Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week October 1 - 7, 2012
SilverlightShow and Live! 360 will be sending one lucky SilverlightShow member to 
Visual Studio Live! Orlando conference, taking place at Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando, December 10-14, 2012!
One of you will get a free 
5-Day Package pass ($2,095 value) for this event in a simple contest! Note that this pass gives you access to 3 more co-located events.
How to get the pass?
Join SilverlightShow challenge "Headlines from the future" in the challenge portal Deed by posting your craziest idea on how development technologies will change in the future.
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Challenge completions accepted till November 12th, 2012.
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What is Visual Studio Live! Orlando?
It's a 5-Day Event that brings developers, software architects, programmers and designers together to learn from industry experts and Microsoft insiders! Attend 60+ sessions and full-day workshops on Mobile, Visual Studio / .NET, Web / HTML5, Windows 8 / WinRT, WPF / Silverlight and more. Learn more on the event »
The new thing in this year's event is that it is co-located in sunny Orlando with 
Cloud & Virtualization Live! and two more events - SharePoint Live! and SQL Server Live! .
Gill Cleeren recently started a new Windows 8 article series in which he's discussing the options you have to connect your Windows 8 apps to services.
The 4th part from the series was published this week, read it here:
Also check out the previous articles from this series:
In less than two weeks - on October 16th at 10 am PST (check your local time) - we'll be hosting another great SilverlightShow webinar '
MVVM in Windows 8'.
Register for this live session here »
In this session, Gill Cleeren will explore the MVVM pattern along with its benefits and disadvantages from the Windows 8 perspective.
To get a clue on what else will be covered in this live session, we've made the webinar slides publicly available:
Download the slides (.ppt/.pptx)
Top 5:
- Blend confusion. Which Blend for WPF, SL4, SL5 and Windows Store Apps?
- Microsoft does indeed have their own Windows Phone in the works
- Windows 8 – Toast Notification
- Creating a Direct2D game for WinRT
- Five Things to Know When Designing a Windows 8 App
All other news we published:
Monday (October 1st, 2012)
Tuesday (October 2nd, 2012)
- Downloading files in Windows 8 apps using Background Transfer feature
- Windows 8: Using WinRT APIs in Desktop Apps
- How to create a Alchemy game for Windows 8
- Animating item selection in a WP7 application
- How to create an infinite scrollable list for Windows Phone with LongListSelector
- Windows Store Part 10 - Styling of FlipView
- Using OAuth 2 in WinRT using C#: it has never been easier before
Wednesday (October 3rd, 2012)
Thursday (October 4th, 2012)
Friday (October 5th, 2012)
- Multilingual App Toolkit for developing Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012
- Tips on designing a great Windows Phone app
- Updating our built-in apps for Windows 8
- Windows 8 will be available to people in ***21 Days***
- Windows 8 – quick XAML parsing tip: mind the order of your property bindings!
- I’m Building a Windows 8 App
- WinRT: Regional Settings Misbehave?
- Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 8 launch on October 29 in San Francisco
- Working with Tile Notifications in Windows 8 Store Apps – Part I
- Musings on WCF RIA Services #1: The DomainDataSource
- File system change notifications in WinRT
Enjoy your weekend and return at SilverlightShow on Monday for a whole new week full of exciting news and content!