End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/9/2011)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week December 5-11, 2011:

• New Articles
• Ebook News
• Upcoming Webinars and Trainings
• New showcase
• 50+ fresh new stories by our valued bloggers and community sites

New Articles

• Windows Phone 7.5 - Use Background agents by Andrea Boschin
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 9 of 10) by Michael Crump
• Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData - Part 1 by Samidip Basu
• Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData - Part 1 by Samidip Basu

Ebook News

• Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for November, 2011

Upcoming Webinars and Trainings

• Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar with Peter Kuhn: Unit Testing for Windows Phone | December 14th, 10 am PDT
  
• XAML: a 4-day Training in London, UK | February 20-23, 2012 | Trainer: Gill Cleeren
  

New Showcase

• Silverlight Color Wheel
  

50+ fresh new stories by our valued bloggers and community sites

Top 5:

• WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 8 - What other people are blogging
  
• Microsoft Webinar: Let’s explore Silverlight 5 with Gill Cleeren
  
• Microsoft: Silverlight still crucial for Windows Phone
  
• MVVM Frameworks For .NET
  
• WCF RIA Services Contrib: new extension methods
  

All other news we published:

Monday (December 5th, 2011)

• LightSwitch: Levels of Validation and Filtering on User Membership
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #3: Sending SMS and intro to Plugins
• Bringing SelectedItem Into Focus Using DataGrid Control
• RealWorldWPDev Part 6: Page navigation and passing complex state
• Windows Phone is currently FIVE times more profitable for us than the iPhone
• Re-imagining the behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background
• Telerik Tour in UK/Scotland: all the downloads and retrospective
• Migrating Android Applications to Windows Phone 7
• Communication Between Silverlight And JavaScript (Part 2)
• Async tests in Silverlight
• 10-Minute App - IIS Setup for Windows Phone 7
• Catel: improved validation and the ValidationContext
• Windows Phone: EvenTiles from Start to Finish–Part 4
• Windows Phone Mango Panorama: Working around the minimized appbar bug
• Detect whether Silverlight is installed and its version through JavaScript

Tuesday (December 6th, 2011)

• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week Nov 28 - Dec 4
• Xbox Companion for Windows Phone coming December 6th
• Understanding the Difference between Panorama and Pivot in Windows Phone
• Windows Phone Sites Around the World
• Creating an animation in Expression Blend
• How to give an element focus when something happens?
• Deploy Visual Studio LightSwitch on a Shared Server
• Filtering Collection Properties with RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF
• Programming Windows Phone 7.5 Part 3: Stack Exchange API
• PivotViewer Basics: Dynamic Collections

Wednesday (December 7th, 2011)

• Testing the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps
• Previewing the Windows Store
• How to: Stream any video file from PC to WP7 device
• TileMap & Box2d game using Silverlight + XNA, part 2
• So You Want To Build Apps?
• EvenTiles from Start to Finish–Part 5
• Testing your Windows Phone app with various connection speeds
• How to create Splash Screen with Progress Bar in Windows Phone 7
• If I can build a phone app anyone can Part 3: What is tombstoning
• REST with JAX-RS and Silverlight clients
• Making a custom Windows Phone Bing Maps PushPin from an image

Thursday (December 8th, 2011)

• Help Desk: An Advanced Visual Studio LightSwitch Application
• What does featuring in the Marketplace do with your Windows Phone app
• Building an Augmented Reality XAML control
• [Windows Phone] Access your Windows Live data easily thanks to the Live SDK
• MVVM Light template and WCF services (or any ASP.NET application for that matter)
• Starter Kits for Windows Phone
• Creating Buttons in Expression Blend
• What is Package.appxmanifest File in Windows 8 Metro Style Application
• Windows Phone Format Phone Numbers

Friday (December 9th, 2011)

• Simple Azure Web and Worker Roles - Running the code
• Setting up your first use of the Animation library in WinJS
• WindowsDevNews.com: A Visual Studio LightSwitch Application
• Why I’m Replacing My iPhone With Nokia Lumia 800 And Why Android Is No Option
• Building Stock charts with RadChart for Windows Phone
• The joy of running daily builds
• Submitting Apps to Marketplace with Background Tasks
• Calling WCF REST Service with Basic authentication from Windows Phone 7
• Debugging the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps
• A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips
• MPNS module for Node: A simple push notification helper for the cloud
• EvenTiles from Start to Finish–Part 6

SilverlightShow team wishes you a most enjoyable weekend!