Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2011 -- #1061

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Published on Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:34:57 GMT Indexed on 2011/03/17 8:10 UTC
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In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Emil Stoychev, Viktor Larsson(-2-), Kevin Hoffman, Rudi Grobler, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Martin Krüger.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Image comparison using a GridSplitter" Martin Krüger
WP7:	"Using WP7 accent color effectively" Viktor Larsson
XNA:	"XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 7 - Collision detection" Peter Kuhn

From SilverlightCream.com:

XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 7 - Collision detection: Peter Kuhn has part 7 of his XNA for Silverlight devs tutorial series up at SilverlightShow... discussing Collision detection... something you need to get your head around if you're going to do a game.
Interview with John Papa about the upcoming MIX11 event and the Open Source Fest: Emil Stoychev of SilverlightShow reverses the roles with John Papa and interviews John on this MIX11 and Open Source Fest discussion they had at the MVP Summit
Debugging Videos or Camera in WP7: Viktor Larsson has a quick post up on the 3 ways of debugging a WP7 app and why and under what circumstances you should change debug method.
Using WP7 accent color effectively: Viktor Larsson's next post is about the 10 accent colors available on WP7 devices. He shows how to make best use of that capability in XAML and runtime code.
WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Hardware and Device Services: Kevin Hoffman's part 4 of a 12-part tutorial series at SilverlightShow on WP7 for iPhone/Android devs is up ... this oe concentrates on Hardware and Device Services... Launchers/Choosers/Sensors.
How to publish WP7 applications if you live in the Middle-east & Africa region: Rudi Grobler has a short post up on a legit way to publish WP7 apps if you are in the MEA region.
Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Sample Theme Implementation: WindowsPhoneGeek has a new post up and he's starting a series of 3 articles on Creating Wp7 Custom Themes... first up is this tutorial on Basic Theme Implementation... and use it as well.
From Android to Windows Phone: For "Windows Phone from Scratch #43", Jesse Liberty begins a series on moving apps from Android to WP7, beginning with a tip calculating program.
Yet Another Podcast #28–Jeremy Likness: Jesse Liberty's next post is his "Yet Another Podcast #28" with Jeremy Likness this time around... the list of all things fun that Jeremy's involved in is getting long... should be a good podcast!
Image comparison using a GridSplitter: Martin Krüger posted a cool 'Clip Splitter' for comparing images, and what a great set of example images he's using... pretty darn cool lining them up with a grid-splitter.