Silverlight Cream for June 28, 2011 -- #1112

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Published on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:15:33 GMT Indexed on 2011/06/29 8:23 UTC
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In this Issue: WindowsPhoneGeek, John Papa, Mike Taulty, Erno de Weerd, Stephen Price, Chris Rouw, Peter Kuhn, Damian Schenkelman, Michael Washington, and Manas Patnaik.

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Binding to View Model properties in Data Templates. The RootBinding Markup Extension" Damian Schenkelman
WP7:	"Storing Files in SQL Server using WCF RIA Services and Silverlight – Part 3" Chris Rouw
LightSwitch:	"Saving Files To File System With LightSwitch (Uploading Files)" Michael Washington

Shoutouts:

Steve Wortham announced a change to his XilverlightXAP.com site... they're now accepting XAML illustrations: Introducing XAML Illustrations, Increased Payouts to Contributors, and More

Amid all the discussions that I've tried to avoid, Michael Washinton is Betting The House On LightSwitch

From SilverlightCream.com:

Dynamically updating a data bound LongListSelector in Windows Phone: WindowsPhoneGeek's latest is on using the LongListSelector from the Toolkit and dynamically updating it with data... detailed guidelines and plenty of pictures and code as always.
Silverlight TV 77: Exploring 3D with Aaron Oneal: John Papa has Silverlight TV number 77 up and is chatting with Aaron Oneal, program manager of the Silverlight 3D efforts... too cool.
Silverlight WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps (Part 2): Mike Taulty wrote this post in Silverlight 5 Beta, but says it should be fine in 4... a continuation of his HTML Content display using the WebBrowser control while offline
Windows Phone 7: Databinding and the Pivot Control: Erno de Weerd discusses the Pivot control in WP7 based on his attempts to use it in an app.
Required Attribute on an Entity: Stephen Price has a new post at XAML Source... first is this one on setting the required attribute and the troubles you can get into if it's not set correctly
Storing Files in SQL Server using WCF RIA Services and Silverlight – Part 3: Chris Rouw has Part 3 of his series on Storing files in SQL Server using FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008 and Silverlight... this time he's viewing files stored in the FILESTREAM from the LOB app.
Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 4): Peter Kuhn has Part 4 of his series on getting ready for the WP7 exam up at SilverlightShow... the date is coming up soon... are you ready?
Binding to View Model properties in Data Templates. The RootBinding Markup Extension: Damian Schenkelman has a Silverlight 5 Beta post up... digging into the XAML Markup Extensions and popping out a RootBindingExtensionthat helps bind to a property in a view model from a DataTemplate.
Saving Files To File System With LightSwitch (Uploading Files): Michael Washington has a cool tutorial up on his new LightSwitch Help Website... File Upload to a server file system using LightSwitch, plus a project to download... good stuff!
Microsoft Media Platform (MMPPF): Player Framework for Silverlight: Manas Patnaik's latest post is about the Media Player Project... some of the history of media with Silvelight and how to go about using the Media Player Project bits