Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2011 -- #1110
- by Dave Campbell
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Peter Kuhn(-2-, -3-), Mike Gold, WindowsPhoneGeek, Nigel Sampson, Paul Sheriff, Dhananjay Kumar, and Erno de Weerd.
Above the Fold:
Silverlight:
"Silverlight Debug Helper"
Peter Kuhn3
WP7:
"Metro In Motion #8 – AutoCompleteBox Reveal Animation"
Colin Eberhardt
Shoutouts:
Check out the Top 5 from my friends at SilverlightShow from last week: SilverlightShow for June 13 - 19, 2011
From SilverlightCream.com:
Metro In Motion #8 – AutoCompleteBox Reveal Animation
Colin Eberhardt found yet another 'Metro In Motion' to duplicate... this one is the auto-complete effect seen in the WP7 email client... check out the video on the post!
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 16 - How to Create a WP7 Alarm Application?
Kunal Chowdhury has a couple more of his Mango tutorials up... number 16 (!) is on creating an Alarm app using scheduled tasks.
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 17 - How to Create a WP7 Reminder Application?
Kunal Chowdhury's latest is number 17 in the Mango series and he's discussing the Reminder class which is part of the Scheduler namespace.
Silverlight Debug Helper
Peter Kuhn has deployed a new version of his "Silverlight Debug Helper"... this time he's added support for FireFox and Chrome.
Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 3)
Peter Kuhn also has Part 3 of his series posted at SilverlightShow on getting ready for the WP7 exam.
XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 13 - Mango (2)
Finally, Peter Kuhn's latest XNA for Silverlight developers tutorial is up at SilverlightShow and is the 2nd Mango post for game devs.
Detecting Altitude using the WP7 Phone
WindowsPhoneGeek apparently turned the reigns of his blog over to Mike Gold for this post about Altitude detection on the WP7.
Windows Phone Mango: Getting Started with MVVM in 10 Minutes
If you're out there and still haven't gotten your head around MVVM, or want to take another look at why you're beating yourself up doing it [ :) ]... WindowsPhoneGeek has a quick write-up on MVVM and WP7.1 apps
Creating app promotional videos
Nigel Sampson details how he uses Expression Encoder to produce the app videos he has on his blog for his WP7* apps.
Sort Data in Windows Phone using Collection View Source
Paul Sheriff's latest post is up, and is another WP7 post. This time on how to sort the data you consume by using a CollectionViewSource object in XAML and not write any code!
Viewing Flickr Images on Windows 7.1 Phone or Mango Phone
Dhananjay Kumar has a tutorial up for WP7.1 showing how to use the Flickr REST service to display images on your device.
Windows Phone 7: Drawing graphics for your application with Inkscape – Part II: Icons
Part 2 of Erno de Weerd's Trilogy on Drawing graphics for your WP7* apps in Inkscape is up... this tutorial is all about icons... good stuff!
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