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Following his previous post, Mike Taulty wanted to have a MainView on the application that knows whether the app is in the browser, out-of-browser and/or elevated.

Source: Mike Taulty's Blog

Ultimately, this app is going to call the PDC OData service at a domain that does not have a client access policy file allowing cross-domain calls and I’m only going to get that working from an out-of-browser elevated application so my functionality in the browser is going to be purely around offering the user the chance to install the app out of browser.

Mike Taulty decided to rebuild his PDC 2010 Silverlight Application with which you can download videos from the 2010 PDC.

Source: Mike Taulty's Blog

One of the things that I really wasn’t pleased about with that application is that it all downloads as one huge XAP file and yet I’m a huge fan of MEF and hadn’t used it in the interests of time. So, I’d really rather have a solution that involves MEF and break the application into a set of modules that are dynamically loaded at runtime rather than all bundled into a big XAP.

This, then, is the first post around starting to put this together and in this post I’ll build zero application functionality but, instead, purely focus on getting the infrastructure together that I’m going to need later on in the application.

Colin Eberhardt gives a quick view of his new application that is a Silverlight version of Ben Marsh’s UKSnow twitter / maps mashup.

Source: ScottLogic

A week ago a colleague of mine posted an interesting article on parallelism in .NET 4.0 which included a few different libraries for asynchronous / parallel processing. Being a bit of a Linq fan, the Reactive Extensions jumped out at me.

For a while now I’ve been wanting to make invoicing my clients a much less painful process. A major aspect of any project is sending an invoice to the client throughout the duration of the project. The last few years I’ve used a few different products and none of them really seemed to encompass either the simplicity I needed, or the user experience I wanted. I want to enjoy invoicing for my work! So, to that end …

Sigurd Snørteland presents his new Windows Phone 7 Twitter application called "Loud Tweets".

Source: Sigurd Snørteland's Blog

‘loud tweets’ is a wp7 twitter app. You type in a twitter search keyword and the app refreshes the search every 60 seconds. All recived tweets will automatically be translated to english and spoken out loud by the phone.

                                              

Sigurd Snørteland announces that the myChannel9 & Wallstreet WP7 applications are now available on Silverlight.net.

Source: Sigurd Snørteland

Microsoft has now added myChannel9 & wallstreet as ‘Community samples’-apps on their site www.silverlight.net.

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Presenting the DelhiTechnoGradz Mosaic.

The 350 MegaPixel Mosaic powered by Silverlight DeepZoom showcases all the Delhi MSP Events and moments. With over 35000 tiles and over 5000 unique photos its a one of a kind.

Justin Angel wants to share some general specifics around his latest project - a Windows Phone 7 app called “Neurons”.

Source: Justin Angel's Blog

"Neurons" streams TED Talks, The RSA (and RSA Animate), FORA.tv and Science Dump to your Windows Phone 7. You can view the latest talks from each of these knowledgeable sources or Search for more talks. Feel free to share talks you liked via Facebook, Twitter or email.

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