End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (6/8/2012)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week June 4 - 10, 2012:

• New SilverlightShow article: 'Windows 8 Metro: Asynchrony made easy'
• New Part 6 from Kevin Dockx's Article Series on Strategies for Code Reuse: A Windows Phone Client
• Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for May, 2012
• New SilverlightShow Webinar: 10 Things Silverlight Devs Should Know About Windows 8
• 50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

New SilverlightShow article: 'Windows 8 Metro: Asynchrony made easy'

This week we published the 5th part of Andrea Boschin's Windows 8 Metro Series on SilverlightShow:

• Windows 8 Metro: Asynchrony made easy

Also from this series: Create your apps with simplicity in mind | Starting your first App from scratch | Layout, view states and navigation | Something about application life-cycle

New Part 6 from Kevin Dockx's Article Series on Strategies for Code Reuse: A Windows Phone Client

We also released the next part of the series "Developing for a multitude of clients" in which Kevin Dockx discusses strategies for designing your application for a multitude of different clients. Read it here:

• Part 6: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check.

In this part, Kevin looks into what can be reused from the existing code base when creating a Windows Phone client.

Missed the previous parts? Catch up here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5.

Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for May, 2012

Another beautiful spring month is behind our backs, and it's time to check out which are the best-selling SilverlightShow ebooks for the past 4 weeks:

• Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for May, 2012

All stats are based on the estimated number of copies sold of each ebook.

New SilverlightShow Webinar: 10 Things Silverlight Devs Should Know About Windows 8

Join us on July 3rd at 10 am PST (see your local time) for another exciting SilverlightShow webinar with Silverlight MVP Michael Crump:

• 10 Things Silverlight Developers Should Know About Windows 8

In this session, Michael will look at how Silverlight developers skills translate over to WinRT. He will dive straight into 10 things that he has discovered while working with WinRT. You will quickly find out just how much you will need to learn to work with this new platform. Sign up for free here »

50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Silverlight Metro Info Tile
• Linux Silverlight Plugin Moonlight ‘Abandoned’
  
• A vision of Windows Phone 8 and how Microsoft could enhance the platform
  
• Microsoft promises a sneak peek into the future of Windows Phone on June 20th
  
• Windows 8 in the Enterprise
  

All other news we published:

Monday (June 4th, 2012)

• OData and LightSwitch Book Excerpt - Chapter 1: What Is This Book About?
• Capturing Transport Data Between Visual Studio and Windows Phone
• Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework for Windows 8 Release Preview
• Windows 8 Release Preview: Frequently asked questions
• Creating an Intellisense Compatible Enum-Based Dependency Property
• Windows Phone - RichTextBox
• Web browsing in Windows 8 Release Preview with IE10
• Bridging the PhoneGap
• MVVMLight V4 for Windows 8 RP is available
• Binding to a ConverterParameter in Windows 8 Metro
• Behind the Scenes: A Windows Phone Feed-Reader App

Tuesday (June 5th, 2012)

• Windows Phone - Consume JSON Service
• The Truth About Background Tasks
• Download Windows 8 Release Preview (All Languages, ISO/Offline/Standalone Installer)
• Enabling User-Updated Live Tiles in Windows 8
• Upgrade Metro App From Beta To RC
• Roaming Options for User Settings in Windows Phone Applications
• Designing Metro style: Being the Best on Windows 8

Wednesday (June 6th, 2012)

• A gesture-driven Windows Phone to-do application
• Running two emulators can help to design and debug
• Facebook authentication from Windows Phone app
• How to Use SQLite in C# Metro Style App (Video)
• Windows 8: The Animated Pie Slice
• Throttling Immediate TextBox Binding Behavior for Windows Phone
• Microsoft’s Windows 8 Battle Is Everyone’s War
• W8WIL #2: Declaratively Specifying an ItemTemplate in a Fragment
• Comparison: Ubuntu 12.04 vs Windows 8 [Review]
• Windows Phone Marketplace hits 100,000 applications, 313 new apps added daily

Thursday (June 7th, 2012)

• Who are the winners of Packt ebooks in our Twitter giveaway?
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 28 - June 3, 2012
• [Windows 8] How to create an awaitable component?
• Upgrading the BUILD PC to Windows 8 Release Preview
• Premiere of Telerik RadControls for Metro at TechEd’12 – the First Commercial Library for Windows 8
• Your Metro-style app needs protection and here is why
• Connecting with IPv6 in Windows 8
• Generic Bing maps pushpin clustering component for Windows Phone 7
• TechEd 2012– Silverlight MVP Michael Crump Shares Excitement
• What’s Wrong With Windows Phone?
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup – May 2012
• Detecting your Windows 8 app is running in the background

Friday (June 8th, 2012)

• Visual Studio LightSwitch - Sample Menu
• Slides and demos from Gill Cleeren's 2 NDC 2012 talks
• pubCenter Expanding Internationally and Revenue Fund Transfer Opportunity
• Windows 8 HTML5 Metro Style App: How to create a small RSS reader in 30min (part 1/2)
• Share photos on Facebook from Windows Phone app
• Nvidia wants in on Windows Phone, too
• MSDN Webcast Series - Building Windows 8 Metro Style Apps
• Windows 8 XAML in Action: Here Comes the MEAP! (and limited time 40% discount code)
• Creating custom fonts (with outline) for WP7 and XNA

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