Silverlight Cream for February 22, 2011 -- #1050

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Published on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:09:28 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/23 7:26 UTC
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In this Issue: Robby Ingebretsen, Victor Gaudioso, Andrea Boschin(-2-), Rudi Grobler(-2-), Michael Crump, Deborah Kurata, Dennis Delimarsky, Pete Vickers, Yochay Kiriaty, Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek, and Jesse Liberty(-2-).

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight Simple MVVM Printing" Deborah Kurata
WP7:	"Creating theme friendly UI in WP7 using OpacityMask" WindowsPhoneGeek
Tools:	"KAXAML v1.8" Robby Ingebretsen

Shoutouts:

Peter Foot posted Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit–Feb 2011

Rudi Grobler posts his top requested features for WP7, Silverlight, and WCF: vNext ... see you in Seattle, Rudi!

From SilverlightCream.com:

KAXAML v1.8: Robby Ingebretsen just posted KAXML v1.8 that now supports .NET 4.0, WPF, and Silferlight4 ... go grab it.
Learn how to use Blend to create a Data Store, Add Properties to it, etc...: Victor Gaudioso has 3 new Silverlight and/or Expression Blend video tutorials up... first is this one on Creating a Data store, adding properties to it, oh... read the title :), Next up is: Send async messages across UserControls or even applications, followed by the latest: Create a Sketchflow Animation using the Sketchflow Animation Panel
A base class for threaded Application Services: Andrea Boschin continues his IApplicationServices series with this one on a base class he created to develop Application Services that runs a thread.
Windows Phone 7 - Part #6: Taking advantage of the phone: Andrea Boschin also has part 6 of his series at SilverlightShow on WP7... this one is covering a bunch of items... Capabilities, Launchers/Choosers, and gestures... plus the source for a fun game.
{homebrew} Skype for WP7: Rudi Grobler posted about the availability of (some features of) Skype for WP7 being available. The XDA guys have working contacts and the ability to chat going, plus they're looking for poeple to join in... Follow Rudi's link, and let them know you're up for it!
Simple menu for your WP7 application: Rudi Grobler has another post up about a very simple menu control for WP7 that he produced that is also very easy to use.
Attaching a Command to the WP7 Application Bar: Michael Crump shows how to bind the application bar to a Relay Command with the use of MVVMLight in 7 Easy Steps :)
Silverlight Simple MVVM Printing: Deborah Kurata continues her MVVM series with this one on printing what your user sees on the page... but doing so within the MVVM pattern.
Enhancing the general Zune experience on Windows Phone 7 with Zune web API: Dennis Delimarsky apparently likes the Zune as much as I do, and has ratted out tons of information about the Zune API for use in WP7 apps... and lots of code...
Validating input forms in Windows Phone 7: Pete Vickers takes a great detailed spin through validation on the WP7... the rules have changed, but Pete explains with some code examples.
Windows Phone Shake Gestures Library: Yochay Kiriaty discusses Shake Gestures for the WP7 device and then describes the "Windows Phone Shake Gesture Library" that detects shake gestures in 3D space... and after a great description has the link for downloading.
What difference does a sprite sheet make?: Peter Kuhn is writing a series at SilverlightShow on XNA for Silverlight Devs that I've highlighted. An outshoot of that is this discussion of the use of sprite sheets and game development.
Creating theme friendly UI in WP7 using OpacityMask: WindowsPhoneGeek has a new post up today on using Opacity Masks in WP7 to enable using one set of icons for either the dark or light theme.. too cool, you'll wanna check this out!
Linq to XML: Jesse Liberty continues with Linq with regard to WP7 with this post on Linq to XML... and why XML? crap... I was just saving/loading XML today! :)
Lambda–Not as weird as it sounds: Jesse Liberty then jumps into Lambda expressions... maybe it's a chance for me to learn WTF the lambdas really do that I use all the time!