In this Issue: Vikas, Tony Champion, Peter Kuhn, Ollie Riches, Rich Griffin, Rob Eisenberg, Andrea Boschin, Rudi Grobler(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Dan Wahlin, Roberto Sonnino, Deborah Kurata.
Above the Fold:
Silverlight:
"Silverlight double click event"
Vikas
WP7:
"Logging in Silverlight and WP7 with MVVM Light"
Tony Champion
XNA:
"XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 3 - Animation (transforms)"
Peter Kuhn
Shoutouts:
Vikas deserves congratulations for passing the beta Silverlight 4 exam, but in the process he has a great list of resources to help you do the same: Exam 70-506 ( TS: Silverlight 4, Development )
From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight double click event
Vikas demonstrates 3 ways to come up with a double-click in Silverlight: Timer, Rx Framework, and Behavior with code for each.
Logging in Silverlight and WP7 with MVVM Light
Tony Champion is discussing logging... and since he finds himself doing it in every project, he's setting up an extensible solution he can reuse and is doing so with MVVMLight
XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 3 - Animation (transforms)
Peter Kuhn has part 3 of his XNA for WP7 series up at SilverlightShow. In this 3rd tutorial, Peter is discussing animation with Transformations.... remember... this is XNA!
WP7Contrib: Location Push Model
Ollie Riches posts from the WP7C and discusses how they provide an interface for location service by abstracting away the GeoCoordinateWatcher class and provide a clean push model using the IObservable as the return types for all variants.
WP7 Contrib – When messaging becomes messy and services shine
Rich Griffin pulls another post up from WP7C where he discusses swapping out using Service Styles rather than Messenger Styles... in his words "when we start getting friction trying to bend the framework api to do something that it was not really meant for its time to use something [that] solves the problem better"
Herding Code 104: Rob Eisenberg on Caliburn Micro
Rob Eisenberg is interviewed on the latest Herding Code, talking about his baby, Caliburn Micro, and tons of other stuff as well... just check out the list of links generated for this show.
Windows Phone 7 - Part #4: The application lifecycle
Andrea Boschin has part 4 of his WP7 tutorial series up at SilverlightShow... In this tutorial he does a complete run-down the the WP7 Application Life-Cycle
Simple Error Reporting on WP7
Rudi Grobler has a code snippet up that, with the end-user's permission of course, emails problem reports back to you... very cool idea.
Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX
Rudi Grobler demonstrates using the Coding4Fun toolkit to display an exception prompt to the user... and then possibly email the report to you..see Rudi's other post on that.
Creating An Application Bar–Don’t Panic
In his latest (number 31) WP7 From Scratch episode, Jesse Liberty takes on the ApplicationBar, and uses Blend to get the job done easier.
Syncing Data with a Server using Silverlight and HTTP Polling Duplex
Dan Wahlin revisits some older posts of his about Push technologies in Silverlight, and provides some great insight (and code) into Http Polling Duplex
Quick WPF/Silverlight tips to make great videos of your apps
Roberto Sonnino has some great tips on making awesome videos of your WPF or Silverlight app.
Simple Silverlight MVVM Base Class
Deborah Kurata has her take at a good MVVM base class as the subject of her latest post... good points and good code.
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