Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week April 2-8, 2012:
Taking in mind the recent interest of SilverlightShow readers in Windows 8 Metro development, one of our authors - Silverlight MVP Andrea Boschin - is starting a new article series on the topic.
Here, Andrea is going to share with you his evolving experience with the new Windows 8 Metro Applications. Read Part 1 on the link below:
During the series, Andrea will be discovering most of the wonderful tools behind Metro applications, but in this first article, he will briefly switch off his programmer side to take in serious consideration the design aspects behind Metro.
The recording of Samidip Basu's SilverlightShow webinar - 10 Best Practices for Windows Phone Developers: Frameworks, Toolkits & Tips - is now available online. Watch it here:
Our next webinar is 'Advanced MVVM for Windows Phone Developers' with presenter Peter Kuhn. Join us on April 18, 10 am PDT (your local time).
Exclusively on SilverlightShow, and thanks to
Packt Publishing, you can now enjoy a free chapter of the book "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action". You can read the chapter here:
And that's not all! Packt Publishing are also offering a 27% discount on this e/book (using code dssvl2) to all our readers.
A co-author of this book is SilverlightShow articles author and webinar presenter Braulio Diez.
A new month came, and it's time to check out which SilverlightShow ebooks were most appreciated by our readers in the past 4 weeks:
Until April 8th, you can win one of the bestselling ebooks for March in our weekly Win-with-a-tweet Ebook Giveaway. Find more details on this week's Twitter contest here >>
We also just added a new ebook to our Bookshelf:
Find out how easy working with Prism 4 can be, when you have a good tutor to quickly introduce you to a number of specific feature sets that help you build your client application as a composite application.
Top 5:
All other news we published:
Monday (April 2nd, 2012)
- Who Are The Winners in Our Twitter Contest & Which Is the Next Ebook You Can Win
- Bard's Tile III : Push Notifications
- [Windows 8] How to geolocalize your users?
- Tango (7.1.1): Detecting Devices With 256MB
- Using Reactive extensions for feeding test sensor-readings in Windows Phone
- Faking data in WP7 and other .Net platforms
- Plex Developer compares development on iPhone, Android and WinPhone7
- Porting the DragFlickBehavior from Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro Style
- Fixing a Streaming Issue in ShoutStreamSource on Windows Phone
- Windows 8: Applications for the UK Windows Store
- The Animated Pie Slice in Windows 8
- Almost One Week with Windows 8
- MVVM Light V4b1 for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (with installer)
Tuesday (April 3rd, 2012)
- SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week March 26 - April 1, 2012
- Metro, Direct2D and XAML – Burst of Performance in Windows 8
- Consume a LightSwitch OData Service from a Windows Phone application
- RIM Rumoured To Adopt Windows Phone On BlackBerry Phones
- XAML Authoring in Blend and VS: Workflow, tools, and tasks
- Globalizing and Localizing a Windows Phone App
- Things I Missed So You Won’t Have To – WP7 SDK
- Windows Phone 7 “Mango” Development 201 – Push Notifications
- XNA port of "We Are Bugs"
- Don’t have a Fitt, size does actually matter (for mobile controls, that is)!
- Using Aspect-Oriented Programming to Initialize and Connect WPF Commands
Wednesday (April 4th, 2012)
- SilverlightShow Most Active Forum Member for March Announced
- Mozilla shows off a Metro style Firefox prototype for Windows 8
- Impressions of Windows 8 Part 1 of 2
- Advanced transparent live tiles with count for windows phone
- Best Practices for Optimizing Windows Phone App Startup Time
- How to improve performance in your Metro style app
- LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–March 2012
- Using Reactive Extensions for Streaming Data from Database
- How to Search for a Contact in WP7 using the Contacts class?
Thursday (April 5th, 2012)
Friday (April 6th, 2012)
- Fixing the MVVMLight code snippets in Visual Studio 11
- 10 Apps Windows Phone 7 Needs to Succeed
- Xpert 360’s Dynamics CRM Online Adapter LightSwitch Extension
- Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Conversion strategy (2 of 12)
- New Episode of Visual Studio Toolbox is now live - Building Metro Style Apps with XAML
- Windows 8 Cheat Sheet: Get Started Easily!
- How to fetch selected item of ListView in HTML based Windows 8 Metro Application
- What is Metro, really?
- Tackling performance killers: Common performance problems with Metro style apps
- Everything you wanted to know about databinding in WPF, Silverlight and WP7 (Part One)
- Windows 8 and the Windows Phone SDK, pt. 2
Enjoy your weekend and return at SilverlightShow on Monday for a whole new week full of exciting news and content!