End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (3/2/2012)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week February 27 - March 4, 2012:

• New Article 'Windows Phone + SignalR = Awesome Possibilities!'
• Recording of Gill Cleeren's 'WP7.5 Background Workers' webinar
• SilverlightShow Windows Phone App Available on the Marketplace
• Last Chance to Win a Pass for Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Event
• Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for February
• 50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

New Article 'Windows Phone + SignalR = Awesome Possibilities!'

This week, Samidip Basu published an article explaining how to create a functional Windows Phone client that connects to a SignalR server backend and allows us to see the interactions on a web front-end. Read the article here:

• Windows Phone + SignalR = Awesome Possibilities!

Recording of Gill Cleeren's 'WP7.5 Background Workers' webinar

On February 28th, Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren delivered another great SilverlightShow webinar - Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers. The recording of this webinar, as well as all slides and demos, are now available online:

• Recording of Webinar 'Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers' by Gill Cleeren

SilverlightShow Windows Phone App Available on the Marketplace

Some good news for all our readers who use Windows Phone - SilverlightShow free Windows Phone app is now available on the marketplace (search for 'SilverlightShow') thanks to Peter Kuhn. Read more about the release of the app here:

• Read the new SilverlightShow content through our Windows Phone app

NOTE: Peter will use this application as the showcase in his upcoming article series on building a Windows Phone app from start to end. Read more about this here!

Last Chance to Win a Pass for Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Event

The end date to enter SilverlightShow contest and win a free pass for  Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas event is approaching fast. All entries must be submitted before 11:59 pm PST on March 5th (Monday). Joining the contest is easy, and requires almost no efforts and time on your side, so don't miss this chance. Find out more about this great opportunity to visit Vegas here:

• SilverlightShow Contest: Win a Pass for Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Event

If you are interested in this conference, you may also read our interview with Billy Hollis who is among the key presenters at the event!

Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for February

As it already became a tradition, we decided to check out which are the most purchased ebooks for the past month, and show them to you. Here they are:

• Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for February, 2012

50+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Windows 8 To The Future
  
• Introducing PDF Viewer for Silverlight/WPF
  
• REST with Silverlight 5, ASP.NET Web API, and MVC 4 Beta
  
• Microsoft may limit the number of Windows 8 editions
  
• Can Windows 8′s Metro succeed on the desktop
  

All other news we published:

Monday (February 27th, 2012)

• Windows Phone: Get Ready for 60% More Potential Customers
• What are YOU Looking for in the Consumer Preview
• Skype brings voice and video calling to Windows Phone users around the globe
• Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfall (3 of n)
• Multi Select ComboBox in Silverlight
• WP7 - Test if your ViewModel is serializable
• Sending large strings from Silverlight to WCF
• Getting Started with XAML: Slides and demos

Tuesday (February 28th, 2012)

• Adding an Image Background to a TextBlock in Windows Phone
• Telerik Welcomes Jesse Liberty to Their Team
• Learn WP7 Development in 31 Days, Day 28 – Working with Consuming a WCF Service
• Best practice tips for delivering apps to Windows Phone with 256 MB
• Windows Phone Design Mistakes and How to Avoid them
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update CTP – What’s New?
• TouchDevelop book and slides - now available online
• Take a screenshot with Silverlight 5.0 and pInvoke

Wednesday (February 29th, 2012)

• Slides and code from Colin Eberhardt's WPUG talk on PhoneGap
• Leap Ahead With Free Pluralsight Training on Leap Day
• Winners of free ebooks from our yesterday's 'Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers' webinar
• Which Type of Tasks will not work on low end version of Windows Phone
• Learn WP7 Development in 31 Days, Day 29 – Working with Encrypting Data for Security
• Windows Phone Image Placeholder Control with Arbitrary Content
• Windows 8 preview for consumers to be unveiled
• Playing around with undo & redo functionality on WP7

Thursday (March 1st, 2012)

• Windows 8 for keyboard users
• Introducing Windows 8 Consumer Preview
• XNA Windows Phone Theme Library
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview Event Video Now Available
• Windows 8 To Go: businesses should start here and now
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview 101
• Inside Visual Studio 11: A Guided Tour
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Process Lifetime Management (Part 11/11)
• Photobucket releases Windows 8 Metro app

Friday (March 2nd, 2012)

• Learn How To Make OData Calls In LightSwitch 2011
• Microsoft taking WP8 platform tooling feedback from Windows Phone developers
• 5 Ways Windows 8 Is Better Than iOS and Android
• Build your first Windows Phone 7 app
• What to expect from Catel 3.0?
• What’s changed for app developers since //build/ (part 1)
• Build HTML Metro Style Apps With Blend For Visual Studio 11 Beta
• PhoneListBox Control for Windows Phone
• Some possibly not-so-good news for business users with Windows 8
• Marios Karagiannis: Why I code for Windows Phone
• Using WCF RIA Services With LightSwitch 11

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