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Join the biggest edition of Community Day in Belgium so far! The event is FREE and will take place on June 21st 2012 in Utopolis Mechelen.

17 user groups will outperform themselves to bring you their view on Microsoft products in 40+ sessions (6 tracks!). There will also be a full track committed entirely to Windows 8, so don't miss it.

SilverlightShow author and webinar presenter Gill Cleeren is among the organizers of the event, so in case of questions or requests you can contact him using the contact information on his blog or his twitter account @GillCleeren.

All live attendees of Community Day Belgium will have the chance to win a SilverlightShow T-shirt or ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Market through a special challenge. The little game will be run on DEED (www.ideedit.com) - a new portal created by SilverlightShow team for communicating through challenges. Watch Deed's video!

Stay tuned for more information via @ComDayBe and/or @SilverlightShow.

In a current challenge running on DEED you can win a pass ($1,895 value) for  The SharePoint Technology Conference in Boston. Learn more »

Read original post at Jerry Nixon's Blog

Metro applications are different. Metro development is different. Desktop development is still present, of course. Desktop development is still powerful, of course. However, here are my (personal) top 10 reasons why Windows Metro development smokes Windows Desktop development [...]

Read original post by Laurent Bugnion at GalaSoft

If you used the latest MVVM Light version for Windows 8, you may have noticed that a couple of issues cause your app to fail the Windows App Certification Kit. It is really quite simple: By mistake, I published the debug version of the assemblies instead of the release version. This causes the certification to fail.

Read original post by Sebastien Lachance at .NET App Blog

When I first read the excellent book 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps by Adam Nathan, I was surprised to learn that if you create a “Windows Phone Application” or a “Windows Phone Pivot Application” in Visual Studio, the application title is not displayed as it is the built-in metro applications of the Windows Phone OS.

Read original post at Stephen Walther's Blog

The goal of this blog entry is to explain how you can create a simple master/detail view by using the WinJS ListView and Template controls. In particular, I explain how you can use a ListView control to display a list of movies and how you can use a Template control to display the details of the selected movie.

Watch this interview of Larry Lieberman with Nikola Mihaylov at Channel 9

Today we talked to Nikola Mihaylov, a developer in the Expression Blend team. Nikola is the developer of Fantasia Painter, an extremely highly ranked photo editing app for Windows Phone.

Nikola walked us through his app, and talked a bit about how he implemented various aspects of the app. He describes himself as 'obsessed with performance,' and had a few very interesting practices to share in that regard.

Read original post at Nokia

This article show how to create a streaming MP3 music player in Windows Phone 7. All the music files are stored in the server and are streamed to Windows Phone. Application first loads all the albums data from server with JSON data. In server side there are PHP script which loads ID3 tags from all the MP3 files and generates JSON string, which is returned to Windows Phone. After that application deserializes JSON string to dynamic objects and the albums data is displayed in the Panorama page (image 3). Selected album songs will be displayed in the new Songs Page (image 5).

Read original post by Jeremy Alles at The Code Project

Today I woke up and took a look outside: the weather was so awful I decided to so something cool, at home. Today, I ported a Silverlight Windows Phone 7 game to WinRT in 9 hours. In this post, I share the “journal” I wrote will porting the app so that you can follow this process with many detail. I hope you will learn interesting stuff. Warning: the post is much longer than usual [...]

Read original post by Justin Cooperman at Windows 8 App Developer Blog

App launch is a principal part of the fast and fluid Windows 8 experience, so it’s important that you prioritize your app’s launch UX. A highly-polished launch flow is sure to improve the initial reception of any app. In this post, I’ll discuss how to craft a well-designed, responsive app launch experience and explain why app launch is a critical time to make a positive impression on users. I’ll introduce four app launch design patterns that can be applied to your apps and point out some key things to keep in mind as you continue building Metro style apps.