Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2011 -- #1108

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Published on Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:36:41 GMT Indexed on 2011/06/20 16:24 UTC
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In this Issue: René Schulte, Rajat Jaiswal(-2-), Peter Kuhn, Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Beth Massi, Michael Crump, Daniel Vaughan, Chris Rouw, WindowsPhoneGeek, and Jesse Liberty.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Cubelicious - Silverlight 5 + Balder + Physics + SLARToolkit Augmented Reality = Triple Win!" René Schulte
WP7:	"Binding the WP7 ProgressIndicator in XAML" Daniel Vaughan
LightSwitch:	"Adding Static Images and Text on a LightSwitch Screen" Beth Massi

Shoutouts:

Laurent Bugnion is Proposing a new RelayCommand snippet for MVVM Light V4... read about it and give him some feedback

From SilverlightCream.com:

Cubelicious - Silverlight 5 + Balder + Physics + SLARToolkit Augmented Reality = Triple Win!: René Schulte has a post up about using the SLARToolkit for Silverlight 5 Beta in conjuncion with Balder and Physics ... dang this is cool, check out the video!
PSD TO XAML in few easy steps using Expression Blend: I'm not a Photoshop person, but apparently Rajat Jaiswal is, and he's demonstrating using Expression Blend to get your PSD file into XAML
Its really great feature Silverlight realtime augment toolkit: This is a fun post from Rajat Jaiswal... fun to see someone other than René Schulteposting about René's SLARToolkit :)
Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 2): Peter Kuhn has part 2 of his series up on getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam at SilverlightShow
Metro In Motion Part #7 – Panorama Prettiness and Opacity: Colin Eberhardt has another Metro in Motion up... this one concentrates on the opacity effect when the user slides from item-to-item in Panorama contents
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 13 - What is Tombstoning?: Kunal Chowdhury has a couple of posts up... first up is this one on Tombstoning... and if you're just starting with WP7.1, it got easier
Windows Phone 7 Tip: Showing and Hiding onscreen keyboard in Emulator: Kunal Chowdhury's latest is a great hint if you haven't found it already... how to show/hide the onscreen keyboard in the emulator
Adding Static Images and Text on a LightSwitch Screen: Beth Massi's latest post is on showing how to display an image or static text such as a logo in a LightSwitch app
Displaying PDF Files in Windows Phone 7 Mango: Michael Crump responds to reader's questions about displaying a PDF file in WP7.1 with this post using ComponentOne's Studio for Windows Phone CTP
Binding the WP7 ProgressIndicator in XAML: Daniel Vaughan has a solution to the problem of having to bind the ProgressIndicator in WP7.1 in code-behind... he wrote a ProgressIndicatorProxy and shares it with us!<>/dd>
Storing Files in SQL Server using WCF RIA Services and Silverlight – Part 2: Chris Rouw has Part 2 of his Storing Files in SQL Servier using WCF RIA Services and Silverlight up... this one is on uploading and saving files to the database from Silvelright by the user dropping them onto your app.
Using SqlMetal to generate Windows Phone Mango Local Database classes: OK I'm not too proud to admit I'd never heard of SQLMetal... if you haven't, or even if you have, this post by WindowsPhoneGeek is a good discussion of using it to generate your WP7.1 database classes.
Obtaining Email, Address or Phone Number: Jesse Liberty's latest is another in his 'Mango From Scratch' series discussing the new tasks to obtain more info from the contact list.