Thursday, July 29, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 29, 2010 -- #913 In this Issue: Michael Washington , Ezequiel Jadib , Kunal Chowdhury , Ernesto Herrera , Levente Mihály , Rob Davis , Sergey Barskiy , Jeremy Likness , Victor Gaudioso , and Jonathan van de Veen . Shoutout: Right on cue, Erik Mork and company posted This Week In Silverlight 7.23.2010 – Early Windows Phone 7 Reviews From SilverlightCream.com : Using The Silverlight DataGrid with View Model / MVVM Michael Washington has posted a tutorial on a pretty-much all-singing, all-dancing DataGrid (i.e. inline edits, button events, paging, ...

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2010 -- #912 In this Issue: Anton Polimenov , Gill Cleeren , Jeff Fansler , Hannah Watkins , paulio , Michael S. Scherotter , Mohamed Mosallem , and Xianzhong Zhu . From SilverlightCream.com : WP7: UI Concepts of Windows Phone 7 With hardware descriptions behind him, Anton Polimenov continues his 10-part series at SilverlightShow on WP7 with this one on UI Concepts The duplex story: looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 - Part 3: Using Net.Tcp Gill Cleeren has part 3 of his tutorial series on Polling Duplex with WCF and is discussing Net Tcp this time around ...

Sunday, July 25, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2010 - 2 -- #911 In this Issue: Paul Sheriff , jbaird , Michael Washington , Shawn Wildermuth , Ben Gracewood , Mohamed Mosallem , Jesse Liberty , Nigel Sampson , Kunal Chowdhury , Vikram Pendse , and Frank LaVigne . Shoutout: I don't know who these Commentsys devs are but they've got a boatload of Silverlight and WP7 tutorials From SilverlightCream.com : Use CollectionViewSource in Silverlight to Sort Data Paul Sheriff has two posts on using the CollectionViewSource to sort your data. This first one is in XAML and the second is i ...

Sunday, July 25, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2010 -- #910 In this Issue: Tony Champion , David Poll , Ben Gracewood , Ryan Alford , Willem Meints , Nokola ( -2- ), and Deborah Kurata . Shoutouts: This is pretty cool-- 10 years of MSDN Magazine in a Silverlight Pivot Found this via Catherine Russell -- MSDN Virtual Labs Just for those that haven't seen it already, there's a page up on MSDN containing Code Samples for Windows Phone From SilverlightCream.com : Messaging in Silverlight with MVVM Light Tony Champion sings the praises of Laurent Bugnion's MVVM Light, and particularly the messaging... check ...

Saturday, July 24, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2010 -- #909 In this Issue: Tony Champion , Vikas , Larry Larsen , Dimitris - Ilias Gkanatsios , Gergely Orosz , András Velvárt , Rishi , John Papa , David Rousset , David Anson , and Ozymandias . Shoutout: The Swiss MSDN Team Blog announced “Building a Newsreader Application using Silverlight for Windows Phone 7” Hands-On Lab – Now updated for July BETA Developer Tools Laurent Bugnion posted an MVVM Light Hotfix for Windows Phone 7 developer tools beta Fons Sonnemans posted a video of his WP7 game Sudoku for WP7 on YouTube ... I'm going to want to buy that one :) David Anson blogged that he Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example for the Windows Phone Developer ...

Thursday, July 22, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2010 -- #908 In this Issue: Ian Walker , Delordson Kallon , Anton Polimenov , Gill Cleeren , Tau Sick , Colin Eberhardt , Kunal Chowdhury , Jag Reehal , Rob Eisenberg , Shawn Wildermuth , Alex Yakhnin , Slobodan Pavkov , and Deborah Kurata . Shoutouts: Jeremy Alles has an MVVM comparison chart up that's very complete: MVVM Frameworks Explorer updated be sure to let him know if something is missing No discussion or code, but this demo code shares between Silverlight and WP7: Shove HalfPenny (Shove Ha'penny) New and untested: This looks interesting, but I haven't tried it out: Animation Mak ...

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2010 -- #907 In this Issue: jbaird , Sl.ayer ( -2- ), Yochay Kiriaty , and René Schulte . Shoutouts: Silverzine announced a contest to get an MSDN subscription: Competition Time!!!! Michael Washington and a crew of other folks have another giveaway going: Get a Free MSDN Ultimate subscription SilverlightCream has a wp7dev page up that just lists the wp7dev posts tagged: wp7dev Tagged Articles ... this is the same as searching for wp7dev, but you can just save the link... you probably won't need this in a couple weeks, but here it is! Erik Mork and Crew with some old guy as a guest have the latest up: This Week In Silverlight – Windows Phone tools in Beta -- thanks guys, that was fun! Siaqodb announced Siaqodb 2.0 released Dimaz Pramudya< ...

Sunday, July 18, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 18, 2010 -- #906 In this Issue: Kirupa Chinnathambi , Sergey Barskiy , Jesse Liberty ( -2- ), Shawn Wildermuth , Djonatas Tenfen , Yochay Kiriaty ( -2- ), Jason Zander . Shoutouts: Jeremy Likness follows up his Silverlight Profiling post with this one: Silverlight Profiling Part 2: The Easy Way Jeremy Likness also announced a release: Sterling OODB v0.1 Alpha Released! The Silverlight Team Blog announced Ooyala and Silverlight Bring the Beach Volleyball Open to You, Live! From SilverlightCream.com : Optimizing the On-Screen Keyboard Kirupa Chinnathamb ...

Friday, July 16, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2010 -- #905 In this Issue: Andrea Boschin , Kunal Chowdhury , Mark Arteaga ( -2- ), Shawn Hargreaves ( -2- ), Steve Strong , JOSUEYERAY , and Kyle McClellan . Shoutouts: Mason Brown has a post up that's a great read: Thoughts on User Exerience Yochay Kiriaty announced Windows Phone Developer Training Kit – Beta Refresh From SilverlightCream.com : Understanding control customization with templates: part #2 Andrea Boschin has the 2nd of his tutorial series on writing a templated control up on SilverlightShow How to Create a Silverlight ...

Thursday, July 15, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2010 -- #904 In this Issue: Charles Petzold , Nick Gravelyn , Andrea Boschin , John Papa , Kirupa Chinnathambi , Timmy Kokke , and Jeremy Likness . Shoutouts: Erik Mork and Co. have had this week's post up for a bit: This Week In Silverlight – Phones are here! Einar Ingebrigtsen announced the result of some of his vacation tim: Balder on Windows Phone 7 Very useful app if you're doing anything Pivot, Andrew Cox has A tool to help diagnose problems setting up your PivotViewer app PhaniRajuYN blogged that the Windows Phone OData sample application updated for July 2010 Beta release As promised the other day by Walt Ritscher, Shazzam Version 1.3 Shipped

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2010 -- #903 In this Issue: Jim Jackson ( -2- ), Alex Golesh , Dustin Horne , Sl.ayer , xprblog , Mike James , and David Anson . Shoutouts: John Papa is on Deep Fried Bytes: Silverlight 4 Tools and RIA Services as Heard on Deep Fried Bytes Jaime Rodriguez has some help up for those that are having problems moving from the CTP to Beta bits: Tips for uninstalling the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTPs and moving to beta Koen Zwikstra reports an update: Document Toolkit 2 Release Candidate ... check out the feature list and demo... get started using it. From SilverlightCream.com : ...

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 13, 2010 -- #902 In this Issue: Michael Washington , Andrea Boschin , Alex Golesh ( -2- , -3- ), Jaime Rodriguez , Brandon Watson , Jesse Liberty ( -2- ), and Scott Guthrie . Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher announced a new Shazzam is shipping today, but haven't seen a notice yet. As a teas, here's a post from Walt: Oh, shiny! Animated Mandelbrot shader effect If you plan on any wp7dev work, check out this training: Windows Phone 7 Jump Start: Session One - Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight ... this is a link to 1 of 4 that are 3 hours each on the 20th and 22nd of July... see you there! Jesse Liberty announced a new video in his "Getting Started with Silverlight" series: New Video: Introduction to Xaml Alex ...

Sunday, July 11, 2010 Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2010 -- #901 In this Issue: Michael Washington , Sl.ayer , András Velvárt , Jag Reehal ( -2- ), Einar Ingebrigtsen , Robby Ingebretsen , Shawn Wildermuth , Pete Brown , Tim Heuer ( -2- ), Rob Eisenberg ( -2- ), Roger Peters , snoutholder , Wolf Schmidt , Kyle McClellan Shoutouts: Davide Zordan lists the Slides and Code from my Silverlight 4 – MEF webcast I have an Open Letter to (and deal for) Silverlight Bloggers discussing possible broken links at SilverlightCream.com   From SilverlightCream.com : Basic Silverlight View Model Validation Michael Washington is discussing Validation in ViewModels this time, and is demonstrating validating that the data entered matches the underlying ty ...

Sunday, July 11, 2010 Resolved the Dell ‘Wandering Mouse’ I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 running Vista that I think from the beginning had the Wandering Mouse problem that various people on the interweb have complained about. A few notes before I say what my solution was: I do NOT have that stupid little goober between the G and H key I do NOT rest my hand/finger/or part thereof on the touchpad The touchpad is a small contained area, no large touch areas In the original setup, I had no control over the touchpad either, which sort of surprised me. My solution? I logged into Dell, and downloaded a new driver for my touchpad from Synaptics. Once installed, I now have a tray icon (that I can get rid of) that allows me to configure the sensitivity of the pad. I’ve put up 3 blog posts, plus this one without the mouse wandering around at all, and what a relief that’s been!

Sunday, July 11, 2010 Open Letter to (and deal for) Silverlight Bloggers While doing that 900th Silverlight Cream post last night, I found some dead links in the database. With close to 6,000 links, there is absolutely no way I can test them all and make sure they are (still) correct. Two of the cases I know are because of blog reorganizations where the bloggers did not preserve the previous links. I know it’s not easy to do that. Early on I made some changes at WynApse.com, but I kept both sets alive in my URL-Rewriting file. Since I was already rewriting my URLs, it wasn’t that big a deal. I’m not going to tell you why (right now), but in a few weeks you are going to *want* those links to work! So my suggestion is to go to SilverlightCream.com, take the Search link, enter your name in the author block, press enter, and make sure all your links are good. Now for the deal part of the message – if you’ve reorganized, ch ...