September 2011 Entries
In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Dennis Doomen, Lazar Nikolov, András Velvárt, Rudi Grobler, Jeremy Likness, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Ollie Riches, Kunal Chowdhury, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 3 - Adding wind effect" Lazar Nikolov WP7: "Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap" Colin Eberhardt LightSwitch: "LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–September" Beth Massi Metro: "Lighting up your C# Metro...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for September 19 - 25, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Why John Papa is leaving Microsoft? The future of Silverlight The MVVM Dashboard Good News about Silverlight and WPF for a Change Win8, Metro Apps and Silverlight Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Pete Brown, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Ollie Riches, Kunal Chowdhury, Alexandra Rusina, Mohamed Mosallem, and Stephen Forte. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "pInvoke in Silverlight5 and .NET Framework" Alexandra Rusina WP7: "Geo-location on WP7 - don't trust the first value returned" Ollie Riches Metro: "Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express" Stephen Forte Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's...
In this Issue: Nguyen Pham, Nigel Sampson, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Peter Kuhn, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Joost van Shaik, and Andrea Boschin. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Setting SelectedValue for ComboBox" Asim Sajjad WP7: "Mango ‘Augmented Reality’ 101: showing a video background" Joost van Shaik Windows8: "Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 1" Derik Whittaker LightSwitch: "Fun with the Office Integration Pack Extension for...
In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Scott Hanselman, David Anson, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Rajat Jaiswal, MIke Ormond, WindowsPhoneGeek, Xianzhong Zhu, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How To Use DataTriggers In Silverlight DataGrid" Dhananjay Kumar WP7: "Windows Phone eBook 1st Edition Published" MIke Ormond LightSwitch: "Filtering Lookup Lists with Large Amounts of Data on Data Entry Screens" Beth Massi Windows...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Kunal Chowdhury, WindowsPhoneGeek, Xianzhong Zhu, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Enumerating MIDI Interfaces using Silverlight 5 PInvoke" Pete Brown WP7: "Migrating PushBox Game from Android to Windows Phone 7 - Part 5" Xianzhong Zhu Windows8: "Windows 8: What you Need to Know" Jeremy Likness LightSwitch: "How To Create a LightSwitch Command...
In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Ollie Riches, Oscar Agreda, Samidip Basu, Dan Wahlin, Walt Ritscher, Laurent Bugnion(-2-), Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, Andy Beaulieu(-2-), Michael Sync(-2-), Above the Fold: Silverlight: "The MVVM Dashboard" Oscar Agreda WP7: "SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control" András Velvárt Windows 8: "Why I’m Excited About Windows 8" Dan Wahlin LightSwitch: "Creating LightSwitch Custom Controls" Michael Washington Shoutouts:...
In this Issue: Eric Jensen, Andrea Boschin, Gill Cleeren, Rene Schulte, Colin Eberhardt(-2-), Mark Tucker(-2-), Mark Monster, Walter Ferrari, and Michael Washington(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Welcome to Zombieland, the Metro Style Land of WinRT and the Undead" Rene Schulte WP7: "Adding Tactile Feedback to your app the easy way" Mark Monster LightSwitch: "A Random Walk Through The LightSwitch Data Model" Michael Washington Windows8: "TweetSearch – A Cross platform Metro UI WinRT and Silverlight...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for September 12 - 18, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Build 2011: What Is WinRT, and Is Silverlight Dead? Top 10 Moments from BUILD Day 1 Keynote and what wasn't said If Silverlight is Dead... Doug Seven's thoughts on the future of existing Microsoft technologies WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 1 - XML Namespace Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
I'm back... what did I miss?? Oh wait... you're expecting info from me about my week I guess :) I had an awesome time: Met tons of people that I didn't already know. Renewed friendships with another ton of people I only see a couple times a year Went to Billy Hollis' PreCon and learned a lot of cool design information that I have yet to transcribe or assimilate entirely Went to Tim Huckaby's party and was "B8 ed" ... although that looked better on the girl wearing the TShirt when I got there Didn't...
//BUILD - 2 Well... here I am in Anaheim, on 9/11, a day early for the Billy Hollis PreCon tomorrow. Sitting here wondering what this week is going to bring. I believe there are a few people I count as friends that know the information already, but I'm not one, and there are darned few. The people with Blue Badges have kept their word and kept very quiet. About the only thing I can say for sure is that most of the main players changed their signature blocks about the time that the whole "wait until...
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, David Anson, Cheryl Simmons, Ryan Alford, Peter Kuhn, Ollie Riches, Mike Hole, Allen Lee, WindowsPhoneGeek, Mike Taulty, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, and Vikram Pendse. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 PInvoke fun - System Font Dialog" Peter Kuhn WP7: "Adding a map image to a secondary live tile" Mike Hole Expression Blend: "Silverlight 4 – Custom Busy Indicator Using PathListBox" Ryan Alford Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain...
In this Issue: Ollie Riches, Tony Champion, Kunal Chowdhury, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, Jesse Liberty, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Justin Angel, and Shawn Wildermuth(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Creating a Multi-Click Event in Silverlight 5" Tony Champion WP7: "Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Statistics" Justin Angel Shoutouts: SilverlightShow has posted their top 5 for last week: SilverlightShow for August 29 - Sept 04, 2011 Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 29 - Sept 04, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Windows Phone 7 MVVM ViewModel ideas Silverlight 5 Release Candidate Available 29 ways to make your WP7 app killer and make money Top 5 Most Read SilverlightShow Ebooks for August, 2011 Installing Mango on Samsung Omnia 7 Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Tony Champion, Ollie Riches, Gill Cleeren, Koen Zwikstra(-2-), Peter Kuhn, Xianzhong Zhu, Mike Taulty, Pete Brown, Sumit Dutta(-2-), Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar(-2-), Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Spy September 2011 Update" Koen Zwikstra WP7: "Windows Phone 7 on-demand training available" Peter Kuhn LightSwitch: "Quick And Easy Data Management With LightSwitch" Michael Washington PivotViewer: "Extending your CXML Trading Cards in Silverlight 5" Tony...
In this Issue: Lee, Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, XamlNinja, Ollie Riches, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown(-2-, -3-), Dhananjay Kumar, Sumit Dutta, and Asim Sajjad. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using PInvoke in SL5 to show MessageBox" Lee WP7: "WP7Contrib: Dialling the phone number shown in a text block" Ollie Riches Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up Laurent Bugnion has some good news...
In this Issue: Tony Champion, Kevin Hoffman, Pete Brown(-2-), Mike Gold, Jeremy Likness, Xpert360, Den Delimarsky, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Vikram Pendse, and Michael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5: Remote control and MediaCommand Support" Pete Brown WP7: "Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango" Michael Crump PivotViewer: "To CXML or not to CXML" Tony Champion Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest Visual...