Recording of Gill Cleeren's Yesterday Webinar: Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8

Watch the recording of the recent webinar by Gill Cleeren: Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8.

Live tiles were introduced with Windows Phone 7 and are one of the most unique user experience elements of the platform. Their success is probably why Microsoft introduced them in Windows 8 Metro apps as well. The concept is the same as in Windows Phone 7, the options are however much more extended. Notifications and push notifications also found their way from Windows Phone into the Metro platform.

In this SilverlightShow webinar, Gill Cleeren explores these exciting features and introduces you further into the world of Windows 8.

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Next Week: Webinar with Brian Noyes 'Prism and WCF RIA Services: Two Great Toolkits that Work Great Together'

Next Wednesday, May 30, at 10 am PST (check your local time) join our next webinar with Brian Noyes: Prism and WCF RIA Services: Two Great Toolkits that Work Great Together.

In this webinar Silverlight MVP Brian Noyes will give a quick overview of what Prism is and what its feature set includes. He'll do a very quick review of what WCF RIA Services does,and will focus on how you can build a Silverlight Prism application and factor your functionality into modules while still making the RIA Services functionality available in multiple modules.

Attendees will find out how to leverage the Repository pattern to pull all the RIA Services client side code into one place, expose the data from a Repository service that you can then pull into any scope in the application that wants to consume it. Full webinar info »

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Featured Article Series: 'Windows 8 and the future of XAML'by Gill Cleeren

Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren has already released 6 parts from the article series on Windows 8 and the future of XAML.

In the parts released so far, Gill does an overview of the Windows 8 platform, introduces WinRT and explains how to use it, covers extensively contracts in WinRT/Windows 8, and also explains how tiles, toasts and badges are used. Read the recently released part 6 of the series »

New SilverlightShow Ebook: Creating SilverlightShow Windows Phone Application

Since the end of February, thanks to Peter Kuhn SilverlightShow has its official Windows Phone app. It allows you to read our news, articles and events, and is completely free (also ad-free!). Some of the features include reminders for upcoming events and webinars, notifications about new content in the form of live tiles, local list of favorites. You can find a quick intro video for the app here, or visit its Marketplace page here.

During the course of developing the application, we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the experiences with the SilverlightShow readers, because it is a nice example of discussing a real-world application, with real-world problems (and solutions :)). The idea of a series of articles and ebook was born, where you will discover both details about the development process as well as some technical challenges faced. Learn more »

Win a Free Pass to SPTechCon Boston (Jul 22-25) in Our Contest

SilverlightShow and SPTechCon - The SharePoint Technology Conference in Boston, Jul 22-25, 2012 are giving one free full conference pass ($1,895 value) to a member of SilverlightShow!

SPTechCon is the largest independent event focused solely on Microsoft’s collaboration and content management platform Sharepoint, taking place in Westin Copley Place Hotel in beautiful downtown Boston. More than 30 top presenters will be on hand to deliver more than 90 workshops and technical classes over the course of four days! Learn more on the event »

How to join the pass giveaway? We've got a very simple challenge put up for you in our challenge portal Deed. The challenge requires you to author a creative image with Sharepoint in it, and upload it in the challenge. The most creative challenge completion gets the pass. Easy!

The challenge expires on June 24th, so hurry up to submit your creatives by then. The free pass winner will be announced on June 25. Read the full rules of the contest »

Good luck!