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In the last post Phone Gap Tutorial #1 we looked at how to get ready to use phone gap and we created a sample project. In this next tutorial, we are going to look at the files that were created and the differences between this and a standard windows application.

If you look at the files in the solution explorer, you will see some folders and files that are not part of the normal Windows Phone Application.We will only touch on items that differ from a normal application.

Read original post by Laurent Bugnion at GalaSoft

This week I was “on tour” in Belgium and Netherlands and presented 3 times:

“MVVM Applied, From Silverlight to Windows Phone to Windows 8” [...]

The goal of this session was to make people feel confident that the skills they acquired working in various XAML frameworks (Silverlight, Windows Phone, WPF, Surface, etc) are going to help them tremendously when developing Windows 8 applications. It was a session packed with code, where we went from a Silverlight 5 application, added design time experience, reworked the design in Expression Blend, then created an application reusing most of the code in Windows Phone (including design time experience in Blend), and then created a WinRT application which, again, reused most of the code (including design time experience in the Visual Studio Designer). Of course the sample code uses the MVVM Light Toolkit in order to make the coding easier, and to maximize code reuse.

Read original post by Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos at StudentGuru

Here is a tutorial on how to make a GPS Navigation Service for Windows Phone 7 using C#.NET and Bing Maps. You can find the full finished project as part of the ThessalonikiGuide app at http://thessaloniki.codeplex.com or a part of it on SkyDrive at https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=2532866168b5e8c5&resid=2532866168B5E8C5!112&parid=root.

Read original post at Josh Smith's Blog

This blog post describes my experience of learning how to write iOS software, after having spent many years exclusively in the world of .NET development. It provides warnings, suggestions, and tips for others who are interested in learning iOS development. The post ends with a qualitative comparison of programming in WPF and iOS.

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week February 13-19, 2012:

• New Article from the series "Working with Prism 4"
• More Windows Phone Webinars Announced
• New Ebook: WP7 for iPhone and Android Devs
• VSLive! Las Vegas Event: Discount for All SilverlightShow Members
• 50+ fresh new stories by our valued bloggers and community sites

New Article from the series "Working with Prism 4"

This week, Brian Noyes published Part 4 of his "Working with Prism 4" article series for SilverlightShow.

In this article, Brian explains how to leverage the navigation capabilities of Prism in a more loosely coupled and flexible way with the IRegionManager.RequestNavigate method, INavigationAware and IConfirmNavigationRequest interfaces. 

Read the article here:

• Working with Prism 4 Part 4: Region Navigation
  

More Windows Phone Webinars Announced

Peter Kuhn will be delivering two Windows Phone online sessions this spring especially for the members of SilverlightShow: 

• Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar: Windows Phone Raw Camera Access
  
• SilverlightShow Webinar: Advanced MVVM for Windows Phone
  

But first, warm up with Gill Cleeren's "Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers" webinar next week. Join us on February 28th (Tuesday), at 10 am PDT.

New Ebook: WP7 for iPhone and Android Devs

You have a background in ASP.NET, Android, iPhone, or iPad development, and want to get prepared for writing Windows Phone 7 applications? Our new ebook is here to help you:

• Windows Phone 7 for iPhone and Android Developers: Ebook
  

Also, take advantage of our February Ebook Offer: The Top 10 SilverlightShow Article-based Ebooks in One Bundle.

VSLive! Las Vegas Event: Discount for All SilverlightShow Members

If you are planning to attend Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas conference this spring, why not take advantage of the discount the organizers provided especially for SilverlightShow members:

• Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Gives Special Discount for All SilverlightShow Members
  

Or, win a free pass for the event by joining our ongoing contest. See the rules here >>

50+ fresh new stories by our valued bloggers and community sites

Top 5:

• The Gradual Decline in Silverlight Adoption
  
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week February 6-12, 2012
  
• Windows 8's five biggest enemies
  
• Windows 8 is not all about Tablets, it’s about the future
  
• Screenshots of Laurent Bugnion's MVVM Demo at TechDays Belgium
  

All other news we published:

Monday (February 13th, 2012)

• A Case Study for Building Advanced Windows Phone Applications – Code Samples
• WP7 Sample: Use Location Services *and* get Certified!
• Background audio in Windows Phone 7.5 (Part 1)
• Silverlight Video Tutorial: Importing Photoshop Files into Expression Blend
• Get the tilt effect and the click event, everywhere
• Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 13 – Working with Tile Notification in WP7
• Creating A LightSwitch Collection Control Extension
• Silverlight Video Tutorial: Make a Sliding Panel ALL in Blend (NO Code-Behind) with ONE Toggle Button
• Build a Windows Phone Game with the Farseer Physics Engine (Video)
• Uploading an Image to Facebook in Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight)
• How to download and save images in WP7 Media Library

Tuesday (February 14th, 2012)

• HttpRequests using HTTP verbs, headers and cookies in Silverlight
• How and when will enterprise apps be made Windows 8-ready
• Submitting your Windows 8 apps
• The effects of making a WP7 app free, and the numbers to go with it
• All new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango APIs
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 14 Using the Windows Phone App Bar
• WP7 Pulling Rest Data the easy way
• AN ORM would have saved time...
• Unified Ad for Windows Phone - Part 3 - Remote Ad Provider configuration
• LightSwitch Screen Tips: Scrollbars and Splitters

Wednesday (February 15th, 2012)

• Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 15 – Working with Tiles in WP7
• HTML5 and CSS3 on Windows Phone: Simple Geolocation
• Forced Landscape Printing in Silverlight (On a Mac)
• Unified Ad for Windows Phone - Part 4 - GenericAdProviderForXaml
• WP7 Sample: A Microphone-enabled Phone App in 5 Minutes!
• Building a Windows 8 Metro App, Part 3: Putting it Together
• Let your Windows Phone apps sell themselves
• Enabling accessibility in Windows 8
• The Azure Custom Claim Provider for SharePoint Project Part 2

Thursday (February 16th, 2012)

• Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure
• Scheduling Notification in Windows Phone – Reminders
• “Open” for business: Using OData in Windows Phone apps
• Byte Array To BitmapImage Converter For Windows Phone Silverlight
• Using RestSharp with AgFx in your Windows Phone app
• Windows Phone Performance–Part 1 of many
• WP7 Sample: An Accelerator-based App in 5 Minutes
• 50+ Windows Phone App Ideas
• The “From zero to Knowing MVVM” video

Friday (February 17th, 2012)

• WP7 PhoneGap Appointments PlugIn
• Optimizing C# for XAML Platforms
• Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012
• How one dev used 90% of his Windows Phone code to port a game to Windows 8
• App differentiation on WP7
• Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days, #17 – Working with Choosers
• The first 10 Minutes of a C# Developer Exploring a Metro Application using C++
• Asynchronous UI development in WinRT, Silverlight, Windows Phone & WPF with async/await keywords of C# 5.0
• Phone Gap Tutorial #1- Getting Started
• Reliable Theming: Plan for colors

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

Here is the new SilverlightShow content for Friday, February 17th, 2012.

• New SilverlightShow Ebook "WP7 for iPhone and Android Devs"
• WP7 PhoneGap Appointments PlugIn
• Optimizing C# for XAML Platforms
• Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012
• How one dev used 90% of his Windows Phone code to port a game to Windows 8
• App differentiation on WP7
• Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days, #17 – Working with Choosers
• The first 10 Minutes of a C# Developer Exploring a Metro Application using C++
• Asynchronous UI development in WinRT, Silverlight, Windows Phone & WPF with async/await keywords of C# 5.0
• Phone Gap Tutorial #1- Getting Started
• Reliable Theming: Plan for colors

Missed yesterday's news digest? Check it out here!

We are pleased to announce the release of another SilverlightShow ebook: Windows Phone 7 for iPhone and Android Developers.

The ultimate goal of this ebook is to prepare you for writing Windows Phone 7 applications, whether your background is in ASP.NET, Android, iPhone, or iPad development.

Kevin Hoffman, a Systems Architect for Oakleaf Waste Management and author of multiple books including WP7 for iPhone Developers, will help you learn how to write code in C#, study basic and advanced UI techniques, push notifications, going from MVC to MVVM, utilizing device hardware like cameras and even FM radios. See Contents >>

This ebook is based on SilverlightShow article series 'Windows Phone 7 for iPhone and Android Developers'.

The series still has 2 more parts coming up, so note that updated copy will be sent to all customers within 1 business day from new chapters release.

Get this ebook | Visit SilverlightShow Ebook Market

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Read original post by Jean-Claude Trachsel at Tipps, Tricks and Tracks Blog

I'm involved in a project that needs a web frontend and clients for iPhone, Androide and of course Windows Phone. Using a framework like PhoneGap is definitly a good point to start. In a later post I will write about how this all ended up. In this post I will focus on one of my first tasks, building a PhoneGap PlugIn that reads the calendar appointments.

Read original post by Georgi Atanasov and Tsvyatko Konov at MSDN Magazine

When working with the C# development language, individual developers often find a process that works for them and stick to it. After all, if the code passes all our tests, we can ship it, right? Well, no. Releasing products in today’s complex programming landscape isn’t that simple. We think developers need to revisit some of the standard decisions we make about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) concepts such as dependency properties, LINQ and the layout system. When we examine these aspects from a performance perspective, various approaches can prove questionable.