Silverlight Cream for November 16, 2011 -- #1167
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Michael Crump, Andrea Boschin, Michael Sync, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Antoni Dol, Walter Ferrari, and Jeff Blankenburg(-2-).
Above the Fold:
Silverlight:
"10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 6 of 10)"
Michael Crump
WP7:
"31 Days of Mango | Day #2: Device Status"
Jeff Blankenburg
Metro/WinRT/W8:
"Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target"
Derik Whittaker
Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up
Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up
SilverlightShow has announced a webinar you probably don't want to miss: Webinar – Introduction to XAML Development on Windows 8
Check out the top 5 from last week at SilverlightShow: SilverlightShow for November 07 - 13, 2011
From SilverlightCream.com:
10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 6 of 10)
Michael Crump covers a lot of territory in this Part 6 of his Silverlight 5 Beta series at SilverlightShow: P/Invoke, Multiple Windows, and Full Trust
Windows Phone 7.5 - Manipulating camera stream
Andrea Boschin has Part 4 of his Mango series up at SilverlightShow. He's discussing accessing the raw stream from the camera and saving it to a file.
Blend 4 + VS 2011 (Preview) = Problem?
Michael Sync reports a problem with Blend 4 and the VS2011 preview... followed up by a set of scripts that were posted on Connect to make the problem go away (at least for Michael)
Windows Phone Toolkit MultiselectList in depth | Part1: key concepts and API
WindowsPhoneGeek begins a series on the MultiselectList in the Phone Toolkit... if you've seen his tutorials, you know they're great... this one is no exception.. lots of code, info and notes getting you on-board with the features
Getting Started with Windows Phone Alarms
WindowsPhoneGeek next takes a sidestep from his new series and has this post on Alarms in WP7 apps .. one of the type of scheduled actions in WP7.1 ... good write-up, pictures and code
Using AppHarbor, Bitbucket and Mercurial with ASP.NET and Silverlight – Part 3 Membership and Role Provider in SQL Server
Erno de Weerd's part 3 of his series is up... adding Role and Membership to his application... check it out in this 17-step tutorial
Yet Another Podcast #51–Shawn Wildermuth: //build, Xaml Programming & Beyond
Jesse Liberty has another of his Yet Another Podcasts up and he's talking with Jon Galloway and Shawn Wildermuth... hear what *that* trio has to say about post //BUILD, and all things XAML
Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target
Derik Whittaker continues to work with Metro... evidenced by this post on wiring your app up to be a Share Target .. allowing your app to consume data from other apps
Photoshop in METRO style 2: Filters
Antoni Dol follows up his Photoshop in Metro post with this one on filters... he's got some great screenshots... was hoping to see a link to the code... maybe I missed it!
Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: a Silverlight menu for Sharepoint - Part 1
Walter Ferrari has part 1 of a series up at SilverlightShow talking about Sharepoint and Silverlight, and using Silverlight Navigation in place of what Sharepoint offers up.
31 Days of Mango | Day #2: Device Status
Jeff Blankenburg is motoring along on his 31 Days of Mango. This is his Day 2 post and all about DeviceStatus, or just about everything you would like to know about your user's phone
31 Days of Mango | Day #3: Alarms and Reminders
Day 3 of Jeff Blankenburg's series is about Alarms and Reminders... a way to alert your user that something needs to be done... you can create, edit, and delete them as needed
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