Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2011 -- #1166

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Published on Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:14:22 GMT Indexed on 2011/11/14 9:53 UTC
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In this Issue: Pontus Wittenmark, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Colin Eberhardt, Charles Petzold, Dhananjay Kumar, Igor, Beth Massi, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Shawn Wildermuth, XAMLNinja, and Peter Kuhn(-2-).

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Silverlight Page Navigation Framework - Learn about UriMapper" Kunal Chowdhury
WP7:	"31 Days of Mango" Jeff Blankenburg
WinRT/Metro/W8:	"An Introduction to Semantic Zoom in Windows 8 Metro" Colin Eberhardt
LightSwitch:	"Common Validation Rules in LightSwitch Business Applications" Beth Massi

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up

From SilverlightCream.com:

10 tips about porting Silverlight apps to WinRT/Metro style apps (Part 1): Pontus Wittenmark spent some time porting his Silverlight game to WinRT and says it was easier than expected. He has posted 10 tips for porting... and promises more
31 Days of Mango: Looks like Jeff Blankenburg started another 31 days series... this one on Mango dev... and looks like I'm late to the party, but that's ok, gives me more stuff to blog about... this time you can get the posts by email, and he has a hashtag for discussion too
31 Days of Mango | Day #1: The New Windows Phone Emulator Tools: Day 1 of Jeff Blankenburg's journey is this post on what's new in the emulator tools.
An Introduction to Semantic Zoom in Windows 8 Metro: This is Colin Eberhardt's latest ... getting familiar with semantic zoom oin Metro by creating a WP7-stylke jumplist experience.... check out the video on his blogpost for a better idea of what he's up to
.NET Streams and Windows 8 IStreams: In his first real post on his new series writing an EPUB viewer for W8, Charles Petzold described using IInputStream to get the contents of a disk file... and source for the project in progress
Video on How to work with Page Navigation and Back Button in Windows Phone 7: Dhananjay Kumar has a video tutorial up on Page Navigation and Back Button usage in WP7
Screen capture to media library instead of isolated storage: Igor discusses a class that lets you save screen captures for use in your application and also saving them to the media library on the phone
Common Validation Rules in LightSwitch Business Applications: Beth Massi's latest is this LightSwitch post on Validation rules... showing how to define declarative rules and also write custom validation code.
Silverlight Page Navigation Framework - Learn about UriMapper: Kunal Chowdhury continues his Page Navigation discussion with this post on the UriMapper, and how to hide the actual URL of the page you're navigating to
How to use PlaySoundAction Behavior in WP7 Application?: Kunal Chowdhury also has this post up on using the PlaySoundAction Behavior in WP7 ... nice tutorial on using Blend to get the job done
What Win8 Should Learn from Windows Phone: After spending time with Windows 8, Shawn Wildermuth has this post up about features from WP7 that should be brought over to Windows 8, and finishes with features that WP8 (?) could learn from Win8 too
WP7Contrib – FindaPad and the fastest list in the west: XAMLNinja discusses the WP7 App FindaPad which spawned the creation of WP7Contrib and uses the app to describe some nuances that may not be readily obvious.
Windows Phone 7: The kind of bug you don't want to discover: Peter Kuhn discusses a problem he came across while programming WP7, interestingly enough, only in the emulator, and has to do with a Uint64 cast. He does offer a workaround.
Announcing: Your Last About Dialog (YLAD): Peter Kuhn also has this post up that's a take-off on a post by Jeff Wilcox about a generic About Dialog. Peter has some great additions.. and he's right... it may be your last About Dialog... get it via NuGet, too!