End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/24/2012)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week February 20-26, 2012:

• Next Parts of the Series 'Win8 and the future of XAML' & 'Developing for a multitude of clients'
• 5 Active Discussions from SilverlightShow Forums
• 50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Next Parts of the Series 'Win8 and the future of XAML' & 'Developing for a multitude of clients'

This week, we had two new articles published and both of the articles are parts of ongoing SilverlightShow series.

Gill Cleeren released the third post in his 'Windows 8 and the future of XAML' series. Here Gill starts writing code that makes use of WinRT components. After some “Hello Worlds”, he dives in more advanced concepts including Capabilities, the Share contract, working with the webcam and some more. Read more here:

• Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 3: Using WinRT
  

Kevin Dockx also published Part 3 of a series of his - 'Developing for a multitude of clients'. In this part, he starts with the development of a web-based Silverlight client. Learn how at:

• Part 3: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check.

5 Active Discussions from SilverlightShow Forums

Thanks to all who contributed with useful information throughout the last week and provided solutions to the issues discussed in our Forums. As you may know, each month we award our most active community members with some small encouraging gifts - an exclusive SilverlightShow T-shirt, and a free ebook of choice from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf. You still have a few days to get in the competition for our February awards. 

Here are 5 still active discussions from SilverlightShow Forums: 

• BusyIndicator and UserControl
  
• MVVM DataBinding Issue
  
• SilverlightShow Contest: Win a Pass for Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Event
  
• How to Hosting HTML in Silverlight 4.0 (Out of Browser)?
  
• ViewModel interaction
  

50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Prism 4.1 – February 2012 Is Out
  
• MIX: a Missed Opportunity for Microsoft?
  
• Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards Book Released
  
• How far will Microsoft go with HTML?!
  
• Video: MVVM Applied From Silverlight to Windows Phone to Windows 8
  

All other news we published:

Monday (February 20th, 2012)

• Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfalls (1 of n)
• Windows Phone Metro: From Transportation to Pixels
• Simple binding for simple (maybe not) Windows Phone applications
• [Windows Phone] Populating content smoothly
• Windows Phone Performance – Part 2 of many – It’s Full of Stars!
• How to Enable Call Waiting Service in WP7?
• Solving the ObservableCollection bug on Windows 8
• Modular WPF Screencast Part 3
• Phone Gap Tutorial #2 – Looking Around
• Impressions, slides and code from TechDays Belgium and Netherlands
• How to make a GPS Navigator for Windows phone
• Becoming an iOS Developer

Tuesday (February 21st, 2012)

• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week February 13-19, 2012
• Windows 8 & using any language you want
• Phone Gap Tutorial #3 – Reducing the load
• Windows Phone Login Navigation
• 20+ Free Windows Phone 7 Mockup and Wireframing Resources
• Visualising StackOverflow Tag Relationships with Silverlight
• Windows Phone 7 Sockets: Debugging
• Draw your Paths with Logo Turtle Graphics
• Connecting your apps, files, PCs and devices to the cloud with SkyDrive and Windows 8

Wednesday (February 22nd, 2012)

• Integrating LightSwitch Into An ASPNET Application To Provide Single Sign On
• Wrap Layout + UI Virtualization = RadDataBoundListBox for Windows Phone
• Async CTP – Task based asynchronous programming for Windows Phone
• Learn Windows Phone Development in 31 Days, Day 22 – Working with Device Information in WP7
• Programmatically Uninstalling Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Application
• “Wallpaper Downloader” - My First WP7 Application in the Marketplace
• Win a Pluralsight 30 Day Subscription by Sharing Information About Your Favorite Windows Phone App!
• Setup and Product Search in Windows Phone
• Getting the Windows Phone Blog Rolling with Image Zooming
• The Last Silverlight Post – Coming Out of the Closet
• Construct XAML Forms at Runtime with Resource Files
• How to crash other WP7 applications?
• Video: Building a Windows Phone Game with the Farseer Physics Engine

Thursday (February 23rd, 2012)

• Bindable Application Bar (Attached Property) - Windows Phone 7
• Learn Windows Phone Development in 31 Days, Day 23 – Working with Themes
• Backstory: Building the Office Blogs app for Windows Phone
• Data Snacking Metro Style: Part 1 Working with Web APIs
• RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012 Webinar Recording
• Windows Phone Global Progress Indicator
• Developing a Windows Phone application in Expression Blend from start to finish: Part 1
• Behavior to show a MessageBox from a ViewModel

Friday (February 24th, 2012)

• Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5 Book Now Available
• World’s first Windows 8 Conference To Be Broadcast Live on March 2-3 from Redmond, WA
• Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfalls (2 of n)
• XAMLflix continues with RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF
• Learn XAML + WP7 development right on your phone by writing and trying out samples!
• Silverlight 5: XNA Platformer running in Silverlight!
• 30 to Launch Windows Phone app - Camera Hack
• Windows Phone Localization

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