Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week June 25 - 29, 2012:
In the beginning of the week, we published the next part of Andrea Boschin's Windows 8 Metro Series. Read it here:
Missed the previous parts? Catch up here: Part 1 - Create your apps with simplicity in mind | Part 2 - Starting your first App from scratch | Part 3 - Layout, view states and navigation | Part 4 - Something about application life-cycle | Part 5 - Asynchrony made easy
Our upcoming webinar 'Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world' is postponed for August 15th (the initially announced date was July 31st) due to some changes in the schedule of our webinar presenter Gill Cleeren. Read more here:
- SilverlightShow Webinar 'Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world' Rescheduled for August 15th
But before that, join next week's SilverlightShow webinar with presenter Michael Crump: '10 Things Silverlight Developers Should Know About Windows 8'. Date & time: July 3rd at 10 am PST (your local time). Sign up now »
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All other news we published:
Monday (June 25th, 2012)
- Working With Live Tiles in Windows 8 Metro App - Part 1
- Weekly Thai Recipe! for Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 App Hub VS Windows 8 Dashboard
- Developing a Windows 8 Metro App Part 4: My “Reveal a Picture” Algorithm and Basic Code
- Mapping and Location in Windows Phone
- Windows 8 Metro App: Error during App Packaging
- Developer Guidance for Web Sites with Flash Content in Windows 8
- First Look to Telerik RadControls for Win8 Metro
- 57% Of Mobile Developers Plan To Adopt Windows Phone
- Smooth splash screen transition for Windows Phone panorama apps
- Will new features make Windows Phone 8 more user and developer friendly?
Tuesday (June 26th, 2012)
- How to market Windows Phone games
- How To: Bing Maps Custom Tile Overlay - Google Maps
- VIDEO: Hands on with Windows Phone 7.8’s amazing new Start Screen
- Share Contract through MVVM in Windows 8
- Windows 8: Advanced Live Tiles, Part 2
- WP7 Database Support – The Quick and Dirty Intro
- Yet Another Podcast #68–Jeremy Likness and Windows 8
Wednesday (June 27th, 2012)
- Process Lifetime Management (PLM) and Managing State in Windows 8 Metro C# Applications
- RadImageButton: A new control for Windows Phone in Q2 2012
- Creating an IStorageFile out of a Local Resource in WinRT (C#)
- Designing MetroTwit for Windows 8
- Introducing the Photos app for Windows 8
- Binding To Event At Runtime In Windows 8 Metro
- The Big Windows Phone 8 Difference: It's Windows
- Windows 8 XAML Tips - Show a task pane
- Why most of Windows Phone apps that connect with Facebook will stop working on July 5, 2012
- LightSwitch HTML Client Preview Available!
- Best practices when adding single sign-on to your Windows 8 Metro app with the Live SDK
Thursday (June 28th, 2012)
Friday (June 29th, 2012)
- First Look At The LightSwitch HTML Client (Preview Version)
- C# 5–Making INotifyPropertyChanged Easier
- Windows Phone Application Name Matters
- Sharing Data Between LOB Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Part 2
- Seeding your Metro style app with a SQLite database
- XAML binding resources from a separate assembly
- First look at the Windows Phone 8 Marketplace
- Microsoft explains why it killed the Windows 8 Start button
- Does Windows Phone 8 win the iOS6 vs Android 4.1 vs WP8 feature battle?
Enjoy your weekend and return at SilverlightShow on Monday for a whole new week full of exciting news and content!