Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2011 -- #1168
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Lazar Nikolov, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Peter Kuhn, Derik Whittaker, Chris Koenig, and Jeff Blankenburg(-2-).
Above the Fold:
Silverlight:
"Facebook Graph API and Silverlight Part 2 – Publishing data"
Lazar Nikolov
WP7:
"Suppressing Zoom and Scroll interactions in the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control"
Colin Eberhardt
Metro/WinRT/W8:
"Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#)"
Derik Whittaker
Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up
Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up
Pete Brown announced the completion of his book: It’s a wrap! I’ve completed writing Silverlight 5 in Action
From SilverlightCream.com:
Suppressing Zoom and Scroll interactions in the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control
Colin Eberhardt's latest post is all about a helper class he wrote to suppress scrolling and pinch zoom of the WP7 browser control, which you might want to do if the browser is placed inside another control.
Facebook Graph API and Silverlight Part 2 – Publishing data
In this part 2 of his Facebook and Silverlight series, Lazar Nikolov shows how to post data to your profile or your friends' profiles
Localizing a Windows Phone app Step by Step
WindowsPhoneGeek's latest post is on Localizing a WP7 app .. another great tutorial with plenty of discussion, pictures, and a project to load up and follow
Background Audio Part II: Copying Audio Files To Isolated Storage
Continuing his WP7 series, Jesse Liberty has Part 2 of a mini-series on Background Audio up... in this episode he's using local audio and to do so, it must be in ISO
Silverlight: Bugs in the multicast client
In a Q/A session, Peter Kuhn was presented a nasty bug in the multicast client that he has verified exists in not only Silverlight 4 but also Silverlight 5 Beta, including a link to his entry on Connect.
Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#)
Derik Whittaker offers up some good information about the Metro Application Bar and how to keep it where you want it
New! Windows Phone Starter Kit for Podcasts
Chris Koenig announced the release of a new starter kit for WP7... a starter kit for podcasts. Check out the links on Chris' site and the other two starter kits that are available
31 Days of Mango | Day #4: Compass
Jeff Blankenburg continues with Day 4 of his Mango series with this post on the Compass and a cool app to demonstrate it
31 Days of Mango | Day #5: Gyroscope
In Day 5, Jeff Blankenburg is talking about and discussing the gyroscope, of course if you have a phone as old as mine, you won't have a gyroscope and it's not on the emulator
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