End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/26/2012)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week October 22 - 28, 2012:

• Day 7 of SilverlightShow Series 'Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks!'
• New Article: "Windows 8 Metro: Understanding globalization"
• New Part 8 from Kevin Dockx's Article Series on Strategies for Code Reuse: a Windows 8 Store App
• Part 5 of Gill Cleeren's series on building connected Win8 apps: Integrating with public APIs such as Facebook & Twitter
• 40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Day 7 of SilverlightShow Series 'Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks!'

A while ago, SilverlightShow author Samidip Basu started an article series showing the 8 common tips & tricks towards developing real-world Windows 8 Metro apps. This week we published the next part:

• Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 7

In this article, Samidip is discussing how OData service could fuel CRUD operations from your Apps and how to have Push Notifications supported through your cloud service, thus feeding various Tiles & Toasts.

New Article: "Windows 8 Metro: Understanding globalization"

Read Part 14 from Andrea Boschin's article series on Windows 8 Metro:

• Windows 8 Metro: Understanding globalization

The whole series will gradually be published into a multi-part ebook. Part 1, including the first 7 chapters from the series, is already available on SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf.

New Part 8 from Kevin Dockx's Article Series on Strategies for Code Reuse: a Windows 8 Store App

We also published the next part of the series "Developing for a multitude of clients" in which Kevin Dockx discusses strategies for designing your application for a multitude of different clients. Read it here:

• Part 8: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check.

In this article, Kevin explains what can (and what should) be reused when building a Windows 8 Store application.

Part 5 of Gill Cleeren's series on building connected Win8 apps: Integrating with public APIs such as Facebook & Twitter

• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 5: Integrating with public APIs such as Facebook and Twitter

In this article, Gill is going to switch gears and explore how to build apps that integrate with public APIs such as Facebook and Twitter. For both Facebook and Twitter, he is going to explore the way that you can authenticate with these services so that your app can access the API.

40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Top 10 features of the Microsoft Surface
  
• Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's controversial Mr. Windows 8
• Win8 Developers: Don’t Make the Terrible Mistake of Treating the Windows Store like the iOS App Store
• Windows Devices: The Future Is Called RT
• Bill Gates Talks Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 & Surface

All other news we published:

Monday (October 22nd, 2012)

• Who Are the Winners of Amazon Gift Cards in Gill Cleeren's 'Worst Class Name' Challenge?
• Get more quality reviews for your Windows Style apps
• Turning to the past to power Windows' future: An in-depth look at WinRT
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide: Getting User Input
• Shortcut Key Handling in Windows Store Apps
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 3) Using Blend to Help Design Your Windows 8 Apps–Interactive Mode
• Ten Things You Need to Know About Win8 WebView
• Windows Phone Transforming Sprites
• How to Test Your Windows 8 App Before Submitting to the Store
• Creating a custom Tile to link to your website

Tuesday (October 23rd, 2012)

• Listing Font Names in Windows 8 C# XAML Apps
• Introducing RadDataForm for Windows Phone
• Your app needs a privacy policy in the Windows Store
• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 5) - Know about LayoutAwarePage
• Testing in-app puchasing in Windows 8
• AdDuplex Windows Phone SDK v.2 Released
• Using async/await without .NET Framework 4.5
• Preparing your Windows 8 Applications for the store

Wednesday (October 24th, 2012)

• Adding About and Privacy Policy tabs to Windows Store App Settings
• Styling Windows 8, Part 1: Colors and Themes
• 9 Tips for an Excellent Windows Store App
• More Sprite Transforms: XNA Rotation and Scaling
• Integrating Knockout and jQueryMobile
• Windows Phone Memory Profiling: The Object Graph View
• Designing your Windows 8 app to be the best in its category
• Musings on WCF RIA Services #4: A Plan for the Future

Thursday (October 25th, 2012)

• Windows 8 - Async Task Mechanism and OnNavigatedTo, Part 2
• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 6) - Integrating Settings Panel in Charm Bar
• Windows 8 apps: Make your GridView parallactic
• Windows 8 App Store Submissions
• Report: Windows Phone Marketplace Tops 125K Published Apps
• Easily create light themed styles for your Windows 8 Settings Flyout
• Postprocessing Effects on Windows Phone, Part II
• Introducing Windows Store App Labs for app builders

Friday (October 26th, 2012)

• MSDN study links for exam 70-484: Essentials of Developing Windows Metro style Apps using C#
• Getting Started with SQLite on Windows 8 > Installation
• Windows reimagined. #Windows8
• Updated PersistHelper for #Win8Dev #WinRT
• Windows Store, Part 13 - Navigation using C# and XAML
• WPUtils 1.3: A Set of Blend Behaviors for Your Windows Phone Apps
• Microsoft DevRadio: Developing for Windows 8 in 1/2 the Time (Part 10) Using Event Handlers
• Windows Store Apps and XAML Based Printing – Rough Notes
• An Overview of Windows 8 Sensor APIs
• HexColor for use with Windows Phone and Windows 8

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