End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (9/21/2012)

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week September 17 - 23:

• New article by Andrea Boschin: "Windows 8 Metro: Using tiles to power up your app"
• Part 3 of Gill Cleeren's New Windows 8 Series Published: Background transfers in Windows 8
• SilverlightShow 'Ugliest UI' Challenge - Temporary Ranking
• 40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

New article by Andrea Boschin: "Windows 8 Metro: Using tiles to power up your app"

At the beginning of the week, Andrea Boschin posted the 11th article of his series on Windows 8 Metro:

• Windows 8 Metro: Using tiles to power up your application

Part 3 of Gill Cleeren's New Windows 8 Series Published: Background transfers in Windows 8

Gill Cleeren recently started a new Windows 8 article series (read Part 1 and Part 2) in which he's discussing the options you have to connect your Windows 8 apps to services.

The third part from the series was published on Tuesday, read it here:

• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 3: Background transfers in Windows 8

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SilverlightShow 'Ugliest UI' Challenge - Temporary Ranking

Have you heard of our crazy contest for ugliest User Interface? We already have 12 entries, and according to the likes received by now these are the 5 leading "UI masterpieces":

• "My eyes hurt" by Cioica Adriana
• "Win7 new interface (theme Black Beauty)" by Rish Movva
• "Тhe Chief Interface Design" by Nick Brandwood
• "Windows 3.1" by Miles Newey
• "An inherited Order Entry UI" by Ryan Horch

The challenge is ON until Sept 26. You still have time to submit your own entry. The 5 most-liked challenge completions get a SilverlightShow T-shirt, and the 10 most-liked get 2 free ebooks from SilverlightShow Ebook Shelf.

Winners will be announced inside the challenge and on SilverlightShow on Sept 27.

NOTE: Deed (www.ideedit.com) is a new portal created by SilverlightShow team for communicating through challenges. Watch Deed's video | Pick a challenge for you or your friends

40+ Fresh New Stories by Valued Bloggers and Community Sites

Top 5:

• Metro Studio – your modern UI style icons paradise
  
• [Windows 8] How to add “tilt effect” to your controls?
  
• Windows Phone 7.8 ROM Preview (Video)
  
• Windows 8 – Who Cares?
  
• Why I won't be buying the iPhone 5

All other news we published:

Monday (September 17th, 2012)

• Data Presentation and implementing a hero image in a grid in Windows 8
• A WinRT library for sharing Schema.org formatted data
• How to create and debug a background task in Windows 8 – Part 2
• Using Blend to Design HTML5 Windows 8 Application (Part II): Style, Layout and Grid
• Creating an inline AppBar Button Style for your Win8 apps
• Grouping GridView on Windows 8
• Windows Phone 8 has officially gone gold (RTM)
• WinRT app guide: Typography and color compliance, styling up the app & the RadControl chart
• Using a WrapPanel with ItemsControl and ListView in WPF
• SimpleIoc and the Messenger Service in MVVM Light

Tuesday (September 18th, 2012)

• Windows Store App: Working with HTML 5 Menu Flyout
• Tips and tricks for C# and JavaScript Windows 8 developers: Using notifications for non-modal messages
• Innovation Across Multiple Screens and How Your App Idea Fits In
• Layout transform in Windows 8 WinRT XAML
• ListBox empty template – using control templates and behaviors (part 2)
• Windows 8: Windows Store apps - RoamingSettings and the DataChanged event
• PayPal comes to Windows Phone
• Windows 8 Store App Crash Logs
• Windows 8 XAML Tips - Detect App Deactivation

Wednesday (September 19th, 2012)

• How to measure rendered string dimensions in Windows 8
• Introduction to Telerik RadSlideView Control for Windows Phone
• What’s new in Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls Release Candidate
• Using Blend to Design HTML5 Windows 8 Application (Part III): Style Game Board, Cards, Support Different Device, View States
• Ways You can Leverage Share Contracts in your Windows Store Game
• Experimenting with Windows Azure Mobile Services

Thursday (September 20th, 2012)

• W8WIL #3: Pinch-to-Zoom and Rotate in the Simulator
• Adding Notifications to Your Windows 8 Game
• Learn How to Build a WP7 Picture Gallery App and Win Telerik Licenses
• Different ways to access Control Panel in Windows 8
• Last Windows 8 App-a-Thon!
• Windows Phone Developer Guide: Determining Angle
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Books
• Make your HTML/JavaScript Windows 8 app accessible
• Photos and Video: The Windows Phone 8X and 8S by HTC

Friday (September 21st, 2012)

• Tips for submitting your Windows 8 app to the store
• Top 5 NuGet packages for Windows 8 development
• Windows 8 App Bars
• Windows Phone Developer Tools and XNA Game Studio 4.0
• Windows Store - Associating Publisher Id with Аpp
• Using Web Workers to improve performance of image manipulation
• How Windows 8 Will Shape Our Future
• Introduction to Telerik RadSlideHubTile Control for Windows 8
• Weekend reading: Windows Phone tips from MSDN Magazine

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