End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/4/2012)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week April 30 - May 6, 2012:

• SilverlightShow and Visual Studio Live! New York Contest is Over. Winner Announced!
• Part 6 of Gill Cleeren's Windows 8 & the Future of XAML Series
• New Article: 'Metro style applications – designing for the user'
• Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for the Month of April
• 50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

SilverlightShow and Visual Studio Live! New York Contest is Over. Winner Announced!

Visual Studio Live! New York

• Who grabs the free pass to Visual Studio Live! New York

Curious to find out some info from the kitchen of the conference? Read our interview with Brian Noyes - presenter of 4 sessions at the conference, and our interview with Ido Flatow - presenter at 3 sessions on WCF RIA Services.

Part 6 of Gill Cleeren's Windows 8 & the Future of XAML Series

Gill Cleeren continues his 'Windows 8 and the future of XAML' series with an article discussing the different types of updates Windows 8 apps can send to the user. Read Part 6 here:

• Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 6: Tiles, toasts and badges

As usual, the whole series will be released as a SilverlightShow ebook when completed, so stay tuned on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to find out when the ebook is out.

New Article: 'Metro style applications – designing for the user'

And another Windows 8 article was published this week:

• Metro style applications – designing for the user

In this article, the author Lazar Nikolov is talking about attracting users with nice and intuitive user experience in Windows 8 Metro applications.

Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for the Month of April

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:

• Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for April, 2012

Check out the 25+ titles on SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf »

50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Introducing the jQuery Mobile Metro Theme
  
• A XAML Guy digs into ASP.NET MVC4 (Part 1 of ?)
  
• Microsoft's First Windows Phone Partner Just Bailed
  
• WinRT Step-by-Step Tutorial: MVVM + GridView + SemanticZoom
  
• Gill Cleeren's New Book is Published: Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook!
  

All other news we published:

Monday (April 30th, 2012)

• Intro to XNA on Windows Phone Part 5
• How to Create Splash Screen in Windows Phone
• Skype for Windows Phone App, Wordament Comes to Marketplace, Bing desktop
• OData on Windows 8: Part 2 - The OData Client Library for Metro
• How to Share Links from WP7 to Social Networking Sites using the ShareLinkTask
• New MVVM Tutorial
• 120’000 downloads for #mvvmlight, 2 copies of Expression Studio to win
• How to Save Ringtones in WP7 using the SaveRingtoneTask

Tuesday (May 1st, 2012)

• Video: Getting Started with RadBreadCrumb for Silverlight and WPF
• Using Visual Studio LightSwitch To Orchestrate A Unity 3D Game
• Join Windows Phone Bar Camp in London, UK, May 19
• Getting The Flights Above You, And Much More, On Windows Phone, With WolframAlpha
• Four ways we’re improving Marketplace
• Unblock Files in Windows 8 using PowerShell and Registry

Wednesday (May 2nd, 2012)

• Windows Phone Location-aware applications: a tip to help you keep track of yourself
• Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfall (4 of n)
• Windows 8 Patch Support in HttpClient
• Co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak chooses the Lumia 900 over Android, calls Windows Phone "intuitive and beautiful"
• ListBox empty template – using visual states (part 1)
• How to access Application Manifest (WMAppManifest.xml) file in WP7 App at runtime
• Fast and fluid animations in your Metro style app
• Version 2 of YLAD (Your Last About dialog) released

Thursday (May 3rd, 2012)

• Connecting to WCF RIA Services in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using Upshot.js and Knockout.js
• Creating a Windows Metro style application in C++
• Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined
• Custom events in WinJS
• Windows Phone 7 sports application with Apache Cordova, jQuery Mobile Metro and ESPN API
• Hitting the market with your Windows Phone app
• Advanced Animations in WPF
• The web Marketplace launches in 22 new countries
• Delivering Rich Mobile Web Experiences in Windows Phone 7.5 (ESPN.com Case Study)

Friday (May 4th, 2012)

• Converting a Brush into a Resource in Blend
• Microsoft schedules Windows Phone developer summit for June
• Optimizing Performance For WP7 Bing Maps Control
• Windows 8 Metro Style Apps: How to build a great app
• Create Games for Windows 8 using Physamajig
• Inside Windows Phone #37 | Anatomy of a Successful WP Game - Taptitude
• Making Windows Media Center available in Windows 8
• Windows Phone development: Improving the startup time and responsiveness of your application

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