Watch the recording of Gill Cleeren's recent SilverlightShow webinar 'Contracts and Charms in Windows 8'.

In Windows 8 Metro, applications don’t communicate directly with each other. The OS has built-in contracts available out-of-the-box which make it possible that applications interact with each other without knowing each other. This way, one application can expose its own data for others to read. Another contract makes it possible to expose a common search functionality from within an application.

This new way of using these contracts is something that Metro application developers need to learn in order to build a killer application on Windows 8. In this webinar, Gill Cleeren explained the available contracts and how to use them to their limits in your application.

As usual we gave away free ebooks for tweeting the webinar and joining our post-webinar survey.

Watch the recording | Download the slides

Net Thu, May 17, 10 am PST (check your local time) join our next webinar with SilverlightShow appreciated webinar presenter Gill Cleeren - 'Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8'.

Live tiles were introduced with Windows Phone 7 and are one of the most unique user experience elements of the platform. Their success is probably why Microsoft introduced them in Windows 8 Metro apps as well. The concept is the same as in Windows Phone 7, the options are however much more extended. Notifications and push notifications also found their way from Windows Phone into the Metro platform.

In this SilverlightShow webinar, Gill Cleeren will explore these exciting features together with you to introduce you further into the world of Windows 8.

Tweet this webinar using tag #webinarsilverlightshow and win two ebook copies from Gill Cleeren's new book 'Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook' by Packt Publishing! Tweet Now!

Sign up for this webinar | Full webinar info | Recordings of past webinars

On May 30, 10 am PST (check your local time) join our live session dedicated on Prism and WCF RIA Services! In this webinar Silverlight MVP Brian Noyes will give a quick overview of what Prism is and what its feature set includes. He'll do a very quick review of what WCF RIA Services does,and will focus on how you can build a Silverlight Prism application and factor your functionality into modules while still making the RIA Services functionality available in multiple modules.

Attendees will find out how to leverage the Repository pattern to pull all the RIA Services client side code into one place, expose the data from a Repository service that you can then pull into any scope in the application that wants to consume it.

Make sure to also check Brian's SilverlightShow article series: the 10-part series 'WCF RIA Services' and the 4-part series 'Working with Prism 4'.

Sign up for this webinar | Full webinar info | More upcoming webinars

Learn all SilverlightShow webinar news via