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Watch a recording of the webinar '10 Best Practices for Windows Phone Developers: Frameworks, Toolkits & Tips' delivered by Samidp Basu on April 4th, 2012.

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Webinar summary: Windows Phone is starting to gain traction, with its innovative user experience and focus on content/people over chrome. As consumer base & Marketplace grows, we developers need to keep the momentum going in churning out more Apps/updates. Also, important is to build up the vendor outlook for individual developers & be answerable to producing quality Apps for our user base.

In this webinar, we draw from our Windows Phone developer experiences and discuss some best practices & tips/tricks of our trade. What are some of the best Frameworks & Toolkits in your arsenal that make Windows Phone development so much fun! Short & simple – 10 Best Practices in an hour, with some easy-to-follow live coding demos/examples & plenty of resources. Attendees should walk away with solid understanding of some Windows Phone development principles in real-world examples and a refresher on all the tools available.

As usual, we had a free ebook giveaway for the attendees and tweeters of this webinar:

• three attendees who submitted valuable feedback in our post-webinar survey won Samidip's Ebook OData & Cloud Augmentation of Windows Phone Applications from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf
• two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won a free ebook Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook or Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook from Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Windows Phone Raw Camera Access' delivered by MCC Peter Kuhn on March 15th, 2012. 

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Webinar summary: Starting with the "Mango" release, developers have programmatic raw access to the cameras on Windows Phone devices. This enables a whole set of new possibilities for application authors, for example to capture video and stills, to perform real-time manipulation of the camera feed, and to create augmented reality scenarios.

In this webinar, we will learn how to access and integrate the camera feed in our applications, work with some of the related features like choosing between the main and front-facing cameras, adjusting focus and using the flash, and see how to access and manipulate raw image data. We will also learn about limitations and potential problems you will run into when you work with raw camera access.

Some small prizes were given in this webinar:

• three free copies of Peter's SilverlightShow ebook 'Getting Ready for The Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599'.
• and 2 free ebooks 'Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook' by Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on February 28th, 2012.

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Webinar summary: With the release of Windows Phone 7 Mango, a lot of extra features were added to the platform. One of the most anticipated ones is the possibility to create code that runs in the background. This way, applications can perform tasks such as polling a service, updating a live tile and much more. It's also possible to create audio agents that allow you to build media players that can play audio without the app on the foreground.

In this webinar, we'll do a deep dive on all options we get to do background processing in WP7 Mango.

See who are the winners of free ebooks from this webinar!

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We are happy to let you know that all SilverlightShow news, articles and events (including webinar news) can now be easily delivered on your Windows Phone! 

SilverlightShow free Windows Phone app is now available on the marketplace (search for 'SilverlightShow') thanks to Peter Kuhn, who developed it and will also release a series of articles in which the whole application design and infrastructure, plus the problems (+ solutions of course) will be discussed and described in detail.

You may now get notified and set reminders for all our upcoming webinars, read all articles and news content straight from your phone, add content items to your favorites list, share content on social networks and much more. Watch this short video on the options included in our SilverlightShow app!

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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Metro & WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 2' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on February 9th, 2012.

With this webinar we continue the extensive coverage of the Metro & WinRT topic. Part 1 of this session was delivered on Feb 2nd, watch recording!

Webinar slides (ppt / pptx) | Demos

Webinar summary: Are you currently building XAML-based applications using Silverlight or WPF? And are you afraid that all you’ve learned in the past is now suddenly obsolete? 

In this webinar we saw how you can transfer your knowledge to the new Metro-way of building applications. We've done this by looking at a working application that contains most of the features you’ve come to love in Silverlight. 

In this webinar you learn that things like data binding, styling, controls and much more can be leveraged to build applications in Windows 8. After watching this webinar recording, you will see that all of a sudden, you are already an experienced Metro app developer! 

Level 250-300

Agenda for Part 2:

1. Styling and templating
2. Data in your Windows 8 apps

• Getting data
• Data binding

3. The Application Lifecycle (Copyright 2010 Windows Phone 7)
4. Tiles and more (Copyright 2010 Windows Phone 7)
5. IO’ing in Metro apps

Some small prizes were given in this webinar:

• Three free copies of Gill Cleeren's ebook 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506'
• and 2 free ebooks 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' by Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks! 

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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Metro & WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 1' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on February 2nd, 2012.

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Webinar summary: Are you currently building XAML-based applications using Silverlight or WPF? And are you afraid that all you’ve learned in the past is now suddenly obsolete? Then you should really attend this webinar and be amazed!

We’ll see how you can transfer your knowledge to the new Metro-way of building applications. We’ll do this by looking at a working application that contains most of the features you’ve come to love in Silverlight. 

You’ll learn that things like data binding, styling, controls and much more can be leveraged to build applications in Windows 8. After this webinar, you will see that all of a sudden, you are already an experienced Metro app developer! A big smile is guaranteed after this talk!

Level 250-300

Agenda for part 1:

1. General XAML stuff for Windows 8
2. Old and new controls
3. Finding your way with navigation

Part 2 of the "Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer" is scheduled for February 9th, 2012, 10 am PDT (see your local time). Sign up now | View agenda

Some small prizes were given in this webinar:

• Three free copies of Gill Cleeren's ebook 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506'
• and 3 free ebooks 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' by Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks! 

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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Leveraging Windows Azure for the Windows Phone Developer' delivered by Samidip Basu on January 4th, 2012.

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Webinar summary:

Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute, storage, networking and content delivery capabilities to host, scale and manage Web applications on the Internet. The Windows Azure platform can be used both by applications running in the cloud and by applications running on local systems. 

Windows Phone 7 is the latest smartphone OS from Microsoft. Built from the ground-up, Windows Phone 7 brings together what you care about most, and brings it to you in an innovative and simple Metro UI interface. You and your content are at the center of it all through the Start screen experience with Live Tiles and integrated Hubs which provide rich & continuous user experience. 

In this webinar, we take a close look at how Azure & Windows Phones could play together; and in general, why cloud support is needed for most well-designed mobile solutions. We discuss techniques on how a Windows Phone developer might consider leveraging Windows Azure for cloud infrastructure needs. Attendees should be able to gain solid understanding & real-world examples on how to use Windows Azure to augment Mobile solutions, specially on Windows Phone.

Agenda:

• Introduction to Cloud Computing & Windows Azure
• Push Notifications for Windows Phone
• Push Notifications from Azure, including deep-linked secondary Live Tiles & Toasts for Windows Phone Mango
• Why consider OData while leveraging the cloud in cross-platform Mobile solutions
• Usage of SQL Azure & OData through Windows Phone
• Usage of Azure-hosted WCF Services for Windows Phone
• How to use Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone

3 of the attendees who left valuable feedback in our post-webinar survey won a free copy of Samidip's ebook 'OData & Cloud Augmentation of Windows Phone Applications'. 

Another 3 who weeted this webinar using tag #webinarsilverlightshow got a free ebook 'Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook' provided by Packt Publishing (read this book's review on SilverlightShow).

See the who are the lucky winners!

More on this topic you can find in the following two articles by Samidip Basu and their associated source code:

• Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data
• Connecting Azure and Windows Phone through OData

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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Unit Testing for Windows Phone' delivered by MCC Peter Kuhn on December 14th, 2011.

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Note (regarding the demos): 

"The BDD sample project uses a custom version of the WindowsPhoneTestFramework.Test.EmuSteps.dll in the Windows Phone Test Framework that understands 'When' steps. The version of the framework that is currently on NuGet does not understand this semantics yet, so if you plan on using that official version, you need to exchange all 'When' steps with 'Then' steps."

Webinar summary: To many, unit testing is a mystery for normal desktop applications already. The concept is not hard to understand and seems great, but writing unit tests for the correct code, and ones that test correctly, requires a lot of experience. Now, unit testing on the phone? Is that really necessary?

In this webinar we're going to talk about possible scenarios of unit testing for Windows Phone. We will also see how to set up your development environment for this, because even when you are willing to and interested in writing unit tests for your mobile application, this is not exactly straight forward, and comes with strings attached and certain limitations.

3 of the attendees who left valuable feedback in our post-webinar survey won a free copy of Peter Kuhn's ebook 'Getting Ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599'. See the winners!

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