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Windows Dev News for January 26, 2012 - #0032

Community Blogs — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:29:23 GMT

body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Windows Dev News for January 27, 2012 - #0032 [SC1208] In This Issue: Brian Noyes , Tony Champion , goldytech , Roy Dallal , Vikram Pendse , Jose Fajardo , Jeremy Likness...( read more )...(read more)

Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3

Community Blogs — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:40:09 GMT

Ironically, my last release of MVVM Light V3 was about fixing bugs in templates and making them better. In the process however, seems that I introduced a regression bug in the WPF4 project templates. Yep shit happens. How do I know if I have the bug?...( read more )...(read more)

SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 16-22, 2012

Community Blogs — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:45:39 GMT

body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for January 16 - 22, 2012. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Windows 8 slip until 2013...( read more )...(read more)

Working with Prism 4 Part 3: Composite Command and Pub/Sub Events

Community Blogs — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:10:00 GMT

Tweet This is part 3 in the series Working with Prism 4. Introduction In the last article, I showed how to structure your Prism application to use the MVVM pattern and use DelegateCommands to communicate between the view and view model. Additionally,...( read more )...(read more)

A mesmerizing burst of circles (Silverlight 5 & XNA)

Community Blogs — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:30:44 GMT

Let’s give some love to Silverlight and in particular Silverlight 5’s 3DApi, which happens to be XNA. I want to draw something cool on this XNA DrawingSurface BUT then also replicate it in DirectX. I’ve honestly never done a DirectX/C++ … Continue...( read more )...(read more)

31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #4 Hub & Spoke Navigation Model

Microsoft Weblogs — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:46:04 GMT

31 Weeks of Windows Phone Design Index Introduction Today we begin our preparation to get ourselves ready to define the Information Architecture (IA) for our app. We will discuss Information Architecture more in depth in a future (not too far away post...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 22, 2012 - #0031

Community Blogs — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:34:14 GMT

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Saving Telerik PersistenceFramework data to a string

Community Blogs — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:03:27 GMT

In the project I'm involved with, we've been saving column arrangement and column width data for quite a while. I had a request to give the users a way to select which columns to display and it just seemed natural to include the display order with that...( read more )...(read more)

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 15-January-2012 to 21-January-2012

Community Blogs — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:38:00 GMT

Here comes the weekly Silverlight-Zone digest for the week 15th January 2012 to 21st January 2012. This week major posts were on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. Popular posts were from Christine L., who showcased "Water ScrollViewer", a must read if...( read more )...(read more)

Share Status and Link on Socials in Windows Phone

Community Blogs — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:43:00 GMT

Hope you all doing good.Sorry for the great delay here,I am almost working for all 7 days in week and that too on SQL Server – SSIS which is totally Alien to me but now I have good hands-on (In future you might get to see few post on that as well...( read more )...(read more)

GeekRider - the goal, technical perspective

Community Blogs — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:51:20 GMT

As I briefly mentioned earlier I am endeavoring on a project which is going to demand a lot from me physically, but also from a technical perspective. I have a lot of things on my plate, during daytime I'm 100% engaged with work at clients, nighttime...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 20, 2012 - #0030

Community Blogs — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:35:05 GMT

body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Windows Dev News for January 20, 2012 - #0030 [SC1206] In This Issue: Sumit Dutta , Senthil Kumar B , Tianyu Zhang , Kirupa Chinnathambi , Timmy Kokke , WindowsPhoneGeek...( read more )...(read more)

Boo-yah!!! Caliburn.Micro v1.3 RTW is Here

Community Blogs — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:32:00 GMT

I’m extremely pleased to announce the release of Caliburn.Micro v1.3 . This is a great release with many bug fixes and several API improvements. We also support several new platforms. Here’s the highlights: Support for WP7 Mango Support for...( read more )...(read more)

Technical Level of Understanding

Community Blogs — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:49:21 GMT

body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Technical Level of Understanding This is a response post to Michael Palermo's post of the same title . Definitely read the comments there... tons of good information and...( read more )...(read more)

How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript?

Community Blogs — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:31:04 GMT

We all know the process to embed a Silverlight application inside a Webpage using div and object tag. When we create a new Silverlight application project, those tags automatically generates by the IDE inside the html and aspx pages. In many cases we...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 18, 2012 - #00029

Community Blogs — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:19:36 GMT

body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Windows Dev News for January 18, 2012 - #0029 [SC1205] In This Issue: Michael Washington (- 2 -) , Senthil Kumar B , Colin Eberhardt , Andrea Boschin , Jose Fajardo , Jesse...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API

Microsoft Weblogs — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:43:37 GMT

by Andrea Boschin There is not any doubt, the first thing you meet when you use Windows Phone are the tiles. These are the large squares on the home screen that identifies some applications and they are also a distinguishable character that make your...( read more )...(read more)

Stop SOPA and PIPA

Jeff Handley — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:10:25 GMT

Please do not allow SOPA, PIPA, or any forms of Internet censorship or regulation to get through Congress. Over the past several years I've noticed a trend in our government where we've shifted away from laws protecting citizens from corporations and Read More......(read more)

SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 9-15

Community Blogs — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:28:14 GMT

body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for January 09 - 15, 2012. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Free Silverlight Show Webinar...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets

Community Blogs — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:10:00 GMT

Also if the technical specifications of Windows Phone 7.0 stated that it is compatible with Silverlight 3.0, this only means that every feature you can use in the phone is available on the desktop but not viceversa. Sockets are a clear demonstration of...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 15, 2012 - #0028

Community Blogs — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:45:31 GMT

body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Windows Dev News for January 15, 2012 - #00028 [SC1204] In This Issue: Tony Champion , (- 2 -) , Erno de Weerd , Matthias Shapiro , WindowsPhoneGeek , Senthil Kumar B ,...( read more )...(read more)

Win8 Concept : App Manager

Community Blogs — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:12:48 GMT

So this concept design for an “APP MANAGER” poped up on the interwebs and I must say I like it, clean and totally inline with the Win8 metro style of the rest of the OS. reference : Win8China Filed under: … Continue reading →...( read more )...(read more)

31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #3 Ideation and Concept

Microsoft Weblogs — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:42:44 GMT

31 Weeks of Windows Phone Design Index In the previous post, The Design Process of a Windows Phone App, we discussed the importance of defining a theme for your Windows Phone application. The ideation stage helps you refine your theme and generate ideas...( read more )...(read more)

A shimmering wall of sequin’s to compare WinRT XAML & Silverlight 5

Community Blogs — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:28:32 GMT

Let’s get a bit creative this week. I have this vision in my head of a wall of glittering sequin’s, you know what a sequin is right?! like what was big in the ‘disco’ era, and still is big today … Continue reading →...( read more )...(read more)

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 08-January-2012 to 14-January-2012

Community Blogs — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Here comes the weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com . We submitted around 60 new links during 8th January 2012 to 14th January 2012 in our Silverlight or WP7 portal. Read more to find out which are the top 5 posts of the week. Also sharing...( read more )...(read more)