Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2011 -- #1059

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Published on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:24:52 GMT Indexed on 2011/03/14 8:11 UTC
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In this Issue: András Velvárt, WIndowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Victor Gaudioso, Kunal Chowdhury, Jeremy Likness, Michael Crump, and Dhananjay Kumar.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4" Kunal Chowdhury
WP7:	"Handling WP7 orientation changes via Visual States" András Velvárt

Shoutouts:

Joe McBride gave a MEF Head User Group presentation and has posted How to Become a MEF Head – Slides & Code

From SilverlightCream.com:

Handling WP7 orientation changes via Visual States: András Velvárt has an Expression Blend/WP7 post up discussing WP7 orientation changes and handling them via Visual States ... see an example from his SurfCube app, and a behavior to handle the control... with source.
WP7 PerformanceProgressBar in depth: WIndowsPhoneGeek has a post up discussing the WP7 Performance bar from the Windows Phone Toolkit. This is an update on the Toolkit based on the Feb 2011 release. Great explanation of the PerformanceProgressBar, external links, and sample code.
Getting data out of WP7 WMAppManifest is easy with Coding4Fun PhoneHelper: Next WindowsPhoneGeek has a post up about the PhoneHelper in the Coding4Fun TOolkit, and using it to get data out of the WMAppManifest easily. Good discussion, Links, and code as always
Silverlight Unit Test For Phone: In Jesse Liberty's "Windows Phone From Scratch" number 41, he's discussing Unit Testing for WP7... he gives some good external links and some good examples.
Yet Another Podcast #27–Paul Betts: Jesse Liberty's next post is his "Yet Another Podcast" number 27, and an interview with Paul Betts, the creator of Reactive UI... check out the podcast and also the good links listed.
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to use the Fluid Move Behavior: Victor Gaudioso has a new video tutorial up on using the Fluid Move Behavior... making a selected item animate from a ListBox to a Master Details Grid.
Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4: Kunal Chowdhury takes a break from SilverlightZone long enough to write a post about Application Library Caching... for example on-demand loading of a 3rd-party XAP.
Jounce Part 13: Navigation Parameters: Jeremy Likness has his 13th post of a series in understanding his Jounce MVVM framework up. This episode surrounds a new release and what it contains, the primary focus being navigation parameters... that is you can raise a navigation event with a payload.
Profiling Silverlight Applications after installing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1: Michael Crump digs into the performance wizard for Silverlight that we get with VS2010 SP1. He shows how to get and read a profile... great intro to a new tool.
Binding XML File to Data Grid in Silverlight: Dhananjay Kumar demonstrates reading an XML file using LINQ to XML and binding the result to a Silverlight DataGrid