Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2011 -- #1110

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Published on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:12:57 GMT Indexed on 2011/06/22 8:23 UTC
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In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Peter Kuhn(-2-, -3-), Mike Gold, WindowsPhoneGeek, Nigel Sampson, Paul Sheriff, Dhananjay Kumar, and Erno de Weerd.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight Debug Helper" Peter Kuhn3
WP7:	"Metro In Motion #8 – AutoCompleteBox Reveal Animation" Colin Eberhardt

Shoutouts:

Check out the Top 5 from my friends at SilverlightShow from last week: SilverlightShow for June 13 - 19, 2011

From SilverlightCream.com:

Metro In Motion #8 – AutoCompleteBox Reveal Animation: Colin Eberhardt found yet another 'Metro In Motion' to duplicate... this one is the auto-complete effect seen in the WP7 email client... check out the video on the post!
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 16 - How to Create a WP7 Alarm Application?: Kunal Chowdhury has a couple more of his Mango tutorials up... number 16 (!) is on creating an Alarm app using scheduled tasks.
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 17 - How to Create a WP7 Reminder Application?: Kunal Chowdhury's latest is number 17 in the Mango series and he's discussing the Reminder class which is part of the Scheduler namespace.
Silverlight Debug Helper: Peter Kuhn has deployed a new version of his "Silverlight Debug Helper"... this time he's added support for FireFox and Chrome.
Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 3): Peter Kuhn also has Part 3 of his series posted at SilverlightShow on getting ready for the WP7 exam.
XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 13 - Mango (2): Finally, Peter Kuhn's latest XNA for Silverlight developers tutorial is up at SilverlightShow and is the 2nd Mango post for game devs.
Detecting Altitude using the WP7 Phone: WindowsPhoneGeek apparently turned the reigns of his blog over to Mike Gold for this post about Altitude detection on the WP7.
Windows Phone Mango: Getting Started with MVVM in 10 Minutes: If you're out there and still haven't gotten your head around MVVM, or want to take another look at why you're beating yourself up doing it [ :) ]... WindowsPhoneGeek has a quick write-up on MVVM and WP7.1 apps
Creating app promotional videos: Nigel Sampson details how he uses Expression Encoder to produce the app videos he has on his blog for his WP7* apps.
Sort Data in Windows Phone using Collection View Source: Paul Sheriff's latest post is up, and is another WP7 post. This time on how to sort the data you consume by using a CollectionViewSource object in XAML and not write any code!
Viewing Flickr Images on Windows 7.1 Phone or Mango Phone: Dhananjay Kumar has a tutorial up for WP7.1 showing how to use the Flickr REST service to display images on your device.
Windows Phone 7: Drawing graphics for your application with Inkscape – Part II: Icons: Part 2 of Erno de Weerd's Trilogy on Drawing graphics for your WP7* apps in Inkscape is up... this tutorial is all about icons... good stuff!