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Recording of Webinar 'Contracts and Charms in Windows 8' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:46:09 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Contracts and Charms in Windows 8' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on April 24th, 2012.

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Webinar summary: In Windows 8 Metro, applications don’t communicate directly with each other. The OS has built-in contracts available out-of-the-box which make it possible that applications interact with each other without knowing each other. This way, one application can expose its own data for others to read. Another contract makes it possible to expose a common search functionality from within an application.

This new way of using these contracts is something that Metro application developers need to learn in order to build a killer application on Windows 8. In this webinar, Gill Cleeren will explain you the available contracts and how to use them to their limits in your application.

As usual, we had a free ebook giveaway for the attendees and tweeters of this webinar:

three attendees who submitted valuable feedback in our post-webinar survey won Gill Cleeren's ebook 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506' from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf
two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won a free copy of Gill's just-published ebook 'Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook' from Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Video for the article "Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: event receivers in Silverlight"

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:35:28 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: event receivers in Silverlight" by Walter Ferrari and shows the "Coffee break" application in action.

This application demonstrates a way to make the event receivers of Sharepoint available for a Silverlight application embedded in a Sharepoint web part.

Recording of Webinar 'Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 2' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:11:22 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Metro & WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 2' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on February 9th, 2012.

With this webinar we continue the extensive coverage of the Metro & WinRT topic. Part 1 of this session was delivered on Feb 2nd, watch recording!

Webinar slides (ppt / pptx) | Demos

Webinar summary: Are you currently building XAML-based applications using Silverlight or WPF? And are you afraid that all you’ve learned in the past is now suddenly obsolete?

In this webinar we saw how you can transfer your knowledge to the new Metro-way of building applications. We've done this by looking at a working application that contains most of the features you’ve come to love in Silverlight.

In this webinar you learn that things like data binding, styling, controls and much more can be leveraged to build applications in Windows 8. After watching this webinar recording, you will see that all of a sudden, you are already an experienced Metro app developer!

Level 250-300

Agenda for Part 2:

1. Styling and templating
2. Data in your Windows 8 apps

Getting data
Data binding

3. The Application Lifecycle (Copyright 2010 Windows Phone 7)
4. Tiles and more (Copyright 2010 Windows Phone 7)
5. IO’ing in Metro apps

Some small prizes were given in this webinar:

Three free copies of Gill Cleeren's ebook 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506'
and 2 free ebooks 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' by Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks!

Recording of Webinar 'Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 1' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:19:12 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Metro & WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 1' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on February 2nd, 2012.

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Webinar summary: Are you currently building XAML-based applications using Silverlight or WPF? And are you afraid that all you’ve learned in the past is now suddenly obsolete? Then you should really attend this webinar and be amazed!

We’ll see how you can transfer your knowledge to the new Metro-way of building applications. We’ll do this by looking at a working application that contains most of the features you’ve come to love in Silverlight.

You’ll learn that things like data binding, styling, controls and much more can be leveraged to build applications in Windows 8. After this webinar, you will see that all of a sudden, you are already an experienced Metro app developer! A big smile is guaranteed after this talk!

Level 250-300

Agenda for part 1:

1. General XAML stuff for Windows 8
2. Old and new controls
3. Finding your way with navigation

Part 2 of the "Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer" is scheduled for February 9th, 2012, 10 am PDT (see your local time). Sign up now | View agenda

Some small prizes were given in this webinar:

Three free copies of Gill Cleeren's ebook 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506'
and 3 free ebooks 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' by Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks!

Recording of Webinar 'Introduction to XAML Development on Windows 8' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:12:25 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Introduction to XAML Development on Windows 8' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on November 29th, 2011.

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Webinar summary: At BUILD 2011, Microsoft announced Windows 8. This upcoming version of Windows is probably the biggest change the OS ever went through. Windows 8 focuses on web, apps, touch and the tablet form factor. For developers, things will change as well. They need to be ready to build applications, called Metro applications, tailored for Windows 8 or adapt their existing applications for the new OS. Together with Windows 8, Microsoft announced Windows Runtime (WinRT), a new way of working with Windows.

As you can see, that's a lot of new stuff to get your head around! To help you, Gill Cleeren, Microsoft Regional Director and Silverlight MVP will explain you the new strategy that Microsoft is taking. In this webinar, we'll see what WinRT really is, how we can use it to build Metro applications with and how we can leverage C# and Silverlight knowledge to build Metro applications. We'll take a look at a fully working application as well to give you a clear picture of all the knowledge you'll gather during this hour. Watch this recording so the developer story for Windows 8 will have less secrets for you!

Some small prizes were given in this webinar:

Three free copies of Gill Cleeren's ebook 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506'
and 3 free ebooks 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' by Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks!

Recording of Webinar 'WCF RIA POCO Domain Services' by Brian Noyes

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:16:31 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'WCF RIA POCO Domain Services' delivered by Silverlight MVP Brian Noyes on September 28th, 2011.

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WCF RIA Services makes it simple to query and update data from your Silverlight application, as well as invoke other functionality on the server side. But most examples show using it with the built-in support for directly querying Entity Framework domain models where the entity classes are code generated for you.

In this webinar, Brian explains how you can mix WCF RIA Services with the new Code First features of Entity Framework 4, or just get your data from somewhere else such as flat files, but still benefit from the power of RIA Services for the client side.

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As usual, we had a number of awards for our attendees! Check out who grabbed the 3 free SilverlightShow Ebooks 'WCF RIA Services' (see all SilverlightShow ebooks), and SilverlightShow T-shirts!

Also watch recordings of the previous webinars from Brian's WCF RIA Services series:

Recording of Webinar 'Deep-DIVE in Silverlight FIVE' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:35:09 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Deep-DIVE in Silverlight FIVE' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on August 24, 2011.

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With Silverlight 4 out for over a year now, some amazing applications have been built with it. It’s time to take a look at the next version, which is due late 2011. In this session, Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren takes you on a tour of the advanced new features available in the platform. See what you’ll be using in 2012 for all your Silverlight needs!

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We had a number of awards announced for the attendees in this live webinar session! Check out who grabbed the free SilverlightShow Ebooks 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506' (see all SilverlightShow ebooks), and SilverlightShow T-shirts!

Gill also delivered the following SilverlightShow webinars:
Blend for Silverlight Developers
10 things I'm sure you didn't know about Silverlight 4
Let's MEF: overview of the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4
Silverlight's Power Features: Data Binding in Action
Switch or no switch: Can I build my business apps in LightSwitch?
Switching on the Cloud for Silverlight
Building a Silverlight 4 Application End-to-end

Recording of Telerik's webinar 'Crash Course in Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7'

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Watch a recording of Telerik's webinar 'Crash Course in Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7' delivered by Evan Hutnick on May 18th, 2011.

In this webinar, Telerik Developer Evangelist Evan Hutnick brought you on a quick tour through the Windows Azure platform and how you can start utilizing it when building your Windows Phone 7 applications. This involved a high-level overview of the Azure platform and why Azure makes sense for the Windows Phone platform. Then he did a quick walk through creating a sample SQL Azure database, a service you can call to the database with, and how to incorporate that data within your Windows Phone applications utilizing the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7.

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Recording of webinar 'Secure and Personalize Your Silverlight App with WCF RIA Services' by Brian Noyes

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Watch a recording of Brian's webinar 'Secure and Personalize Your Silverlight App with WCF RIA Services' delivered on May 25th, 2011.

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In this webinar Brian Noyes explains how to secure both the server and client sides of your application. He demonstrates how your Silverlight application can join a secure session of a hosting web site or set up its own security context by logging in the user from the app. Next Brian goes onto how to use a RIA Services authentication domain service even if you are not using any other features of RIA services to perform user authentication and get roles and identity information back to the client to perform client side authorization such as disabling features based on the rights of the individual user. Finally, the webinar explains how to add user-specific settings and preferences and have easy access to those on the client side and persistence on the server side.

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Recording of webinar 'Getting started with the Silverlight 5 Beta' by Michael Crump

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Watch a recording of Michael's webinar 'Getting started with the Silverlight 5 Beta' delivered on May 11th, 2011.

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This webinar made a quick intro to all new features in Silverlight 5 - XAML Debugging, OOB - Multiple Windows Support, SoundEffect Class for Low-Latency and more.

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Video for the article "Getting started with Windows Azure and Windows Phone"

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Getting started with Windows Phone 7 and Azure" by Michael Crump.

Video for the article "NESL: Native Extension for Silverlight or No (Except Seven) Limits for Silverlight? Experimenting the Sensor API with a Wiimote"

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This video shows how to build a Silverlight OOB application which interacts with a Wiimote using the NESL libraries and a
motion sensor driver for the Wiimote; all in less than 10 minutes.

It accompanies the article "NESL: Native Extension for Silverlight or No (Except Seven) Limits for Silverlight? Experimenting the Sensor API with a Wiimote" by Walter Ferrari!

Pairing the Wiimote and installing the sensor motion driver

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Take a look at this short video demostrating how to pair the wiimote and install the motion sensor driver.

It accompanies the article "NESL: Native Extension for Silverlight or No (Except Seven) Limits for Silverlight? Experimenting the Sensor API with a Wiimote" by Walter Ferrari!

Recording of webinar 'Switching on the Cloud for Silverlight' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Watch a recording of Gill's webinar 'Switching on the Cloud for Silverlight' delivered on March 23rd, 2011.

Download the webinar slides | Download the demos | Download the Q&A document

Gill covered the following topics:

Parts of Windows Azure
Why does a Silverlight developer need to care?
Developing for Windows Azure
- Required tools
- Emulators (“local cloud”)
- Azure Portal
Moving Silverlight applications to the cloud
- Database only
- WCF
- REST
- Entire Silverlight applications
- RIA Services
- Azure as intermediate layer for Twitter
Using blob storage
- Silverlight/Azure video player
Windows Phone and Azure
- Accessing services in the cloud
- WP7 Push Notification services

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Recording of webinar 'Building LOB Applications with Silverlight and WCF Data Services' by Emil Stoychev

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Watch a recording of Emil Stoychev's webinar 'Building Line-of-Business Applications with Silverlight and WCF Data Services' delivered on February 23rd, 2011.

Download the demos used during the webinar | Download the slides

Emil covered the following topics:

1. WCF

What is WCF?

What is WCF Data Services? OData?

Service architecture

2. Working with data

Querying data

Reviewed briefly:

Hierarchical data

Filtering, grouping, sorting, paging

Lazy Loading

CRUD

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Video for the article: Discover Sharepoint with Silverlight part - 2

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This video shows the "Sharepoint Navigator" application in action. This application is a small tool capable of navigate into the hierarchy of the client object model, that Sharepoint 2010 puts at disposal of the Silverlight developers. You will see how to use the application to explore your Sharepoint site collection from the client object model perspective.

Recording of webinar 'Build an end-to-end Silverlight 4 Application' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Watch a recording of Gill Cleeren's webinar 'Build a Silverlight 4 Application end-to-end' delivered on December 15th, 2010.

Download the slides used during the webinar | Download the demos | Download the Q&A document

Gill covered the following topics:

SketchFlow
WCF RIA Services
Data binding & DataGrid
MVVM
MEF
Commanding & behaviors
Messaging, navigation & dialogs
Custom controls & third party controls
OOB
Printing

Since Data binding and MEF were already covered in previous webinars (recording of webinar on Data Binding, recording of webinar on MEF), these topics were reviewed only briefly in this webinar.

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Silverlight and Sharepoint 2010

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this video, you will see how to create a Silverlight application capable to list the Libraries and Lists of a Sharepoint site in a DataGrid.

Using this application you will be able to insert one or more files into a Library or List through a simple drag & drop of files from the file system over an item of the DataGrid.

Recording of webinar '10 Silverlight Tips' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Watch a recording of Gill Cleeren's webinar '10 Silverlight Tips' delivered on October 27th, 2010.

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The 10 Silverlight Tips covered by Gill were:

Behaviors
PathListBox
Binding tricks
INavigationContentLoader
Debugging services
Securing service communication
Leveraging ASP.NET membership
Uploading and downloading files
Downloading functionality on-demand
Bag of tricks

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Paging WCF Ria Services entities in MVVM applications

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Video supporting Andrea Boschin's article: Paging WCF Ria Services entities in Model-View-ViewModel applications.

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SharePoint and Silverlight - Introduction

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In this video we see three different methods to add a Silverlight application to a web page of a Sharepoint site.

In the first method we use the Shared document Library provided by Sharepoint. In the second method we use a Web Part to deploy the Silverlight application and, in the third method, we use a module of Sharepoint as a "ferryboat".

This video is supporting Walter Ferrari's article: Silverlight and Sharepoint 2010: Getting Started

Recording of SilverlightShow Webinar: Lets MEF - Overview of the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Watch a recording of Gill Cleeren's webinar 'Lets MEF - Overview of the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4', which took place on October 14th, 10 am PDT.

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In this webinar Gill Cleeren looked at how MEF works and how we can put it to our use. The live session covered the following agenda:

Introduction to MEF
Core concepts
Small MEF demos
Marketplace demo
Q&A

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Silverlight Behaviors for Designers

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Watch a recording (56 mins) of SilverlightShow webinar “Silverlight Behaviors for Designers” delivered on July 14th, 2010.
In this live webinar sesion the UX designer and consultant Zhivko Dimitrov explains how to add interactivity with Silverlight behaviors, and bring your designs to life without writing a single line of code.
The webinar included an extensive QA session and covered a number of topics:

Creating and Editing Simple Behaviors
Assigning Behaviors to Visual Elements
Adding Animation to Behaviors
Controlling States and Storyboards from Behaviors
Conditional Behaviors
3rd Party Plug-in Behaviors

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The Ugly Duckling - Part 2

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In the first part of the series, I introduced the application, and created the “ugly duckling” version, where the end user could already browse the and watch the videos. In this part, I am going to add some bling to the app – namely the Intro animation, the ability to skip it, and to replay it. The Intro animation itself is not created with Silverlight, so I will just use it as a video. This part takes heavy use of Visual States, Behaviors and Easings.

That screencast is connected with the Transforming an Ugly Duckling to a Graceful Swan with Expression Blend and Silverlight - Part 2 Intro Animation article.

Here is what happens in the screencast:

Time	Content
@ 0:00	Introduction and showing off what we are building in this screencast
@ 1:40	Adding the intro animation – preparation
@ 2:40	Adding the intro animation - MediaElement
@ 3:47	Visual State for playing the intro and transition between PlayingIntro and ShowingUIAfterIntro states
@ 4:57	Make the App start up in the PlayingIntro state
@ 6:07	Adding the EndCueTrigger
@ 9:40	Adding the playback status display
@ 12:50	Adding IntroStatusVisible and IntroStatusHidden states and transitions
@ 14:38	Creating the MediaElementStateToVSMBehavior
@ 16:18	Using the MediaElementStateToVSMBehavior to show and hide the video status display
@ 19:08	Creating the DisplayMediaStatusBehavior
@ 21:00	Using the DisplayMediaStatusBehavior to set the text for the video status display
@ 22:30	Adding the skip intro button
@ 24:30	Adding a glow effect to the skip intro button
@ 25:50	Creating MouseOverOpacityBehavior
@ 28:14	Applying the MouseOverOpacityBehavior to the skip intro button
@ 29:35	Making the skip intro button skip the intro
@ 31:30	Replay Intro – creating the highlight on the box
@ 33:20	Creating ReplayIntroVisible and ReplayIntroHidden states and transitions
@ 38:10	Adding some code to the skip intro and replay intro features
@ 41:30	Summing up

The Ugly Duckling

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The first screencast shows how to create the ugly version that I am going to work from in the later parts of the series. The ugly version lists all the videos (or ReferenceItems), and allows the user to see the explanation and play back the showcase videos.

That screencast is connected with the Transforming an Ugly Duckling to a Graceful Swan with Expression Blend and Silverlight - Part I article.

Here is what happens in the screencast:

Time	Content
@ 0:00	Introduction and showing off the finished application
@ 1:59	Creating the application in Blend
@ 2:50	Using Blend’s Sample Data feature to store the data for the video
@ 6:58	Displaying the sample data in a ListBox
@ 8:37	Creating the Details view with title, description, video and the more information link
@ 13:33	Running the project for the first time, master-detail scenario works
@ 14:39	Importing the videos into the project
@ 15:42	Importing the thumbnail images to the project
@ 16:20	Replacing the sample data with real data
@ 17:20	Running the Ugly Duckling application with the real data
@ 19:10	Wrapping up