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Recording of Webinar 'Latest and greatest in Windows 8.1 for developers' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:30:12 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Latest and greatest in Windows 8.1 for developers' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on October 30th, 2013.

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Webinar summary: Microsoft has created a huge update for Windows 8, known as Windows 8.1. While the OS is definitely feeling much more polished, for developers, a lot has changed as well. The good news is that your apps still run without modification. The bad news is that, if you don’t take advantage of the new stuff, your users will get a less-than-optimal experience.

In this webinar, we’ll take you on a tour of all what’s new in Windows 8.1 for developers. We’ll take a look at the updates to XAML (WinJS isn’t covered), the updated Search, the new tiles, the new screen sizes, the great new features in Visual Studio 2013 and much more.

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Recording of Webinar 'Working in the background in Windows 8' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:49:27 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Working in the background in Windows 8' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on May 9th, 2013.

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Webinar summary: Windows 8 introduces a new process lifecycle management. No longer does the user have to close an app explicitly. Instead, Windows manages everything. But how can we then run code in the background, is this even possible in Windows 8?
Turns out there’s a specific API that we can use to build processes (or tasks) that run in the background. It offers quite a few options, varying from simple using push notifications, over RAW notifications to more complex scenarios using the ControlChannelTrigger. In this session, we’ll take you through the several options offered by Windows 8.

As usual, we gave away free ebooks for the attendees of this webinar who left valuable feedback in our webinar survey. See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Recording of Webinar 'Applied MVVM in Windows 8 apps' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:48:48 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Applied MVVM in Windows 8 apps: not your typical MVVM session' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on February 26th, 2013.

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Webinar summary: For some time now, the community has been touting the MVVM pattern as being the best way to build XAML-based applications. By now, you should be convinced that MVVM is really the way to go. But then, you start building a real-world Windows 8 application and you encounter all kinds of challenges you hadn’t thought about before. How do I properly structure an application? How do I implement navigation? How do I manage tiles or contracts from MVVM? And how do the new data controls in Windows 8 work in combination with MVVM?
A whole list of questions that this session will aim at answering!

This is an advanced session.

As usual, we gave away free ebooks for the attendees of this webinar who left valuable feedback in our webinar survey. See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Windows 8 Blendability - MVVMLightSample

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:24:39 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development–Blendability, Part 2: Services" by Braulio Diez on calling services and integration with MVVM Light Toolkit.

Windows 8 Blendability - ContractsSample

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:21:09 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development–Blendability, Part 2: Services" by Braulio Diez on calling services and integration with MVVM Light Toolkit.

Windows 8 Blendability - SimpleDesign

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:18:12 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development + Blendability, Part 2: Services" by Braulio Diez on calling services and integration with MVVM Light Toolkit.

Windows 8 Blendability - Intro

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:06:38 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development + Blendability, Part 2: Services" by Braulio Diez on calling services and integration with MVVM Light Toolkit.

Win8 Puzzle App - Converters

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:59:00 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development + Blendability" by Braulio Diez on building a sample drag & drop puzzle application in Windows 8.

Win8 Puzzle App - CreatingProjectListView

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:58:00 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development + Blendability" by Braulio Diez on building a sample drag & drop puzzle application in Windows 8.

Win8 Puzzle App - Drag and Drop #2

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:57:00 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development + Blendability" by Braulio Diez on building a sample drag & drop puzzle application in Windows 8.

Win8 Puzzle App - Drag and Drop #1

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:56:00 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development + Blendability" by Braulio Diez on building a sample drag & drop puzzle application in Windows 8.

Win8 Puzzle App - PuzzleCanvas

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:55:00 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development + Blendability" by Braulio Diez on building a sample drag & drop puzzle application in Windows 8.

Win8 Puzzle App - Intro

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:53:00 GMT

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development + Blendability" by Braulio Diez on building a sample drag & drop puzzle application in Windows 8.

Recording of Webinar 'MVVM in Windows 8' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:36:40 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'MVVM in Windows 8' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on October 29th, 2012.

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Webinar summary: With Metro-style apps, Microsoft is pushing MVVM with a built-in solution in some of the templates. But what if you’re now 100% clear on the concepts of MVVM? Fear no longer! In this session, we’ll explore the MVVM pattern along with its benefits (and let’s be honest, disadvantages as well) from the Windows 8 perspective. Next to the core principles, we’ll dive deep in how we can apply the pattern for Windows 8 app by building an end-to-end app based on the pattern. We’ll be using the excellent MVVM Light toolkit for our discussion.

As usual, we gave away free ebooks for the attendees of this webinar who left valuable feedback in our webinar survey. See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Recording of Webinar 'Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world: connecting with services and integrating the cloud' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:21:15 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world: connecting with services and integrating the cloud' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on August 15th, 2012.

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Webinar summary: Windows 8 Metro style apps will give users a great experience. Apps promise the user to be alive and connected. Being connected means interfacing with services and the cloud. But what options do we have to make the connection to the outside world?
In this session, we'll explore how WinRT apps can connect with services (WCF, REST...) and the cloud to offer a great experience. We'll also see how internals like roaming data can be used in your apps.

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 a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf
one of those who tweeted the webinar won Gill's recently released ebook Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook from Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Recording of Part 2 of the Webinar 'Advanced Windows 8 Metro' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:31:58 GMT

Watch a recording of Part 2 of the webinar 'Advanced Windows 8 Metro' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on July 25th, 2012.

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Watch recording of Part 1 here »

Webinar summary: Windows 8 is just around the corner! As developers, we need to be ready to build Metro style applications. In the last couple of months, we got a lot of information already, although most of it covered the basics. It’s time to move beyond that.

This webinar picks up where the intro talks (see the recordings of earlier webinars on Windows 8) stopped, so expect coverage of topics you may have seen some content about or even none at all!

Agenda for Part 2:

Localization
Async
Working with files and local and roaming data
Building WinRT reusable components
Background tasks and lock screen apps
Bag-Of-Tricks

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 win a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf (there you may also find Gill Cleeren's ebook Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506)
two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won Gill's ebook Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook from Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Recording of Part 1 of the Webinar 'Advanced Windows 8 Metro' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:13:40 GMT

Watch a recording of Part 1 of the webinar 'Advanced Windows 8 Metro' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on July 18th, 2012.

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Join part 2 next Wednesday, July 25 at 10 am PST.

Periodic tile updates and push notifications
Data
- Data binding
- Data controls
  - GridView loading on demand
  - Semantic Zoom
- OData
- Background downloads
- Accessing services
  - WCF
  - JSON
- Live SDK services

We welcome you to join part 2 next Wed, 10 am PST (check your local time), when Gill will talk about localization, async, building WinRT reusable components and more. Sign up for Part 2!

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 win a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf (there you may also find Gill Cleeren's ebook Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506)
two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won Gill's ebook Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook from Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Recording of Webinar '10 Things Silverlight Developers Should Know About Windows 8' by Michael Crump

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:11:04 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar '10 Things Silverlight Developers Should Know About Windows 8' delivered by Silverlight MVP Michael Crump on July 3rd, 2012.

View the webinar slides (.ppt / .pptx) | Get demos | Go to the QandA page

Webinar summary: In this webinar Silverlight MVP Michael Crump will look at how Silverlight developers skills translate over to WinRT. He will dive straight into 10 things that he has discovered while working with WinRT. You will quickly find out just how much you will need to learn to work with this new platform.

Agenda:

1. Starting with the Fundamentals
2. Application Lifecycle
3. XML/Code Namespaces
4. Making WebRequest - Async
5. Storage
6. Navigation
7. Controls
8. Animations
9. Freebies
10. Monetizing

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 a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf
two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won a free ebook from Packt Publishing, choosing between Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook or MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Recording of Webinar 'Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8' by Gill Cleeren

editorial@silverlightshow.net (SilverlightShow ) — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:46:23 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on May 22nd, 2012.

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Webinar summary: Live tiles were introduced with Windows Phone 7 and are one of the most unique user experience elements of the platform. Their success is probably why Microsoft introduced them in Windows 8 Metro apps as well. The concept is the same as in Windows Phone 7, the options are however much more extended. Notifications and push notifications also found their way from Windows Phone into the Metro platform.

In this new SilverlightShow webinar, Gill Cleeren will explore these exciting features together with you to introduce you further into the world of Windows 8.

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 win a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf
two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won Gill's just-released ebook Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook from Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks!

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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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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.

Download the webinar slides (ppt / pptx) | Download the demos | Get Q&A Document

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!