Silverlight Cream for November 27, 2011 -- #1176

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Published on Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:18:41 GMT Indexed on 2011/11/28 1:52 UTC
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In this Issue: Matt Eland, Parag Joshi, Jerrel Blankenship, and Joost van Schaik.

Above the Fold:

WP7:	"Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors" Joost van Schaik

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

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

From SilverlightCream.com:

31 Days of Mango | Day #22: App Connect: Matt Eland takes the reigns of Jeff's blog for Day 22 and is talking about App Connect... App Connect allows apps to be listed on Quick Cards relative to an app's subject matter, and Quick Cards are items that appear in searches to let users find out more info... check out the blog post if you're not familiar with this
31 Days of Mango | Day #21: Sockets: Jeff's Day 21 is written by Parag Joshi, and is on sockets... and is building a WP7 app for posting restaurant orders to a Silverlight OOB app running on a host machine... good sized tutorial and discussion, plus a project to download and play with
31 Days of Mango | Day #20: Creating Ringtones: Jerrel Blankenship has Day 20 for Jeff Blankenburg's 31 Days of Mango and is discussing Ringtones... how to create and save a custom ringtone for your user
Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors: Joost van Schaik revisits his Safe Event Detachment pattern for WP7 and built a base class to take care of the initialization involved to be kind to us, the developers... code included