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Windows Dev News for May 15, 2012 - #0082

Community Blogs — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:24:34 GMT

Windows Dev News for May 15, 2012 - #0082 [SC1258] In This Short Issue: Senthil Kumar B ( -2- ), and Jaime Rodriguez Above The Fold: Metro Dev Webcasts: "MSDN Webcast series on building Metro style apps" Jaime Rodriguez Shoutouts: Michael Palermo...( read more )...(read more)

Learn about RadDiagnostics for retrieving Exception Details using the Telerik Controls for WP7

Community Blogs — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:30:00 GMT

Telerik introduces a new component called “RadDiagnostics” in their Q1.2012 release. RadDiagnostics component enables an application developer to receive crash reports and other debugging information from the end user of the application. As a WP7Dev...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for May 14, 2012 - #0081

Community Blogs — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:09:07 GMT

Windows Dev News for May 14, 2012 - #0081 [SC1257] In This Issue: Dave Isbitski , Jalpesh P. Vadgama , Andrea Boschin , Pete Brown , Kunal Chowdhury , Timmy Kokke , Windows Phone Team , Sumit Dutta , Kirupa Chinnathambi , and Steven Hollidge . Above The...( read more )...(read more)

Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: part 4

Community Blogs — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:30:00 GMT

When you create an app like the SilverlightShow app, that accesses remote data frequently, thinking about a suitable strategy for local storage and caching is vital to provide a great user experience. In the previous parts of this series, we have already...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for May 10, 2012 - #0080

Community Blogs — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:25:36 GMT

Windows Dev News for May 10, 2012 - #0080 [SC1256] In This Issue: Jose Fajardo , Kirupa Chinnathambi , Jalpesh P. Vadgama , Angelina Gambo and Hamid Mahmood , Dave Isbitski , Shawn Wildermuth , Beth Massi , Joost van Schaik , Andrea Boschin , Oren Gal...( read more )...(read more)

Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster in Phoenix 6/19/2012

Community Blogs — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:18:11 GMT

Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster in Phoenix 6/19/2012 AZGroups 6/19/2012 Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster! June is hot in Phoenix... and June 19th is just a week before what was the hottest we've ever had. AZGroups is going...( read more )...(read more)

Books, books, books

Community Blogs — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:35:03 GMT

Seems like today is “books” day. Working really hard for last few months, I completely forgot to blog about the book which I took part in! Announcing: Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight: Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs Few months ago, 15 MVPs...( read more )...(read more)

It’s reading time!

Community Blogs — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:18:01 GMT

Just got my hands on new book “Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration” by David Burela. The book overview looks very promising and should give me a details how create scalable enterprise applications using Silverlight 5 (yes...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for May 09, 2012 - #0079

Community Blogs — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:05:01 GMT

Windows Dev News for May 09, 2012 - #0079 [SC1255] In This Issue: Sumit Dutta , Dhananjay Kumar , Kirupa Chinnathambi , Steven Hollidge , Jose Fajardo , Jonas Follesø , Derik Whittaker , Jason Farrell , Kunal Chowdhury , Peter Kuhn , Shawn Wildermuth...( read more )...(read more)

Interview with Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx on their new book 'Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook' (by Packt Publishing)

Community Blogs — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:35:58 GMT

NOTE: Until May 31st all Microsoft ebooks by Packt Publishing may be purchased with 30% discount, and all Microsoft print books – with 20% discount. Learn more on this offer here! In this interview we talk to Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx about their...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for May 08, 2012 - #0078

Community Blogs — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:15:49 GMT

Windows Dev News for May 08, 2012 - #0078 [SC1254] In This Issue: Michael Washington , Filip W , Ren?chulte , Senthil Kumar B , Joanna Mason , Dave Isbitski , Andy Beaulieu , Jesse Liberty , Jason Farrell , Kunal Chowdhury , Nicholas Wolverson , Lazar...( read more )...(read more)

Animated gifs in XAML/C# :)

Community Blogs — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:45:16 GMT

Someone the other day tweeted a link to some very cool animated gifs. I love animated gifs !! I have always wanted animated gifs in Silverlight/WPF BUT for reasons unknown they never came. They would have been perfect for A … Continue reading →...( read more )...(read more)

Thank You Microsoft!

Microsoft Weblogs — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:39:54 GMT

Hello! A month ago I decided to leave Microsoft. Today, I’m writing to say thank you to all of you for your support and friendship throughout the years. It’s been quite a ride. I could write a book (or two) about all the things I learned while...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 Metro: Layout, view states and navigation

Community Blogs — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:21:25 GMT

Download the source code for this article The target devices where it is expected Windows 8 to runs are something of really amazing, since it should run from tablet devices of the most various sizes to the the widest monitor. Don't miss... Free webinar...( read more )...(read more)

Using FX effects in your managed metro apps

Community Blogs — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:30:03 GMT

In the WPF and Silverlight “desktop” worlds we have the luxury of being able to use shader effects (fx) in our apps, this infrastructure is not available in the “Windows Phone” or “WinRT XAML/C#” worlds. However thanks to SharpDx and … Continue...( read more )...(read more)

SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 23 - 29, 2012

Community Blogs — Sun, 06 May 2012 02:36:18 GMT

SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 23 - 29, 2012 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for April 23 - 29, 2012. Navigation in a MVVM based world Dynamic Search with LINQ, the Entity Framework and Silverlight How to cook a complete Windows...( read more )...(read more)

Location and Bing Map Resources for Windows Phone

Community Blogs — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:11:33 GMT

Just wrapped up presenting at a Windows Phone Camp in Denver and I wanted to post a few follow up links that we talked about during the session. Location Programming Best Practices for Windows Phone http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431814(v=VS...( read more )...(read more)

Learn about RadPhoneApplicationFrame for Page Animations using the Telerik Controls for WP7

Community Blogs — Sat, 05 May 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Currently I am working on a Windows Phone 7 application using the Telerik controls and learning a little more bit about the controls present in their library. So, I thought to share the same in my blog for next few days. If you are using these controls...( read more )...(read more)

Create Games for Windows 8 using Physamajig!

Community Blogs — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:26:00 GMT

The next update of Physamajig will allow users to create their own "Mini-Games" - without writing code! This new version will be released after the June 2012 Windows 8 Release Preview . Like the current release of Physamajig , you just draw out elements...( read more )...(read more)

vNext Phoenix meeting tonight, May 2, 2012

Community Blogs — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:57:37 GMT

vNext Phoenix meeting tonight, May 2, 2012 vNext Phoenix Come out to the first vNext Phoenix meeting tonight at Interface Technical Training. Joe Guadagno of the Southwest Valley .Net UserGroup will be speaking on VS11: "If you want to follow along, I...( read more )...(read more)

Metro style applications – designing for the user

Community Blogs — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:21:00 GMT

It has been months since Windows 8 is available for developers and the need for new applications is growing in a fast pace. Don't miss... Recordings of SilverlightShow Win 8 webinars The article series: Windows 8 and the future of XAML Ebook: Windows...( read more )...(read more)

Monthly Summary - April 2012

Community Blogs — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:07:03 GMT

Here comes the “ Monthly Summary ” post of April 2012. Last month I published 14 blog posts, among them 12 was on “ How to ” series of my Windows Phone 7 Tutorial for developers. In this summary post I am going to share them in a single page, so...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for May 01, 2012 - #0077

Community Blogs — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:00:44 GMT

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Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 6: Tiles, toasts and badges

Community Blogs — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:47:22 GMT

Download the source code for this article Welcome to part 6 already in this Windows 8 series. Since the goal of this articles is bringing you in touch with all the important aspects of Windows 8 development, we need to dive into tiles. Don't miss... Recordings...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for April 29, 2012 - #0076

Community Blogs — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:10:37 GMT

Windows Dev News for April 29, 2012 - #0076 [SC1252] In This Issue: Michael Washington , Senthil Kumar B , John Papa , David Catuhe , Jose Fajardo , Laurent Bugnion , Tim Heuer and Morten Nielsen , Shawn Wildermuth , Dave Isbitski , Kunal Chowdhury ,...( read more )...(read more)