra Light Windows Phone 7 MVVM Framework" Jeremy Likness

Shoutouts:

Steve Wortham has a post up discussing Silverlight 5, HTML5, and what the future may bring

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (12 of N): Collecting Attendees Feedback using Windows Phone 7: Mohamed Mosallem is up to number 12 in his Silverlight tutorial series. He's continuing his RegistrationBooth app, but this time, he's building a WP7 app to give attendee feedback.
Binding to a ComboBox in Silverlight : A Gotcha: If you've tried to bind to a combobox in Silverlight, you've probably either accomplished this as I have (with help) by having it right once, and continuing, but Tony Champion takes the voodoo out of getting it all working.
Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 5): Gill Cleeren has Part 5 of his exam preparation post up on SilverlightShow. As with the others, he provides many external links to good information.
Referencing a picture in another DLL in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7: Laurent Bugnion explains the pitfalls and correct way to reference an image from a dll... good info for loading images such as icons for Silverlight in general and WP7 also.
Silverlight MVVM Commanding II: Deborah Kurata has a part 2 up on MVVM Commanding. The first part covered the built-in commanding for controls that inherit from ButtonBase... this post goes beyond that into other Silverlight controls.
Reactive Drag and Drop Part 1: This Drag and Drop with Rx post by Jesse Liberty is the 4th in his Rx series. He begins with a video from the Rx team and applies reactive programming to mouse movements.
Yet Another Podcast #24–Reactive Extensions: On the heels of his previous post on Rx, in his latest 'Yet Another Podcast', Jesse Liberty chats with Matthew Podwysocki and Bart De Smet about Reactive Extensions.
Silverlight 4 February 2011 Update Released Today: Tim Heuer announced the release of the February 2011 Silverlight 4 release. Check out Tim's post for information about what's contained in this release.
Blend Bits 25–Templating Part 3: In his 3rd Templating tutorial in BlendBits, Mike Taulty demonstrates the 'Make into Control' option rather than the other way around.
Silverlight TV 61: Expert Chat on Deep Zoom, Touch, and Windows Phone: John Papa interviews David Kelley in the latest Silverlight TV... David is discussing touch in Silverlight and for WP7 and his WP7 apps in the marketplace.
Simple Hyperlinkbutton style: Martin Krüger has a cool Hyperlink style available at the Expression Gallery. Interesting visual for entertaining your users.
An Ultra Light Windows Phone 7 MVVM Framework: Jeremy Likness takes his knowledge of MVVM (Jounce), and WP7 and takes a better look at what he'd really like to have for a WP7 framework.