Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week April 16-22, 2012:
This week we published the next parts of the following SilverlightShow series:
The recording of Peter Kuhn's SilverlightShow webinar - Advanced MVVM for Windows Phone - is now available online. Watch it here:
Our next webinar is 'Contracts and Charms in Windows 8' with presenter Gill Cleeren. Join us on April 24th, 10 am PST (your local time).
SilverlightShow and Visual Studio Live are giving away one free pass ($1,995 value) for 
Visual Studio Live! New York event (taking place May 14-17, 2012 in New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge) to a member of SilverlightShow!
All you have to do to enter the contest is to post your top reason for attending this event in this SilverlightShow Forum Thread!
Need some inspiration? Check out the
top 10 reasons suggested by the event organizers.
All posts should be done by 11:59 pm PST on April 29th, 2012. The winner will be randomly picked and announced on Monday, April 30th.
See the complete rules of our contest here:
Read SilverlightShow interview with Brian Noyes - presenter of 4 sessions at Visual Studio Live!New York 4-day conference.
And the last Win-with-a-tweet ebook that you can win in our Twitter giveaway is:
The rules to win a free copy of the above ebook are simple:
1. Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightShow
2. Tweet this ebook using hashtag #silverlightshowebook or using this sample tweet:
"Ebook by @briannoyes and @silverlightshow: Working with #Prism 4 http://slshow.net/HfKzI4 #silverlight #silverlightshowebook".
Tweet the ebook now!
To enter the weekly giveaway, tweet this ebook until April 22nd, 2012.
The three winners will be announced on April 23rd on SilverlightShow.
Top 5:
All other news we published:
Monday (April 16th, 2012)
Tuesday (April 17th, 2012)
- Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Working with third party libraries and JSON (6 of 12)
- Windows 8 Page Navigation
- Announcing Windows Azure Media Services
- Creating great tiles for your Metro style app (part 1)
- Announcing the Windows 8 Editions
- Upgrading WCF Data Services Projects to WCF Data Services 5.0
- Windows Phone EvenTiles and TrialMode
- Heads Up: Working with JSON on Windows 8
- Writing a WP7 website scraper application
- Hacking for fun: porting a Silverlight Windows Phone app to WinRT in 9 hours
- Windows Phone 7 Layout Jitters and the SystemTray
- How to Save Email Address in WP7 using the SaveEmailAddressTask
Wednesday (April 18th, 2012)
- SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week April 9-15, 2012
- SilverlightShow Webinar Newsletter for April is Out!
- Peter Kuhn Teaches Silverlight Developers to Build XNA Apps on WP7
- Microsoft adds app reporting to Windows Phone Marketplace
- Telerik XAMLflix Introduces RadZipLibrary
- Handle Feature Reductions (Optimizing Windows Phone Apps for Lower Cost Devices)
- Taptitude - a Windows Phone Success Story
- Workaround for CA0055 Error with Silverlight Projects in Visual Studio 2010
- Reclaiming memory from Metro style apps
- Slides and source code for Laurent Bugnion's past talks this year
- Microsoft Evangelist confirms all Windows Phone 7 handsets will be upgraded to Windows Phone 8
- Escape the fear of writing XNA games for Windows Phone 7.5 and XBOX 360
Thursday (April 19th, 2012)
Friday (April 20th, 2012)
- 10 Quick Real-World WPDev Performance Tuning Tips
- Semantic Zoom with MVVMLight - Windows 8 Metro
- Managing "BYO" PCs in the enterprise (including WOA)
- Shape Your LightSwitch OData Using WCF RIA Services
- Getting the most out of your pixels - adapting to view state changes
- EvenTiles and 256-MB Windows Phone Devices
- An alternate implementation of HTTP gzip decompression for Windows Phone
- Using ItemContainerStyle to manage individual items of a bound CheckListBox
- Memory Profiling - Launching, Graphs and Markers
- Using a Style to Simulate TextTrimming on TextBox
Enjoy your weekend and return at SilverlightShow on Monday for a whole new week full of exciting news and content!