Free SilverlightShow webinar: Advanced Windows 8 Metro (2-part session)
Presented by: Gill Cleeren
Windows 8 is just around the corner! As developers, we need to be ready to build Metro style applications. In the last couple of months, we got a lot of information already, although most of it covered the basics. It’s time to move beyond that. Therefore, we are doing a two part Advanced Windows 8 Metro webinar.
This webinar picks up where the intro talks (see the recordings of earlier webinars on Windows 8) stopped, so expect coverage of topics you may have seen some content about or even none at all!
Agenda for Part 1 (watch the recorded session):
- Periodic tile updates and push notifications
- Data
- Data binding
- Data controls
- GridView loading on demand
- Semantic Zoom
- OData
- Background downloads
- Accessing services
- Live SDK services
Agenda for Part 2 (watch the recorded session):
- Localization
- Async
- Working with files and local and roaming data
- Building WinRT reusable components
- Background tasks and lock screen apps
- Bag-Of-Tricks
The level for this 2-part webinar session is 300.
Download the slides for part 1 (.ppt/.pptx) | Get the demos for part 1
Download the slides for part 2 (.ppt/.pptx) | Get the demos for part 2
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About the presenter:
Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director (www.theregion.com), MVP ASP.NET, INETA speaker bureau member and Silverlight Insider.
He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Passionate about .NET, he’s always playing with the newest bits. In his role as Regional Director, Gill has given many sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Silverlight, ASP.NET and WPF at conferences including TechDays Belgium, DevDays Netherlands, NDC Norway, SQL Server Saturday Switzerland, Spring Conference UK, etc. He’s also the author of many articles in various developer magazines and organizes the yearly Community Day event in Belgium.
Gill also leads Visug (www.visug.be), the largest .NET user group in Belgium. He recently published his Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook (by 
Packt Publishing). You can find his blog at www.snowball.be.
Gill also delivered the following SilverlightShow webinars:
Contracts and Charms in Windows 8
Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8
Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers
Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 1
Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 2
Introduction to XAML Development on Windows 8
Blend for Silverlight Developers
10 things I'm sure you didn't know about Silverlight 4
Let's MEF: overview of the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4
Silverlight's Power Features: Data Binding in Action
Switch or no switch: Can I build my business apps in LightSwitch?
Switching on the Cloud for Silverlight
Building a Silverlight 4 Application End-to-end
Who is this webinar appropriate for:
Windows 8 developers
Duration:
75 minutes, including Q&A
Technical Requirements:
Internet connection and computer speakers for audio.
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