End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/25/2013)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week January 21 - 25, 2013:

• New Post from Peter Kuhn's Windows Phone 8 Series: Live Tiles and Lock Screen
• NEW SilverlightShow Article: Optimize Windows Store app startup with a waiting splash screen
• SilverlightShow & CodeFest Challenge You: Nominate the Best Win 8 / WinPhone 8 Tutorial & Win 6 Ebooks!
• 40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

New Post from Peter Kuhn's Windows Phone 8 Series: Live Tiles and Lock Screen

In the next part of Peter Kuhn's latest article series you will find more information on the new tiles and lock screen in Windows Phone 8. Read the post here:

• Windows Phone 8: Live Tiles and Lock Screen

For more articles from this author go here!

NEW SilverlightShow Article: Optimize Windows Store app startup with a waiting splash screen

Part 2 of Andrea Boschin's new article series on developing Windows Store apps was published this week at SilverlightShow. Check it out:

• Optimize Windows Store application startup with a waiting splash screen

Missed the first part from this series? Catch up here: Handle trial and in-app purchase with Windows Store apps!

SilverlightShow & CodeFest Challenge You: Nominate the Best Win 8 / WinPhone 8 Tutorial & Win 6 Ebooks!

SilverlightShow and Codefest (a 2-day event taking place in Ohrid, Macedonia on Feb 16 - 17, 2013) are looking for the most useful Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 online tutorial!

As a programmer you've surely come across such resources so all you have to do is share your tutorial pick inside our challenge and hope that others will like it, too.

The winner in this challenge gets a package of 6 SilverlightShow ebooks on Windows 8. Learn more »

Submit your tutorial pick here!

40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• The Windows Store App margin guidelines cheat sheet
• 8 Tips for Designing Windows Phone Apps
• Creating a Windows Phone 8 app from Head to Toe – Part 2 : Project Structure
• Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device
• Create an off-line Installer for the Windows Phone 7.8 SDK

All other news we published:

Monday (January 21st, 2013)

• WinRtAuthorizer – A Better Way to do OAuth with LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8
• Moving Beem from Static XML to Azure Mobile Services
• Windows Store App with Caliburn.Micro - Basic Databinding
• Connecting your website to your Windows Store App with meta tags
• Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone - Part 3 - Viewing Image Details
• OData on Windows 8 and Windows Phone
• The Windows Store App margin guidelines cheat sheet
• Remote Assistance in Windows 8
• 8 Tips for Designing Windows Phone Apps
• Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device
• [Windows Phone] Resuming your app from the Start Screen (or not) Part I

Tuesday (January 22nd, 2013)

• Maps in Windows Phone 8 and Phone toolkit: a winning team – Part 2
• Full Control LightSwitch (ServerApplicationContext And Generic File Handlers And Ajax Calls)
• Binding to a Windows Store AppBar button text
• Storage on Windows 8 and Windows Phone (part 1)
• Yet Another Podcast #90 – Phil Japikse on Windows 8 & WinJS
• Creating a Windows Phone 8 app from Head to Toe – Part 2 : Project Structure
• Searching a database solution for Windows Phone 7-8 and for Windows 8
• Building the Bing Apps for Windows 8
• Copying Nokia’s Photobeamer with SignalR and WP8
• Using the Grid App Template in Windows 8
• Windows Phone 8 and 7.x Design Guidelines

Wednesday (January 23rd, 2013)

• How to use the Gyrometer Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications
• Getting more visibility for your Windows Store app Part 1: Create great apps
• Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8 Live Tile light up for Windows Phone OS 7.1 apps
• Improve the usability of search in your Windows Style App
• A Windows Phone 8 Project Template Without the Fluff
• Windows 8 Storage Spaces: a how-to guide
• Now Available: Windows Phone SDK Update for 7.8
• Customized Sample data
• Running the Windows Phone 8 Emulator in a Virtual Machine (Video)

Thursday (January 24th, 2013)

• Printing from MVVM XAML Windows 8 Store apps - the final frontier
• Customized semantic zoom: an alternative to common grouping
• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Adding Push Notifications
• Create an off-line Installer for the Windows Phone 7.8 SDK
• Tips for Building a BO for Silverlight and RIA
• Traits of a good Windows Store app privacy policy
• Migrating iOS MVC Applications to Windows Phone 8 (M-V-VM architecture)
• The Five Minute Gauge Control for WinRT/XAML
• DataContextChanged event for WinRT

Friday (January 25th, 2013)

• Building an Image Browser for Windows 8
• Microsoft DevRadio: XAML and Windows 8 App Development
• Windows Phone Emulator Hyper-V Error
• WPF in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) Industries
• Tip: a common error with Dependency Property metadata
• Portable MVVM Light - Move Your View Models
• Windows Phone 8 – Wrapping up the Contact Details Screen in Conference Buddy
• The Windows Phone Map Control

Enjoy your weekend and return at SilverlightShow on Monday for a whole new week full of exciting news and content!