End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/7/2012)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week December 3 - 9, 2012:

• Xmas Offer: A Bundle of 6 SilverlightShow Ebooks on Windows 8
• Part 4 of Peter Kuhn's Windows Phone 8 Series: Multiple Screen Resolutions
• Join Michael Crump's Webinar On Dec 18th: An Overview of the New WP8 SDK
• 40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Xmas Offer: A Bundle of 6 SilverlightShow Ebooks on Windows 8

Christmas is just around the corner and the whole team at SilverlightShow is haunted by the Christmas spirit. 

To celebrate this holiday even more, we have a special Christmas offer regarding SilverlightShow ebooks: a bundle of 6 SilverlightShow article-based Ebooks on Windows 8. All six come in convenient PDF, Word, MOBI and EPUB formats. Code (if any) also included.

Get SilverlightShow Xmas Ebook Bundle with more than 30% discount!

Price: $11.99

NOTE: Bundle offer valid thru January 10th, 2013.

Part 4 of Peter Kuhn's Windows Phone 8 Series: Multiple Screen Resolutions

This week Peter Kuhn posted the next part in his new SilverlightShow article series on Windows Phone 8. Read it here:

• Windows Phone 8: Multiple Screen Resolutions
  

Stay tuned for new articles from this series!

Join Michael Crump's Webinar On Dec 18th: An Overview of the New WP8 SDK

On Dec 18th, at 10 am PST, Michael Crump will deliver another great SilverlightShow online session - "An Overview of the Windows Phone 8 SDK"!

The Windows Phone 8 SDK brings along many new features that could benefit your next Windows Phone app. Come take a look at several of these new features including: Tiles and Notifications, Changing Lock Screen, Speech Recognition and Multi-Resolution apps. We will also discover the additional tooling support and templates covered with this release.

This is definitely a session to get you up to speed quickly with this new and exciting platform.

Go to webinar page | Register for this live session now

40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• A bad way to set up commands in your view model
• Windows Phone 8 Training Kit now available
• Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for November, 2012
• 10 Things Silverlight Developers Need to Know About the Windows Runtime
• The Importance of Wireframes in Application Design

All other news we published:

Monday (December 3rd, 2012)

• Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 101: What is Design?
• Acquiring a single Geoposition in Windows Phone 8
• A lap around Windows Phone 8 SDK: file association – Part 2
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #29: Application Lifecycle
• Updating your Windows Phone Location code to use WinRT
• Windows Phone Store market expansion and new game ratings
• Windows Phone 8 – WorkTime app weekend

Tuesday (December 4th, 2012)

• Geoposition advanced tracking scenarios for Windows Phone 8
• Debugging an HTML5 Windows Phone App
• Share charm stopped working while debugging Windows Store app?
• Windows Phone 8 SDK - Deploying Multiple Enterprise Applications
• Win8 App : stream videos from a Windows Azure Blob storage
• Matt Lacey: More on my opinion about commands
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #30: Store
• ShareMediaTask on Windows Phone 8
• Yet Another Podcast #84 – Chris Eargle Discussing Advanced C# and LINQ

Wednesday (December 5th, 2012)

• Highlighting search results within Windows Store apps
• Windows Phone 8 – Parallel async access fixed
• PlayerFramework for Windows Phone 8 now available!
• Changing the name of a Windows 8 Store app
• Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 101: Windows Design Language
• Designing a simple and secure app package – APPX
• Windows Phone 8 – Usage of Windows.Storage

Thursday (December 6th, 2012)

• RadControls for Windows 8 - Q3 Service Pack update
• Using the adcontrol from code in Windows Phone 8
• Introducing Windows Phone 8 Development: Part 1
• MSDN study links for Exam 70-485: Advanced Metro style App Development using C#
• A Windows 8 trick: Protocol activation of apps (and the nick app)
• What To Do When SQLCE Database Too Large For Windows Phone 8
• Sharing Code: Windows 8 and Windows Phone

Friday (December 7th, 2012)

• SilverlightShow Webinar Newsletter for December is Now Online
• The golden rules of Windows Store Apps design
• Building a Sweet Dial in XAML for Windows 8
• Windows 8 and Spell Check
• Windows Phone 8 Jump Start Video Recordings now available!
• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: ASP.NET Web API
• Eight Enthusiast Updates in Windows 8
• The secrets of the Windows Phone 8 keyboard
• Win8 XAML video player : easy globalization / translations
• WinRT app guide: Step 16: Sharing content by contract in 4 easy steps
• [Windows 8] Copy an image from Windows Desktop and paste it in your Windows Store

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