Silverlight Cream for November 08, 2011 -- #1165
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Brian Noyes, Michael Crump, WindowsPhoneGeek, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, Kunal Chowdhury, and Beth Massi.
Above the Fold:
Silverlight:
"Working with Prism 4 Part 1: Getting Started"
Brian Noyes
WP7:
"Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit Tile Control"
WindowsPhoneGeek
LightSwitch:
"How to Connect to and Diagram your SQL Express Database in Visual Studio LightSwitch"
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:
Working with Prism 4 Part 1: Getting Started
Brian Noyes has a series starting at SilverlightShow about Prism 4 ... this is the first one, so a good time to jump in and pick up on an intro and basic info about Prism plus building your first Prism app.
10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 5 of 10)
Michael Crump has Part 5 of his 10-part Silverlight 5 investigation up at SilverlightShow talking about all the various text features added in Silverlight 5 Beta: Text Tracking and Leading, Linked and MultiColumn, OpenType, etc.
Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit Tile Control
WindowsPhoneGeek takes on the Tile control from the Coding4Fun toolkit... as usual, great tutorial... diagrams, code, explanation
Using AppHarbor, Bitbucket and Mercurial with ASP.NET and Silverlight – Part 2 CouchDB, Cloudant and Hammock
Erno de Weerd has Part 2 of his trilogy and he's trying to beat David Anson for the long title record :) ... in this episode, he's adding in cloud storage to the mix in a 35-step tutorial.
Background Audio
Jesse Liberty's talking about background Audio... and no not the Muzak in the elevator (do they still have that?) ... he's tlking about the WP7.1 BackgroundAudioPlayer
Using the ToggleSwitch in WinRT/Metro (for C#)
Derik Whittaker shows off the ToggleSwitch for WinRT/Metro... not a lot to be said about it, but he says it all :)
Part 19 - Windows Phone 7 - Access Phone Contacts
Sumit Dutta has Part 19! of his WP7 series up... talking today about getting a phone number from the directory using the PhoneNumberChooserTask
ContextMenu using MVVM
Asim Sajjad shows how to make the Context Menu ViewModel friendly in this short tutorial.
Code to make call in Windows Phone 7
Dhananjay Kumar's latest WP7 post is explaining how to make a call programmatically using the PhoneCallTask launcher.
Silverlight Page Navigation Framework - Basic Concept
Kunal Chowdhury has a 3-part tutorial series on Silverlight Navigation up. This is the first in the series, and he hits the basics... what constitutes a Page, and how to get started with the navigation framework.
How to Connect to and Diagram your SQL Express Database in Visual Studio LightSwitch
Beth Massi's latest LightSwitch post is on using the Data Designer to easily crete and model database tables... during development this is in SQL Express, but can be deployed to most SQL server db you like
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