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Read original post at Jeff Wilcox's Blog

I run a compute-intensive set of cloud operations for my users to let them see their points through a live tile generated in the cloud. I send toast notifications when your friends are nearby you. And these operations all build on top of mostly polling-based work I perform, as well as some real-time data I receive. As my push user base has grown into the 5- and 6- figures of users, I’ve found that my most appreciative users who love my app should be where I dedicate my cloud resources, as opposed to very rare users.

Read original post at Kristof Degrave's Blog

While the library is still under development, I want to take some time to explain how you can use this framework, and show how easy it gets to work with the Indexed DB. As mentioned before, the library is based on the on the Promises context. This way we can easily handle all the async callbacks on which the Indexed DB API is based, and provide a uniform object to the developer for handling the results and/or errors. And by using the progress callback, we can provide returning multiple records one by one instead of a whole collection in the complete callback.

Read original post at Anthony Baker's Blog

It turns out that you can get into a situation where you can’t install an application on the current Windows 8 Consumer Preview from the Windows Store even if you can’t find that application anywhere in your Windows start screen. According to the UK MSDN Team, this can happen when an application is not uninstalled properly for some reason. What happens then is that when trying to install the app again, the OS finds records of the app being installed already so it doesn’t allows you to install it again.

Read original post at Joe Mayo's Blog

Over the last several months, I’ve been modifying LINQ to Twitter to support multiple platforms. Originally, I had targeted full profile .NET, ASP.NET Web Forms, and ASP.NET MVC apps. An easy stop along the way was Mono compatibility, but that was simple because Mono is good about running any CLR app. The code-base was good until I started porting to Silverlight.

Read original post by Jeremy Likness at C#er : IMage

Almost any software application today will likely contain a long-running process. “Long-running” may be a relative term but in the Windows Runtime it is specifically anything that could take longer than 50ms to execute. That’s a fairly small window, and it means those operations will need to run concurrently to the main application thread. Concurrency is important in both client applications (to keep from blocking the UI) and server applications (to accommodate multiple simultaneous requests).

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week May 7-13, 2012:

• New Article: 'Windows 8 Metro - Layout, view states and navigation'
• New Webinar Announced: Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world
• Interview with Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx on Their New Silverlight 5 Book
• 50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

New Article: 'Windows 8 Metro - Layout, view states and navigation'

This week we published the third part of Andrea Boschin's article series on Windows 8 Metro: 

• Windows 8 Metro: Layout, view states and navigation

In the next article Andrea will go depth in the lifetime matter to understand suspension and how to handle this important task. Stay tuned!

New Webinar Announced: Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world

On July 31st, Gill Cleeren is going to deliver another very informative Windows 8 webinar:

• Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world: connecting with services and integrating the cloud

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. Reserve your spot for this live session now!

Interview with Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx on Their New Silverlight 5 Book

Read our interview with Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx on their just-released Silverlight 5 Cookbook by Packt Publishing:

• Interview with Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx on their new book 'Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook' (by Packt Publishing)

NOTE: By May 31st you can purchase the Silverlight 5 Cookbook with 20% discount, and the ebook version - with 30% discount. The same discounts are also available for all Microsoft e/books by  Packt Publishing. Learn more on this offer here!

Gill and Kevin are also authors of some of SilverlightShow best-selling ebooks, including 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506' and 'Silverlight WCF RIA Services: Strategies for handling your Domain Context'. See all SilverlightShow ebooks »

50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Security Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2636927)
  
• Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Windows 8: Five points of comparison
  
• Nokia Lumia new app partnerships announced
  
• Arturo Toledo: "Thank You Microsoft!"
  
• A XAML Guy digs into ASP.NET MVC4 (Part 2 of ?)
  

All other news we published:

Monday (May 7th, 2012)

• Using Reactive Extensions to smooth compass data in Windows Phone
• How to Play with MarketPlace Detail Task in Windows Phone
• JSON deserialization with JSON.net: caching results
• [WP7] IsolatedStorageException when opening a file played by a MediaElement
• Visual Studio LightSwitch and Windows Phone 7 OData Full CRUD Example
• Porting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Background agents (11 of 12)
• Learn about RadPhoneApplicationFrame for Page Animations using the Telerik Controls for WP7
• Windows Phone Apps - Code, But Don't Hardcode
• Why there won’t be a WinRT version of Catel…
• LocationServices for Windows Phone: example of an application using parts of the framework
• Using FX effects in your managed metro apps

Tuesday (May 8th, 2012)

• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week April 30 - May 6, 2012
• Create A Moving Background In A XNA Game on Windows Phone
• Databinding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro style Apps
• Windows 8 Feature Focus: Charms
• Adding Touch support to a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML and JavaScript
• Install Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 on Windows Server 8
• Silverlight Double Animation Helper
• How to block the LockScreen in your WP7 app
• Why cheaper Xbox Live games are bad for Windows Phone
• One Bitmap to Rule Them All - WriteableBitmapEx for WinRT Metro Style

Wednesday (May 9th, 2012)

• Windows 8 demo-Toast notifications
• [Windows 8] How to rescale an image in a Background task?
• Windows Phone Developers Can Start Prepping for Windows 8
• Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Looking back–what would we do differently (12 of 12)
• Creating updatable Live Tiles from A to Z (part 1)
• Windows Phone 7 Sockets: TcpClient – Making Windows Phone Sockets Easy

Thursday (May 10th, 2012)

• Our webinar newsletter for May is now online
• How to Add Images and Text to your LightSwitch Applications
• Windows 8 CHKDSK Utility is now Smarter than ever
• How to get your Windows 8 app into the Windows Store
• Nokia Lumia Selling Out, Company 'Working Hard' on Verizon
• Windows Phone: Clearing temporary cache files - CacheClearer
• Windows Phone: Turnstile Transition
• Part 89 - Windows Phone - ApplicationBar Color
• Storing Windows Phone User Settings
• Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC

Friday (May 11th, 2012)

• Diagnosing JavaScript Errors Faster with Error.stack on Windows 8
• Trending Windows 8 forum topics: Answering your questions
• Memory Profiling - The Heap Summary View
• Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1
• Get your Windows 8 App into the Windows Store
• Prevent Ugly Images on Windows Phone
• Mozilla: Windows 8 a ‘Return to the Digital Dark Ages’
• Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action
• Designing XAML-based Metro style apps with Visual Studio and Blend
• MSDN Webcast series on building Metro style apps

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, May 11th, 2012:

• Diagnosing JavaScript Errors Faster with Error.stack on Windows 8
• Trending Windows 8 forum topics: Answering your questions
• Memory Profiling - The Heap Summary View
• Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1
• Get your Windows 8 App into the Windows Store
• Prevent Ugly Images on Windows Phone
• Mozilla: Windows 8 a ‘Return to the Digital Dark Ages’
• Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action
• Designing XAML-based Metro style apps with Visual Studio and Blend
• MSDN Webcast series on building Metro style apps

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Read original post by Rob Paveza at IEBlog

IE10 in Windows 8 Consumer Preview includes support for Error.stack, which enables Web developers to diagnose and correct bugs faster, especially those that are difficult to reproduce. Developers can build amazing apps with the capabilities of Web platforms that power today’s modern browsers. In Windows 8, we expose that power through both Internet Explorer 10 and Metro style apps in JavaScript. The increasing power and complexity of these apps means developers need better tools like Error.stack for handling errors and diagnosing bugs.

Read original post by Aaron Wroblewski at Windows 8 App Developer Blog

When learning a new development platform I always find some hurdles getting my app working just the way I want it to. Like me, many of you have used our forums to get answers to the issues you run into. For this post we selected some of the most popular forum topics to highlight and provide more resources to help keep you coding. App settings and data, applying consistent colors and styles, designing for multiple languages and cultures, and Animating Metro style controls were all highly posted, viewed and replied topics.