Silverlight Cream for June 19, 2011 -- #1109

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Published on Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:27:15 GMT Indexed on 2011/06/20 16:24 UTC
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In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Oren Gal, Rudi Grobler, Stephen Price, Erno de Weerd, Joost van Schaik, WindowsPhoneGeek, Andrea Boschin, and Vikram Pendse.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Multiple Page Printing in Silverlight4 - Part 3 - Printing Driving Directions" Oren Gal
WP7:	"Prototyping Windows Phone 7 Applications using SketchFlow" Vikram Pendse

Shoutouts:

Not Silverlight, but darned cool... Michael Crump has just what you need to get going with Kinect: The busy developers guide to the Kinect SDK Beta

Rudi Grobler replies to a few questions about how he gets great WP7 screenshots: Screenshot Tools for WP7

From SilverlightCream.com:

Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 14 - Detecting Network Information of the Device: Squeaking in just under the posting wire with 2 more WP7.1 posts is Kunal Chowdhury ... first up is this one on grabbing the mobile operator and othe rnetwork info in WP7.1
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 15 - Detecting Device Information: Kunal Chowdhury's latest is on using the DeviceStatus class in WP7.1 to detect device information such as is there is a physical keyboard installed, Memory Usage, Total Memory, etc.
Multiple Page Printing in Silverlight4 - Part 3 - Printing Driving Directions: Oren Gal has the final episode in his Multiple Page Printing Tutorial Trilogy up... and this is *way* cool... Printing the driving directions.
AgFx hidden gem - PhoneApplicationFrameEx: Rudi Grobler continues his previous post about AgFX with this one talking about the PhoneApplicationFrameEx class inside AgFx.Controls.Phone.dll.. a RootFrame replacement.
Binding to ActualHeight or ActualWidth: Stephen Price's latest XAML snippet is about Binding to ActualHeight or ActualWidth... you've probably tried to without luck... check out the workaround.
Windows Phone 7: Drawing graphics for your application with Inkscape – Part I: Tiles: Erno de Weerd decided to try the 'free' route to Drawing graphics for his WP7 app, and has part 1 of a tutorial series on doing that with Inkscape.
Mogade powered Live Tile high score service for Windows Phone 7: Joost van Schaik expounds on his "Catch 'em Birds" WP7 game in the Marketplace... specifically the online leaderboard using the services of Mogade.
Building a Reusable ICommand implementation for Windows Phone Mango MVVM apps: WindowsPhoneGeek's latest post is discussing the ICommand interface available in WP7.1, and he demontstrates how to implement a reusable ICommand Implementation and how to use it.
A TCP Server with Reactive Extensions: Andrea Boschin is back posting about Rx, and promises this post *will be* Silverlight related eventually :) First up though is a socket server using Rx.
Prototyping Windows Phone 7 Applications using SketchFlow: Vikram Pendse has a tutorial up for prototyping your WP7* apps in Sketchflow including a 5 minute video