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This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development + Blendability" by Braulio Diez on building a sample drag & drop puzzle application in Windows 8.

This video accompanies the article "Windows 8 Development + Blendability" by Braulio Diez on building a sample drag & drop puzzle application in Windows 8.

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Webinar summary: With Metro-style apps, Microsoft is pushing MVVM with a built-in solution in some of the templates. But what if you’re now 100% clear on the concepts of MVVM? Fear no longer! In this session, we’ll explore the MVVM pattern along with its benefits (and let’s be honest, disadvantages as well) from the Windows 8 perspective. Next to the core principles, we’ll dive deep in how we can apply the pattern for Windows 8 app by building an end-to-end app based on the pattern. We’ll be using the excellent MVVM Light toolkit for our discussion.

As usual, we gave away free ebooks for the attendees of this webinar who left valuable feedback in our webinar survey. See who grabbed the ebooks!

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Webinar summary: Windows 8 Metro style apps will give users a great experience. Apps promise the user to be alive and connected. Being connected means interfacing with services and the cloud. But what options do we have to make the connection to the outside world?
In this session, we'll explore how WinRT apps can connect with services (WCF, REST...) and the cloud to offer a great experience. We'll also see how internals like roaming data can be used in your apps.

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 a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf
• one of those who tweeted the webinar won Gill's recently released ebook Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook from Packt Publishing

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Watch recording of Part 1 here »

Webinar summary: 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.

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 2:

• Localization
• Async
• Working with files and local and roaming data 
• Building WinRT reusable components
• Background tasks and lock screen apps
• Bag-Of-Tricks

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 win a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf (there you may also find Gill Cleeren's ebook Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506)
• two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won Gill's ebook Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook from Packt Publishing

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Join part 2 next Wednesday, July 25 at 10 am PST.

Webinar summary: 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.

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:

• Periodic tile updates and push notifications
• Data
  • Data binding
  • Data controls
    • GridView loading on demand
    • Semantic Zoom
  • OData
  • Background downloads
  • Accessing services
    • WCF
    • JSON
  • Live SDK services

We welcome you to join part 2 next Wed, 10 am PST (check your local time), when Gill will talk about localization, async, building WinRT reusable components and more. Sign up for Part 2!

• three attendees who submitted valuable feedback in our post-webinar survey won win a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf (there you may also find Gill Cleeren's ebook Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506)
• two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won Gill's ebook Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook from Packt Publishing

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Watch a recording of the webinar '10 Things Silverlight Developers Should Know About Windows 8' delivered by Silverlight MVP Michael Crump on July 3rd, 2012.

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Webinar summary: In this webinar Silverlight MVP Michael Crump 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.

Agenda:

1. Starting with the Fundamentals
2. Application Lifecycle
3. XML/Code Namespaces
4. Making WebRequest - Async
5. Storage
6. Navigation
7. Controls
8. Animations
9. Freebies
10. Monetizing

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 a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf
• two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won a free ebook from Packt Publishing, choosing between Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook or MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Prism and WCF RIA Services - Two Great Toolkits That Work Great Together' delivered by Silverlight MVP Brian Noyes on May 30th, 2012.

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Webinar summary: 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.

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 a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf
• two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won a free ebook from Packt Publishing, choosing between Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook or MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

See all upcoming and past SilverlightShow Webinars >>

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Webinar summary: 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 new SilverlightShow webinar, Gill Cleeren will explore these exciting features together with you to introduce you further into the world of Windows 8.

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 win a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf
• two authors of tweets using tag #webinarsilverlightshow won Gill's just-released ebook Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook from Packt Publishing

See all upcoming and past SilverlightShow Webinars >>