Silverlight Cream for March 07, 2011 -- #1055

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Published on Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:22:15 GMT Indexed on 2011/03/08 8:11 UTC
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In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Chris Rouw, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Simon Guindon, and Dhananjay Kumar.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Faster Databinding in WPF and Silverlight using OptimizedObservableCollection" Simon Guindon
WP7:	"Phoney Tools Updated (WP7 Open Source Library)" Shawn Wildermuth

From SilverlightCream.com:

Problems With Sharing Windows Phone 7 Applications Within A Large Group Of Beta Testers: Max Paulousky has a post up discussing the issues surrounding beta testing a WP7 app with a large group of testers... and how to pull it all off.
WP7 Insights #1: Consuming REST APIs within a WP7 app: Chris Rouw is beginning a WP7 series based on his recent experience of getting a client's app into the marketplace. This first in his series is on consuming REST APIs ... lots of good code and explanations.
Improving Windows Phone 7 application performance is even easier with these LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox updates: David Anson has an update to his LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox after issues brought up by readers... so we all win with the great feedback from alert devs.
When Isolated Storage Isn’t Enough: Jesse Liberty started looking at Jeremy Likness' Sterling with this post in the WP7 From Scratch series. He starts with downloading it from CodePlex ... great way to get into Sterling if you haven't already.
Phoney Tools Updated (WP7 Open Source Library): Shawn Wildermuth has the latest drop of his Phoney Tools up... this is the last Alpha. I've added a tag for it as well. He's fixed some things, added others... check out the post and go grab the code.
Faster Databinding in WPF and Silverlight using OptimizedObservableCollection: Simon Guindon is a blogger I've not been following, but this post on an OptimizedObservableCollection caught my eye. He added an AddRange() to the ObservableCollection to get a speed enhancement when adding items... and a pretty good speed enhancement it is.
Reading files asynchronously using WebClient class in Silverlight: Dhananjay Kumar is another prolific blogger that I've not been following, so we'll start with his latest... a step-by-step guide to reading an XML file asynchronously.