End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/5/2012)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week October 1 - 7, 2012

• Win a free pass for Visual Studio Live! Orlando Conference in a SilverlightShow challenge!
• Part 4 of Gill Cleeren's Series on building connected Windows 8 apps: Tile interactions in Win8
• Slides for the Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar "MVVM in Windows 8"
• 40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Win a free pass for Visual Studio Live! Orlando Conference in a SilverlightShow challenge!

SilverlightShow and Live! 360 will be sending one lucky SilverlightShow member to Visual Studio Live! Orlando conference, taking place at Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando, December 10-14, 2012!

One of you will get a free 5-Day Package pass ($2,095 value) for this event in a simple contest! Note that this pass gives you access to 3 more co-located events.

How to get the pass?

Join SilverlightShow challenge "Headlines from the future" in the challenge portal Deed by posting your craziest idea on how development technologies will change in the future.

Submit your headline now »

Challenge completions accepted till November 12th, 2012.

Read the full rules of the contest »

What is  Visual Studio Live! Orlando? 

It's a 5-Day Event that brings developers, software architects, programmers and designers together to learn from industry experts and Microsoft insiders! Attend 60+ sessions and full-day workshops on Mobile, Visual Studio / .NET, Web / HTML5, Windows 8 / WinRT, WPF / Silverlight and more.  Learn more on the event »

The new thing in this year's event is that it is co-located in sunny Orlando with Cloud & Virtualization Live! and two more events - SharePoint Live! and SQL Server Live! .

Part 4 of Gill Cleeren's Series on building connected Windows 8 apps: Tile interactions in Win8

Gill Cleeren recently started a new Windows 8 article series in which he's discussing the options you have to connect your Windows 8 apps to services.

The 4th part from the series was published this week, read it here:

• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services Part 4: Tile interactions in Windows 8

Also check out the previous articles from this series:

• Part 1: Using services to get data in our Windows 8 applications
• Part 2: Working with REST, oData and RSS from Windows 8 applications
• Part 3: Background transfers in Windows 8

Slides for the Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar "MVVM in Windows 8"

In this session, Gill Cleeren will explore the MVVM pattern along with its benefits and disadvantages from the Windows 8 perspective.

To get a clue on what else will be covered in this live session, we've made the webinar slides publicly available:

Download the slides (.ppt/.pptx)

40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Blend confusion. Which Blend for WPF, SL4, SL5 and Windows Store Apps?
  
• Microsoft does indeed have their own Windows Phone in the works
  
• Windows 8 – Toast Notification
  
• Creating a Direct2D game for WinRT
  
• Five Things to Know When Designing a Windows 8 App

All other news we published:

Monday (October 1st, 2012)

• Different ways to close Windows 8 Modern Apps
• Windows 8 Corrupt Packages
• Windows Store Part 9 - Styling of ListView
• Disable Charms Bar and Switcher in Windows 8
• Repairing the Windows Phone 7 behavior to show an image background for a search string
• C++ Runtime for Windows 8 Store apps
• The Windows Phone Dev Center gets new translation feature
• Getting Started Building Windows 8 Store Apps with XAML/C#

Tuesday (October 2nd, 2012)

• Downloading files in Windows 8 apps using Background Transfer feature
• Windows 8: Using WinRT APIs in Desktop Apps
• How to create a Alchemy game for Windows 8
• Animating item selection in a WP7 application
• How to create an infinite scrollable list for Windows Phone with LongListSelector
• Windows Store Part 10 - Styling of FlipView
• Using OAuth 2 in WinRT using C#: it has never been easier before

Wednesday (October 3rd, 2012)

• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for September 24 - 30, 2012
• Packt’s 1000th book celebration. Get a free ebook of choice till Friday!
• Capturing photos in your Windows 8 application
• Developing for Windows 8 in 1/2 the Time (Part 8): Using Media Queries to Manage Your Layouts
• How to Build a Picture Gallery app for Windows Phone - Part 3
• WinRT app guide: Adding a lightweight database (SQLite) and CRUD support + two-way element binding
• Using WinJS & WinRT to build a fun HTML5 Camera Application for Windows 8 (4/4)
• Windows 8 Review, Part 3: The New Metro Platform

Thursday (October 4th, 2012)

• Smart little helper to clean HTML based strings for Windows Phone
• Async and RestSharp for Windows Phone 7
• Simple AES (Symmetric Key) Encryption in WinRT
• A WinRT behavior to start a storyboard on an event
• Why Microsoft developers need to unionize
• Windows Store app development: Include that privacy policy
• Windows Phone Collision Detection #Part 2
• Bing Maps SDKs for Windows Store Apps Now Available
• Rotating Elements in XAML While Maintaining Proper Flow

Friday (October 5th, 2012)

• Multilingual App Toolkit for developing Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012
• Tips on designing a great Windows Phone app
• Updating our built-in apps for Windows 8
• Windows 8 will be available to people in ***21 Days***
• Windows 8 – quick XAML parsing tip: mind the order of your property bindings!
• I’m Building a Windows 8 App
• WinRT: Regional Settings Misbehave?
• Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 8 launch on October 29 in San Francisco
• Working with Tile Notifications in Windows 8 Store Apps – Part I
• Musings on WCF RIA Services #1: The DomainDataSource
• File system change notifications in WinRT

Enjoy your weekend and return at SilverlightShow on Monday for a whole new week full of exciting news and content!