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Read original post by Jeremy Foster at Codefoster

When you’re learning a new platform or development stack or seeing something for the first time, it’s an exercise in concept building. If you don’t get the concepts down then you may as well be a monkey walking through steps. And sometimes when you start with a project template, so much has been done for you that grasping concepts involves separating what is fundamental to the technology and what has been done for you by the tooling.

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week June 25 - 29, 2012:

• New Part 6 from Andrea Boschin's Windows 8 Series: Dealing with new metro controls
• Gill Cleeren's Webinar 'Win8 Metro apps & the outside world' Rescheduled for August 15th
• Interview with Scott Golightly on his Windows Phone Sessions at Visual Studio Live!Redmond
• Complete Our Short Survey & Win a Pass for Visual Studio Live! Redmond Event
• 50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

New Part 6 from Andrea Boschin's Windows 8 Series: Dealing with new metro controls

In the beginning of the week, we published the next part of Andrea Boschin's Windows 8 Metro Series. Read it here:

• Windows 8 Metro: Dealing with new metro controls
  

Missed the previous parts? Catch up here: Part 1 - Create your apps with simplicity in mind | Part 2 - Starting your first App from scratch | Part 3 - Layout, view states and navigation | Part 4 - Something about application life-cycle | Part 5 - Asynchrony made easy

Gill Cleeren's Webinar 'Win8 Metro apps & the outside world' Rescheduled for August 15th

Our upcoming webinar 'Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world' is postponed for August 15th (the initially announced date was July 31st) due to some changes in the schedule of our webinar presenter Gill Cleeren. Read more here:

• SilverlightShow Webinar 'Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world' Rescheduled for August 15th

But before that, join next week's SilverlightShow webinar with presenter Michael Crump: '10 Things Silverlight Developers Should Know About Windows 8'. Date & time: July 3rd at 10 am PST (your local time). Sign up now »

Interview with Scott Golightly on his Windows Phone Sessions at Visual Studio Live!Redmond

As a Social Media Premiere Partner for Visual Stuido Live! Redmond conference, our aim is to provide some exclusive behind-the-curtains information for this great 5-day event.

And what better way to do this than to speak to the very source. Read SilverlightShow interview with Scott Golightly who will be presenting 2 Windows Phone sessions at the conference:

• SilverlightShow Interview with Scott Golightly - Presenter at 2 Windows Phone sessions at Visual Studio Live!Redmond 5-day Conference

Complete Our Short Survey & Win a Pass for Visual Studio Live! Redmond Event

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• A New Option to Join SilverlightShow Contest & Win a Pass for Visual Studio Live! Redmond Event: Complete Our Short Survey

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50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie on what has happened to Silverlight
  
• 10 *MORE* Things you Probably Didn’t know about Windows 8
  
• What’s For Developers in Windows Phone 8?
  
• Windows 8 Apps – Keeping it Simple
  
• Silverlight Debug Helper for Visual Studio 2012 RC
  

All other news we published:

Monday (June 25th, 2012)

• Working With Live Tiles in Windows 8 Metro App - Part 1
• Weekly Thai Recipe! for Windows Phone
• Windows Phone 7 App Hub VS Windows 8 Dashboard
• Developing a Windows 8 Metro App Part 4: My “Reveal a Picture” Algorithm and Basic Code
• Mapping and Location in Windows Phone
• Windows 8 Metro App: Error during App Packaging
• Developer Guidance for Web Sites with Flash Content in Windows 8
• First Look to Telerik RadControls for Win8 Metro
• 57% Of Mobile Developers Plan To Adopt Windows Phone
• Smooth splash screen transition for Windows Phone panorama apps
• Will new features make Windows Phone 8 more user and developer friendly?

Tuesday (June 26th, 2012)

• How to market Windows Phone games
• How To: Bing Maps Custom Tile Overlay - Google Maps
• VIDEO: Hands on with Windows Phone 7.8’s amazing new Start Screen
• Share Contract through MVVM in Windows 8
• Windows 8: Advanced Live Tiles, Part 2
• WP7 Database Support – The Quick and Dirty Intro
• Yet Another Podcast #68–Jeremy Likness and Windows 8

Wednesday (June 27th, 2012)

• Process Lifetime Management (PLM) and Managing State in Windows 8 Metro C# Applications
• RadImageButton: A new control for Windows Phone in Q2 2012
• Creating an IStorageFile out of a Local Resource in WinRT (C#)
• Designing MetroTwit for Windows 8
• Introducing the Photos app for Windows 8
• Binding To Event At Runtime In Windows 8 Metro
• The Big Windows Phone 8 Difference: It's Windows
• Windows 8 XAML Tips - Show a task pane
• Why most of Windows Phone apps that connect with Facebook will stop working on July 5, 2012
• LightSwitch HTML Client Preview Available!
• Best practices when adding single sign-on to your Windows 8 Metro app with the Live SDK

Thursday (June 28th, 2012)

• Improving your Windows 8 Apps with Quality reports
• Debug and run Windows 8 Metro style JavaScript apps
• Badge Notifications in Windows 8
• Which Looks Better? A Comparison Between Popular Apps on Android and Windows Phone
• Sharing Data Between LOB Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Part 1
• Introducing the Blend Class Attribute Editor for HTML
• Flyout control in XAML through Callisto for Windows 8
• XAMLflix Tutorial: RadBulletGraph For Silverlight and WPF
• A gesture-driven Windows Phone to-do application Part Two – drag re-ordering
• Creating Modularity with WPF, Prism and Unity

Friday (June 29th, 2012)

• First Look At The LightSwitch HTML Client (Preview Version)
• C# 5–Making INotifyPropertyChanged Easier
• Windows Phone Application Name Matters
• Sharing Data Between LOB Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Part 2
• Seeding your Metro style app with a SQLite database
• XAML binding resources from a separate assembly
• First look at the Windows Phone 8 Marketplace
• Microsoft explains why it killed the Windows 8 Start button
• Does Windows Phone 8 win the iOS6 vs Android 4.1 vs WP8 feature battle?

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, June 29th, 2012:

• A New Option to Join SilverlightShow Contest & Win a Pass for Visual Studio Live! Redmond Event: Complete Our Short Survey
• First Look At The LightSwitch HTML Client (Preview Version)
• C# 5–Making INotifyPropertyChanged Easier
• Windows Phone Application Name Matters
• Sharing Data Between LOB Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Part 2
• Seeding your Metro style app with a SQLite database
• XAML binding resources from a separate assembly
• First look at the Windows Phone 8 Marketplace
• Microsoft explains why it killed the Windows 8 Start button
• Does Windows Phone 8 win the iOS6 vs Android 4.1 vs WP8 feature battle?

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Read original post at Jesse Liberty's Blog

There are times when I think my friends in the C# team are just listening to me gripe before adding a cool new feature that solves the problem. (I have never quite outgrown the assumption that the world revolves around me).


A couple years ago I grew really tired of having to create the same old same old when it came to public properties [...]

Read original post by Sebastien Lachance at .NET App Blog

If you are developing an application for your company with a brand name or if you are developing the next Angry Bird game with a cool new name, this post is not for you.

However, if you are concocting a generic application like a calculator, a converter, a task manager, you might want continuing to read this post.

Read original post at Ahmed El-Ramly's Blog

In my last post, I started looking into how one could share data between Metro Style Apps that were more complex than the typical URLs, bitmaps, text and files. I went in to an example of sharing a Person object based on http://schema.org/Person and having one app share data about a selected person for another app to consume. Today, I will go into showing how that other app will consume that complex data format.

At the end of my last post on data sharing, I showed how the user chose to share data on a Person yet there were no apps on the system that could accept a share type of http://schema.org/Person. Let’s walk through creating an app that can accept that share type.

Read original post at Tim Heuer's Blog

It looks like people are really glad about being able to use SQLite within their Metro style apps.  I had written two previous posts (Using SQLite in your Metro style app and HOWTO: Build and include SQLite) about this topic.  I’m pleased to report that since those posts the SQLite team released a build (3.7.13 as of the datestamp on this post) which also provides the binary (32- and 64-bit versions) pre-compiled for you for inclusion in your Metro style app.  You can get them from the SQLite download page.

I’ve received a few comments/questions that I thought I might clarify in my own opinion (and some facts) about using SQLite in your app.

Read original post at Bart Lannoeye's Blog

Following the session that Glenn (twitter) and I presented at Community Day 2012 as members of the Belgian Windows Phone User Group, we’re writing a couple of posts explaining the topics and showing some code.

In this post we’re handling the use of resources in your Windows 8 Metro application. As your Windows 8 application can be made available word-wide through the marketplace, there’s no discussion that you should localize the app to target this global market.

Read original post by Todd Brix at The Windows Phone Developer Blog

As we announced last week, with Windows Phone 8 we’re dramatically expanding our footprint around the globe. Consumers will be able to browse and download apps in more than 180 countries at launch—roughly three times the 63 markets served today. Developers, meanwhile, will be able to submit apps to those same markets via App Hub, up from 38 markets.

What we haven’t shown yet is the exact list of those markets—and today I’m happy to share it (see below). Keep in mind that it’s still early, and there’s always the possibility a few names could change between now and Windows Phone 8’s official launch.