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Fantasia Painter 1.9, released with 20 new effects, distortion tools and "alive" brushes, is now available for Windows Phone 7.

Source: Nokola's Blog

This post contains:

1. New Fantasia Painter available, with 20 effects, an "alive" Fairy Lights brush, Text, symbols and photo functionality
2. Source code for Fantasia’s high-usability controls tuned for WP7: color pickers, improved slider and easing progress bar.
3. My new license (NNCL), which promotes fair commercial and personal use while protecting IP and ensures giving back to the community

Review the sample v1.9 videos here:
"Dark Acolyte" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxCw_gzFeWg : using the power of Mold to create a gloomy and disturbing mood in a picture
"Eye Color, Shape, and Makeup in 60 seconds": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmjmchzGUCk
"Effects, Drawing and Photo Editing Demo": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZnNSukBRig

Read original post by Sumit Dutta at .NET Speaks

In this simple and small article I will talk about BingMapsTask in Windows Phone which is present in Sytem.Device.Location. Let's write code

Step 1: Create a Silverlight for Windows Phone project. [...]

Jesse Liberty has published two posts on Launchers and Choosers in his Windows Phone From Scratch series:

• Tasks: Launchers and Choosers–Windows Phone From Scratch #22
• Launchers & Choosers–Part 2 - Windows Phone From Scratch #23

  To provide your Windows Phone application access to the operating system (and with it, to the native applications such as SMS, the Contact List, the Camera, and, oh yes, making a call) Windows Phone 7 has a set of predefined Tasks.
  
  Tasks can be divided into two types: Launchers, which launch an application but do not return a value (e.g., sending a SMS message) and Choosers, which launch an application and do return a value (e.g., fetching a phone number).
  
  

András Velvárt has a great post on handling Windows Phone 7 orientation changes with the help of Visual States.

Source: Dotneteers

It is pretty well known that an app can be notified of the phone’s orientation changes via the PhoneApplicationFrame.OrientationChanged event. However, if you are as serious about sharing the work between the designer and the developer as I am, you will not be happy with this – the changing of the layout should be the responsibility of the designer, not the developer.

Of course, the best way to achieve the different layouts is via Visual States.

Read the original post by Kunal Chowdhury at Kunal's Blog

Last two days, we learnt about Alarm and Reminder class present for Windows Phone 7 application development. We came to know about the class structure and demoed the implementation with small application created in step-by-step process. We also learnt about the use of Task while discussing the same.

 

In this tutorial chapter we will learn more about the tasks present for Mango devices. After reading this part you will be able to understand the different tasks and their uses. Read more to learn about them with visual code snippet and huge screenshots.

 

One, is check the DDI version and the driver model, for doing this you should go to Windows button  and on the search/execute area type dxdiag & pulse return. There should appear the DirectX diagnostic tool, once there click one of the Display tabs and on the controllers, validate the DDI version. It should be 10 or better.

I’ve been taking a look at the Reactive Extensions for .NET. It’s early days for me at this point but I’m finding what I’m seeing to be really interesting.

This is code that’s available from the DevLabs and there are versions for .NET 3.5 Sp1, .NET 4.0, Silverlight 3, Silverlight 4 and also for JavaScript.

Leon Braginski demonstrates the concept of integrating IE9 Pinning APIs with Silverlight.

Source: Windows Team Blog

After reading my previous blog covering how to integrating IE9 pinning APIs with Adobe Flash, some of you may have wondered if the same fit is possible in Microsoft Silverlight. It certainly is!

Hosting Silverlight in a SharePoint Webpart by Kirk Allen is an excellent step-by-step guidance for combining Silverlight and SharePoint.

Check out the Telerik's Silverlight TreeView Load on Demand example that demonstrates "best practice" for using RadTreeView with load on demand and ADO.NET Data Service. The source code is also available here.

Mike Snow with new helpful tip - How to Dynamically Load a Silverlight Control within another Silverlight Control.

Silverlight 2 Gotcha - Tab Navigation in a Popup - Jeff Handley noticed that Tab key doesn't work for moving from one control to another. He also found a solution for this issue!

Laurence Moroney explains how to deal with the Silverlight plug-in versions installed on client's machines in the first few days after RTW to ensure a smooth migration from Beta 2 to the final.

Flash vs Silverlight: Recursion Tree - another cool example made by Terence on Flash and Silverlight.