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While I am actively working on adding new functionality to the LightTouch library (such as adding the Pinch Gesture to bring parity with the GestureListener for Windows Phone from the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit) for an upcoming release, a couple of issues came to light that made adding a new release appropriate.  As the…

I have uploaded the content from my Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight talk at the New Hampshire .Net Seacoast User Group meeting last night in Portsmouth. The content can be found here, and includes: Presentation slides, which include the reference links I mentioned during the talk. The sample code, broken into 2…

Silverlight 5 boasts a wealth of sexy new features, including a full-blown, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics API, support for custom markup extensions, multiple-window support in trusted out-of-browser apps, and the ability to run trusted applications in the browser (with sufficient permissions, of course). Post-beta, even more features will be added, such as support for invoking native…

Another of the minor but potentially useful new features coming in Silverlight 5 – and already present in the Silverlight 5 beta – is style data binding. Simple put, style data binding allows you to use data-binding expressions to assign values to style setters. It may not sound that exciting, but among other things, it…

Silverlight 5 boasts a lot of big new features, but sometimes it’s the little things that count. A case in point is the new RichTextBoxOverflow control, which simplifies the process of implementing newspaper-style layouts in Silverlight applications. It may not be as sexy as the new 3D graphics API, but RichTextBoxOverflow will be your best…