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Andrea Boschin 's articles
Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Win as one with Share contracts
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Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Writing C# components for the Windows Store apps
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/ posted on May 13, 2013 / rating: 5.00 / visits: 2977
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Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Using Typescript in Windows Store apps
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/ posted on Apr 30, 2013 / rating: 5.00 / visits: 3356
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Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Handling asynchronous operations
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/ posted on Apr 22, 2013 / rating: 5.00 / visits: 1383
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Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Controls to the max
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/ posted on Apr 16, 2013 / rating: 5.00 / visits: 2825
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Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Layout elements into the page.
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/ posted on Apr 08, 2013 / rating: 5.00 / visits: 1671
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Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Understand the projects.
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/ posted on Apr 01, 2013 / rating: 5.00 / visits: 4266
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Use Bing Maps for Windows Store apps
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/ posted on Mar 15, 2013 / rating: 0.00 / visits: 1160
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Keep the GridView under control with style and templates
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Manage network connectivity in Windows Store apps
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Using periodic notification to update the tiles
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Exploring Raw Notifications in Windows Store apps
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Optimize Windows Store application startup with a waiting splash screen
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Handle trial and in-app purchase with Windows Store apps
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Windows 8 Metro: Implementing push notifications (part 2)
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Windows 8 Metro: Implementing push notifications (part 1)
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Windows 8 metro: make your app alive with background tasks
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Windows 8 Metro: Understanding globalization
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Windows 8 Metro: Discovering the Application Bars
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Windows 8 Metro: Badges and Lock screen notifications
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Windows 8 Metro: Using tiles to power up your application
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Windows 8 Metro: Enforce fluidness with animations and transitions
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Windows 8 Metro: Add settings to your application
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Windows 8 Metro: Win as one with search and share contracts
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Windows 8 Metro: Improve GridView and ListView with SemanticZoom and Incremental Loading
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Windows 8 Metro: Dealing with new metro controls
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Windows 8 Metro: Asynchrony made easy
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Windows 8 Metro: Something about application life-cycle
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Windows 8 Metro: Layout, view states and navigation
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Windows 8 Metro: Starting your first App from scratch
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Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind
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Consume JSON with Windows Phone: a seamless solution
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Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets
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Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API
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Windows Phone 7.5 - Use Background agents
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Windows Phone 7.5 - Play with music
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Windows Phone 7.5 - Manipulating camera stream
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Windows Phone 7.5 - Programmatically use the phone camera
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Windows Phone 7.5 - Accessing your phone
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Windows Phone 7.5 - Local SQL Database
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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Connection detection and bandwidth
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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Security
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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Web Services
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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: HttpWebRequest
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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: WebClient
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TIP: Understanding animations and storyboards
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TIP: Transformations explained
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TIP: Routed events in Silverlight
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Increase your trust with signed XAPs
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Threading recipes: the many ways of spawning background works in Silverlight
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ItemsControl from scratch to your own controls
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Understanding the Content Controls in Silverlight
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Windows Phone 7 - Part #8: Using Sensors
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Windows Phone 7 - Part #7: Understanding Push Notifications
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Windows Phone 7 - Part #6: Taking advantage of the phone
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Windows Phone 7 - Part #5: Panorama and Pivot controls
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Windows Phone 7 - Part #4: The application lifecycle
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Windows Phone 7 - Part #3: Understanding navigation
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Windows Phone 7 - Part #2: Your First Application
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Windows Phone 7 - Part #1: Getting Started
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Paging WCF Ria Services entities in Model-View-ViewModel applications
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Understanding control customization with templates: part #2
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Understanding control customization with templates: part #1
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Uploading multiple files with Silverlight
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Implementing network protocol easily with a generic SocketClient
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A RoleManager to apply roles declaratively to user interface
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Writing an AsyncLoader to enqueue long running operations
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A simplified DataForm replacement - Part 2 Adding validation support
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A simplified DataForm replacement - Part 1 Create the control and detect commands
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Make the TreeView control to be MVVM compliant
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Developing applications gets easy with improved DataBinding in Silverlight 4
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Five Silverlight 4.0 features you cannot do without
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A ChildWindow management service for MVVM applications
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