Silverlight Cream for February 17, 2011 -- #1048

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Published on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:44:09 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/18 7:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Oren Gal, Andrea Boschin(-2-), Kevin Hoffman, Rudi Grobler(-2-, -3-), Michael Crump, Yochay Kiriaty, Peter Kuhn, Loek van den Ouweland, Jeremy Likness, Jesse Liberty, and WindowsPhoneGeek.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Multiple page printing in Silverlight4 - Part 2 - preview before printing" Oren Gal
WP7:	"Windows Phone 7 Tombstoning with MVVM and Sterling" Jeremy Likness
XNA:	"XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 4 - Animation (frame-based)" Peter Kuhn

From SilverlightCream.com:

Multiple page printing in Silverlight4 - Part 2 - preview before printing: Oren Gal has part 2 of his Printing with Silverlight 4 series up, and this time he's putting up a preview... how cool is that?
Inject ApplicationServices with MEF reloaded: supporting recomposition: Andrea Boschin revisited his Inject ApplicationServices with MEF post because of feedback, and took it from the realm of an interesting example to a useful solution.
Windows Phone 7 - Part #5: Panorama and Pivot controls: Andrea Boschin also has part 5 of his WP7 series up at SilverlightShow... want a good demo of both the panorama and the pivot controls... here it is all in one tutorial
WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Introduction to C#: This should be good.. a 12-part series on SilverlightShow by Kevin Hoffman on porting your iPhone/Android app to WP7... this first part an intro to C#
Balls of Steel: Rudi Grobler discusses the upcoming (?) release of 'Duke Nukem Forever', and has a 'soundboard' for WP7 to celebrate the event... get your Duke Nukem on with these sounds!
Moonlight 4 (Preview) is here: Rudi Grobler also has a post up about the release of Moonlight by Novel for Silverlight 4!... explanation and links on his post.
WP7 Podcasts: Rudi Grobler highlights two WP7 Podcasts that are putting out good material... check them out if you haven't already.
Having Fun with Coding4Fun’s Windows Phone 7 Controls: Michael Crump takes a look at his WP7 app and uses the Coding4Fun project toolset while doing so... getting the tools, setting them up, and consuming them.
Windows Phone Silverlight Application Faster Load Time: Yochay Kiriaty has a good long discussion up about how to get faster load time out of your WP7 apps... good useful external links throughout.
XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 4 - Animation (frame-based): Peter Kuhn's part 4 of his XNA for Silverlight devs is up at Silverlightshow and is a great tutorial on frame-based animation.
Windows Phone SoundEffect clipping: Loek van den Ouweland has some good information about soudn clips on WP7... the solutions aren't always code solutions.... good to know info.
Windows Phone 7 Tombstoning with MVVM and Sterling: Jeremy Likness is discussing Tombstoning via MVVM and Sterling... read on how Sterling gives you a leg up on the Tombstone express.
Video: Reactive Phone Programming For Windows Phone 7: Fitting in nicely with his podcast on Reactive Programming, Jesse Liberty releases a video on Reactive Programming for WP7.
Talking about Data Binding in WP7 | Coding4fun TextBoxBinding helper in depth: WindowsPhoneGeek's latest post walks through WP7 databinding in detail with lots of good external links, then follows up with a discussion of the Coding4Fun Binding Helpers