In this Issue: MSDN, Bill Reiss, Charlie Kindel(-2-), SilverLaw, Scott Marlowe, Kenny Young, Andrea Boschin, Mike Taulty, Damon Payne, and Jeff Handley(-2-).
Shoutouts:
Scott Morrison has his material up for his talk at MIX 10: Silverlight 4 Business Applications
Matthias Shapiro posted his MIX10 “Information Visualization in Silverlight” Slides and Code for MIX10 Information Visualization Talk Demos
Dan Wahlin has his MIX10 material all posted as well: Syncing Audio, Video and Animations in Silverlight
Timmy Kokke has an interesting MEF post up: Building extensions for Expression Blend 4 using MEF
From SilverlightCream.com:
How to: Add an Application Bar to Your Application
In case you missed this MSDN post on adding an Application Bar to your WP7 app
Simulating accelerometer data in the Windows Phone 7 emulator
Got a Wii? How about a Wii remote? Bill Reiss shows how to use the Wii remote to simulate accelerometer data on the WP7 emulator ... really!
Windows Phone 7 Series Icon Pack
Charlie Kindel announced the release of a WP7 Icon pack ... great external MSDN link on using them as well.
Windows Phone Developer Documentation
Charlie Kindel also posted WP7 Documentation, and a quick overview of what you'll find ... samples, references, all good stuff to check out and download.
GlossyTextblock Custom Control - Silverlight 3
SilverLaw has his GlossyTextblock rebuilt as a Custom Control and in the Expresseion Gallery. Check the blog for a screenshot.
A Windows Phone 7 Silverlight TagList
Scott Marlowe has a great post up for WP7 accessing his blog tag list via WCF and displaying the data on the emulator... wow!
Dynamic Layout and Transitions in Expression Blend 4
Kenny Young has a great companion blog post to a demo app on Expression Gallery. There's also a link on the page to Kenny's MIX10 session
Using XmlDefinition and XmlPrefix to better organize namespaces
Andrea Boschin comes to our rescue about the maze of namespaces in XAML by using a solution from the RC: XmlDefinition and XmlPrefix
Silverlight 4 RC – Socket Security Changes
Mike Taulty is discussing changes in the RC with regard to sockets that have come about since he did his series of posts. Lots of good code.
Cascading ItemsSource Bindings in Silverlight
Damon Payne addresses an issue he came acros with multiple DataGrids on the same screen. He demonstrates the problem, and then demonstrates his solution.
ContosoSales Application for RIA Services RC
Jeff Handley posted about the refresh to the ContosoSales application shown in the PDC keynote, and details the changes. Lots of good code and links.
DomainDataSource Filters and Parameters
Jeff Handley has another post up about RIA Services and the fact that ControlParameter is gone... and he shows how to use ElementName binding instead.
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