End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (8/17/2012)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week August 13 - 19, 2012:

• New SilverlightShow Series: 'Connecting Windows 8 applications with services'
• Read the Last Part of Gill Cleeren's 'Windows 8 & the Future of XAML' Article Series
• Watch Recording of Recent Webinar 'Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world'
• 40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

New SilverlightShow Series: 'Connecting Windows 8 applications with services'

The new week at SilverlightShow started with a new Windows 8 article series in which one of our most appreciated authors Gill Cleeren will be discussing the options you have to connect your Windows 8 apps to services.

You can find the first part from the series here:

• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 1: Using services to get data in our Windows 8 applications

In this article, Gill is exploring the principles of accessing data over services in Windows 8 apps. We are going to apply this knowledge by accessing ASMX and WCF Services from a Windows 8 application.

Read the Last Part of Gill Cleeren's 'Windows 8 & the Future of XAML' Article Series

In the beginning of this year, Gill Cleeren started a series of articles discussing Windows 8 and the future of XAML. This week we published the 7th (and last) part of this series: 

• Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 7: The application lifecycle of Windows 8 applications

In this last article, Gill takes a look at the options you have to manage how your application behaves in combination with the new application lifecycle management. He takes a look at executing code in the background as well.

Now that this series is finished, we'll soon convert and release it as an ebook (PDF, Word, MOBI & EPUB formats + source code). Stay tuned!

Watch Recording of Recent Webinar 'Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world'

On August 16th, SilverlightShow had the honor to host another great webinar by Gill Cleeren - Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world. Those of you who didn't make it to the live session can now watch the recorded presentation online:

• Recording of Webinar 'Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world: connecting with services and integrating the cloud' by Gill Cleeren

In this session, Gill explores how WinRT apps can connect with services (WCF, REST...) and the cloud to offer a great experience. He also discusses how internals like roaming data can be used in your apps.

Our next webinar - Windows 8 Metro Questions and Answers - is scheduled for September 19th. In a total of 60-70 minutes, Gill Cleeren will answer the top Windows 8 Metro questions (approx 10-15, depending on broadness of questions) asked by the webinar attendees. 

NOTE: Questions may be submitted via the webinar registration form until August 22nd. The final list of questions to be covered will be announced until August 31st.

Learn more on this webinar | Register | See all upcoming and past SilverlightShow Webinars!

40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Available Now: Blend for Visual Studio 2012
  
• Windows 8 - Data binding Part 2
  
• Why Windows Phone 8 should succeed?!
  
• Hello Netflix? This Windows 8, WinJS and HTML5. Can we talk?
  
• Windows 8 apps, what’s an Enterprise to do?

All other news we published:

Monday (August 13th, 2012)

• Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfall (5 of n)
• Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications – Part 2
• A WinRT behavior to turn a FlipView into a kind of Windows 8 Panorama
• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #18 Creating backgrounds for Panoramas
• Synchronous to Asynchronous Explained
• How to Make Your Windows 8 App More …well … More Windows 8!
• Windows 8 Notifications: Periodic Notifications
• Liven up your Windows 8 app with location and sensors
• Using text to speech on Windows Phone 8
• Answering your top 10 Windows Phone Dev Center questions

Tuesday (August 14th, 2012)

• Slides for Tomorrow's Webinar: 'Windows 8 apps: connecting with services and integrating the cloud'
• Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs
• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #17 Motion Catalog in Windows Phone
• Storage Helper for Windows 8
• Creating a WinRT component using C++/CX: DeForm, a Direct2D effect toolkit
• Microsoft releasing Windows Phone 8 SDK on September 7th?
• Introduction to RadBulletGraph for Windows 8
• Continuous Location tracking on Windows Phone 8
• From the Windows 8 Camps: GridViews with Inlined Group Headers
• Windows 8 XAML Tips - Settings Demo

Wednesday (August 15th, 2012)

• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for August 6 - 12, 2012
• New control for elegantly picking TimeSpan values on Windows Phone: TimeSpanPicker
• Using ImageTile control from Coding4Fun v1.6
• WinRT: GroupedGridView first item other template
• Using dependency properties to create reusable Windows 8 app components
• Windows 8 and HTML Part 4: First Taste of WinJS
• Continuous Location tracking on Windows Phone 8 Part 2: Background
• Windows Phone App publishing temporarily on hold
• Adding multiple lines of text to your Win8 tile update

Thursday (August 16th, 2012)

• Winners of free ebooks from yesterday's Windows 8 and Services webinar
• Data Binding In Windows 8, Part 3 – Element Binding
• Windows 8 RTM is available for developers
• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #19 Tips for Designing Tiles
• Migrating your Release Preview app to Windows 8
• Nokia and Microsoft announce September 5th Windows Phone event
• Windows 8 - Exploring the StorageApplicationPermissions
• Preparing for Windows 8 RTM with a System Image backup

Friday (August 17th, 2012)

• Creating a line graph with RadCartesianChart from the Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls
• Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications Part 3: ViewModels and MVVM Light Toolkit
• Windows 8 Evaluation Copy
• This is my next: Windows 8
• What’s New in Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls Beta 2, Compatible with Windows 8 RTM
• Memory Profiling: The Types View
• Windows 8 and HTML Part 5: Fetch Data with WinJS

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