End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (6/1/2012)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week May 28 - June 3, 2012:

• Recording of This Week's 'Prism and WCF RIA Services' Webinar
• A Tweet Away from Winning Free Silverlight 5 Ebooks by Packt Publishing
• In Case You Missed It, Andrea Boschin's Latest Article: 'Win8 Metro: Application life-cycle'
• 50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Recording of This Week's 'Prism and WCF RIA Services' Webinar

On Wednesday (May 30th, 2012), SilverlightShow had the honor to host another great webinar by Brian Noyes - Prism and WCF RIA Services: Two Great Toolkits That Work Great Together. Those of you who didn't make it to the live session can now watch the recorded presentation online:

• Recording of Webinar 'Prism and WCF RIA Services' by Brian Noyes

The next SilverlightShow webinar to be delivered is 'Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world: connecting with services and integrating the cloud'. Sign up now for the live session on July 31, 10 am PST (your local time). View full webinar info >>

A Tweet Away from Winning Free Silverlight 5 Ebooks by Packt Publishing

'Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.' said Margaret Fuller. And we agree!

That's why SilverlightShow and Packt Publishing are giving away to 2 of you free ebook copies of both the books "Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook" and "Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration".

How to enter the raffle? It's simple and easy: 

• tweet either of the above books using hashtag #packtbook
• include a link to the respective book in your tweet

All tweets should be done by 11:59 pm PST on June 6th, 2012.

The 2 winners will be randomly picked and announced on Thursday, June 7th. 

In Case You Missed It, Andrea Boschin's Latest Article: 'Win8 Metro: Application life-cycle'

Last week we published the 4th part of Andrea Boschin's Windows 8 Metro Series on SilverlightShow. In case you missed it, here it is:

• Windows 8 Metro: Something about application life-cycle

Also from this series: Create your apps with simplicity in mind | Starting your first App from scratch | Layout, view states & navigation

50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Don’t Hate on Windows 8 (Infographic)
  
• Silverlight Metro Charms
  
• Client-Side Logging in Silverlight
  
• Microsoft's Smart Decision for the Windows Phone Marketplace
  
• 4 ways to make money with Windows Phone
  

All other news we published:

Monday (May 28th, 2012)

• Show ratings with stars in WinRT XAML
• Windows Phone - Consuming and Persisting State of OData
• Clearing the page cache in Windows 8 Metro apps
• How to save ListView and ScrollViewer family controls scroll position
• Loading WinRT Types via Reflection in Windows 8
• Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Background Audio with XAML/C#
• Porting apps to Windows 8 Metro
• Microsoft Posts Windows 8 App Porting Guides
• Styling Windows Phone 7 Pivot Control Titles

Tuesday (May 29th, 2012)

• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 21-27, 2012
• Performance tips for Metro style XAML apps
• Metro Walkthrough: Creating a Task List with a ListView and IndexedDB
• .NET 4.5 WinRT: Get custom attributes from enum value
• Controlling caching of BitMapImage under WinRT
• Your first DirectX 11 Metro application using SharpDX
• Being productive in the background – background tasks

Wednesday (May 30th, 2012)

• Visual Studio Live! Redmond - just 3 days to sign up super early-bird and save $400
• Online Version of SilverlightShow May Newsletter Available!
• Why isn’t my Sterling database persisting between application loads?
• The 256MB device difference which isn't documented
• An Address Book Application Made in MVVM For Metro Style App in Windows 8 Part 2
• The Making of Bandinos–a game for Windows Phone
• Setting up Team Foundation Services on Windows 8
• Move Your WP7 Apps Links to the Marketplace
• Flash is on Windows 8, but that's just part of the story
• Yet Another Podcast #66–Chris Sells

Thursday (May 31st 2012)

• Winners of free SilverlightShow and Packt ebooks from yesterday's Prism and WCF RIA Services webinar
• Everything You Need to Start Writing Windows 8 Metro Applications Today
• Develop HTML5 Windows Phone Apps with Apache Cordova
• Metro XAML Nugget: App Bar AutoMagic
• Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #8 – RadHubTile
• Windows Phone - BingMapsTask
• LightSwitch Tips & Tricks on Query Performance
• Detecting Zune Connection for PhotoChooserTask
• Silverlight: TextBox binding only works when control not in focus
• Microsoft Photosynth arrives, and Marketplace continues its roll

Friday (June 1st, 2012)

• XAMLflix Video Tutorial: RadMenu for Silverlight and WPF
• Windows Store for Release Preview
• What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview
• MEF and TPL Dataflow NuGet Packages for .NET Framework 4.5 RC
• Windows Phone SignalR Helper!
• Slidedeck and Code from Kevin Dockx's Windows Phone Presentation at WiPhug
• Designing Metro Style Apps in Blend and VS: What'sS New in the RC?
• Windows 8 Release Preview and Visual Studio 2012 RC
• Windows Phone Performance - Part 5 of X: A Developer’s look at the Nokia Lumia 610
• Callisto: A toolkit for XAML Metro style apps

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