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At PDC10 as part of the keynote, Scott Guthrie showed off the soon-to-be-released Silverlight Performance Analysis tool that would allow developers to profile their Windows Phone 7 applications and identify bottlenecks in frame rate and CPU and relate that back to specific storyboards and even Visual Tree elements.
This post provides screen shots of the tool and suggests a possible release date:
http://www.shazaml.com/archives/silverlight-performance-analysis-tool-coming-soon
Here is a link to a blog post about how to do the Model-View-ViewModel pattern using Caliburn.Micro:
MVVM with Caliburn.Micro | SHAZAML!
A team here in Phoenix came to me with an interesting problem back on Friday. The Silverlight user interface that they were developing had a text box for a search query and a button that the user would click to perform the search. Understandably, the customer wanted the search button to be a default button such that pressing Enter in the text box would cause the search button to be clicked. Unfortunately, out of the box there’s no way to associate a button to a text box to implement that kind of behavior. More...