Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2011 -- #1058

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Published on Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:17:19 GMT Indexed on 2011/03/11 8:11 UTC
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In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey, Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Martin Krüger, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Karl Shifflett, and Colin Eberhardt.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight TV 65: 3D Graphics" John Papa
WP7:	"Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control" Colin Eberhardt

Shoutouts:

Telerik announced a special sale on their RadControls for WP7... check it out: RadControls for Windows Phone 7 - on Sale from March 16th at a Special Promo Price!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Prism BootStrapper Load ModuleCatalog Ansyc: Ian T. Lackey has a post up about reading the module catalog for Prism from an XML file asynchronously... fun stuff... this is how we kick-started our app...
XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 6 - Input (accelerometer): Peter Kuhn has Part 6 of his XNA for Silverlight devs up at SilverlightShow. This post is on the use of the accelerometer... some great diagrams and explanations of it's use along with some code to play with... including a 'problems and pitfalls' section, and some good external links.
Getting Started with Unit Testing in Silverlight for WP7: WindowsPhoneGeek has an introduction to Unit Testing in general, and then moves into Unit Testing in Silverlight for WP7, providing 3 options with links to the materials and code demonstrating the concepts.
Using DockPanel in WP7: Responding to reader's questions, WindowsPhoneGeek's next post is on the DockPanel from the Silverlight Toolkit, and using it in WP7... defined declaratively and in code.
Reactive Extensions–More About Chaining: Jesse Liberty has post number 10 on Rx up and is a follow-on to the last one on Chaining. This time he exercises the chaining aspect of SelectMany.
Yet Another Podcast #26–Walt Ritscher: In his next post, Jesse Liberty has his 26th 'Yet Another Podcast' up and is chatting with my friend Walt Ritscher. If you don't know who Walt is, check out the links Jesse has on the post... I'm sure you've crossed paths.
How to: Create A half square from a regular polygon (triangle): Martin Krüger demonstrates the exact placement of a half-square (isosceles right triangle), formed with a regular polygon in Blend... this is much more involved than I've made it sound... check out his post.
Silverlight TV 65: 3D Graphics: John Papa has Silverlight TV number 65 up and it's all about the 3D graphics stuff we saw at the Firestarter. John is talking with Danny Riddel, the CEO of Archetype, the company that built the awesome 3D demo we all gushed over.
Jounce Part 12: Providing History-Based Back Navigation: Jeremy Likness has part 12 of his Jounce exploration up... and discussing the stack of navigated pages that Jounce retains and providing a 'go back' functionality... and provides a good example of using it all.
Prism 4 Region Navigation with Silverlight Frame Navigation and Unity: Karl Shifflett has a post for all us Prism afficianados... Prism, Unity, and the Silverlight Frame Navigation framework. Some great external links for 'required reading' too.
Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control: Colin Eberhardt has an awesome tutorial up for creating a JumpList control for WP7... what a bunch of effort... this is a step-by-step description of designing the control he built and blogged about a while back... and it's still cool!