Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2011 -- #1056

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Published on Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:08:38 GMT Indexed on 2011/03/09 8:11 UTC
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In this Issue: Joost van Schaik, Manas Patnaik, Kevin Hoffman, Jesse Liberty, Deborah Kurata, Dhananjay Kumar, Dennis Delimarsky, Samuel Jack, Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek, and Jfo.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"How I let the trees grow" Peter Kuhn
WP7:	"Simple Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight drag/flick behavior" Joost van Schaik

Shoutouts:

SilverlightShow has their top 5 from last week posted, plus the ECOContest is ready to be voted on: SilverlightShow for Feb 28 - March 06, 2011

Drew DeVault is a young man involved with the Microsoft Student Insiders. He gave a WP7 presentation at RMTT and has posted his material: Post-Session: Windows Phone 7 @ RMTT

Rui Marinho has an app in the ECO Contest called Forest Findr. is based on the BIng Map Control for silverlight and Sql Spatial data, and helps you find Forests and get geolocated pictures and wikipedia information, and has a post up with a bunch of info on it here: Forest Findr. my entry on the SilverlightShow EcoContest

From SilverlightCream.com:

Simple Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight drag/flick behavior: Joost van Schaik has a behavior that makes *anything* draggable and 'flickable' in WP7 ... read the intro, scroll to the bottom to watch the demo, and then grab up the code... cool stuff, Joost!
Data Aggregation Using Presentation Model in RIA and Silverlight 4: Manas Patnaik sent me a link to his blog, and it appears he's got lots of Silverlight goodness out there so you'll be hearing more about him. This first post is on the Presentation Model in RIA and Silverlight 4... good discussion, diagrams and code... good job, Manas!
WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Advanced UI: Kevin Hoffman has part 3 of an ambitious 12-part tutorial series up on WP7 development ... this go-around is concentrating on Advanced UI - Panorama/Pivot controls, DataBinding, ObservableCollections, and Converters... whew!
Sterling DB on top of Isolated Storage – 2: Jesse Liberty has part 2 of his Sterling series up... this time setting up the database in App.xaml so it can be used for dealing with tombstoning.
Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Tick Marks: Deborah Kurata's next chart tutorial is all about showing you how to continue to dress up your charts.. this time by formatting the tick marks... if you don't know what that is... check out the first image in the post.
Stored Procedure in WCF Data Service: Dhananjay Kumar has a very nice tutorial up on using a stored proc with WCF Data Services... I happen to know someone working on just that at this time. If you have this in mind, here's a step-by-step guide to getting it done.
Windows Phone 7 – Episode 5 – Pages: Dennis Delimarsky has part 5 of his WP7 tutorial series up and is discussing Pages in this 17 minute video.
Unpacking Simon Squared: My mini framework-independent animation library: Samuel Jack has not only Open-Sourced the WP7 game he built and blogged about, but he's now explaining some of the structure of the game in posts such as this one about the animation library he wrote that his game is built on.
How I let the trees grow: Peter Kuhn shares with us the code he used for the tree animation in his ECO Contest entry. There's a lot to learn in this post about performance ... the fully-animated tree has about 20K elements... 5K branches and 20K leaves... check it out.
WP7 ToastPrompt in depth: WindowsPhoneGeek takes a deep dive into the ToastPrompt control in the Coding4fun Toolkit... everything you need to completely use the control including sample code.
Beware the loaded event: Jfo talks about another frustration point she had with WP7 development, and that is around the use of the loaded event... read these tips from someone that's been there.