October 2011 Entries
In this Issue: Michael Crump, Kevin Dockx, Ollie Riches, Shawn Wildermuth, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Joost van Shaik, Colin Eberhardt, Tony Champion, David Catuhe, Igor, Jeremy Likness, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "SL5 PivotViewer Custom DetailPaneStyle" Tony Champion WP7: "Taking screenshots with Windows Phone 7 applications using a video feed" Joost van Schaik LightSwitch: "“I Command You!” - LightSwitch Screen Commands Tips & Tricks" Beth Massi Metro/WinRT/Windows8:...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Ollie Riches, Jesse Liberty, Peter Torr, Jeremy Likness, Derik Whittaker, WindowsPhoneGeek, Morten Nielsen, Michael Crump, Asim Sajjad, Andrej Tozon, Dhananjay Kumar, Laurent Bugnion, and Avi Pilosof. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using Visual States to Set Focus on a Control" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Background Agents" Jesse Liberty Metro/WinRT/Windows8: "Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications." Michael Crump Metro/WinRT/Windows8: "Using The Silverlight...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for October 10 - 16, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Introduction to XAML Development on Windows 8 Announcing WCF Data Services Oct 2011 CTP for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 Five things you'll love about Windows Phone 7.5 Mango WP7.5 Mango: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly 5 ways to wring more revenue out of your mobile apps Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow....
Sorry for the tardiness of this post, but I was out of state on family business. If you are looking for Silverlight Developers, I am in contact with developers looking for work, so I can make the introductions for you. In this All-Submittal Issue: Oscar Agreda, Michael Washington(-2-), Gill Cleeren(-2-), goldytech, Michael Crump, Ollie Riches, Colin Eberhardt, and David Catuhe. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Toolkit (September 2011) for Silverlight 5–What’s new?" David Catuhe WP7: "How...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for October 03 - 09, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Silverlight Toolkit (September 2011) for Silverlight 5–What’s new? Installing Mango on Samsung Omnia 7 Get Ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 With Our Brand New Ebook! [Silverlight 5] Getting started with PivotViewer “Active” Federation with Silverlight, WCF, and WIF Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light...
In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Dave Campbell, Laurent Bugnion, Pete Brown, Asim Sajjad, Daniel Egan, Kunal Chowdhury, Joost van Shaik, Jeff Wilcox, Cristian Merighi, and Avi Pilosof. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 in Action Book Excerpt: Using the Accelerometer from Silverlight 5 via Native Extensions" Pete Brown WP7: "A note about remote URIs in Windows Phone secondary tiles" Jeff Wilcox Metro/WinRT/Windows 8: "Quick tip: Select the correct INotifyPropertyChanged in Windows 8 /...
This app isn't much to brag about but it sets the stage and underpinnings for apps to follow by getting some of the 'plumbing' in hand. Along the way I used Scott Hanselman's awesome VHD instructions and then explained some of the controls using the mouse and keyboard on a non-touch system. Read On to see the kind of trouble fun I got myself into coding as if it were a Silverlight app. This is the first of hopefully many...
In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Andrea Boschin, Colin Eberhardt, Anoop Madhusudanan, Lee, Laurent Bugnion, Rudi Grobler, Xianzhong Zhu, Jesse Liberty, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, XAMLNinja, and Kunal Chowdhury. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Develop a Flexible 2.5D Scene Editor Targeting Silverlight RPG Games - Part 2" Xianzhong Zhu WP7: "A Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) MVVM Tombstoning Example" Colin Eberhardt Metro/WinRT/Windows 8: "Consuming WCF Service in Windows 8 XAML/C# metro application" AfricanGeek...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for September 26 - October 02, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: The Top 10 Over-Engineering Mistakes in Silverlight Applications Recording of yesterday's webinar 'WCF RIA POCO Domain Services' available online Developers get MORE with Windows Phone 7.5 Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap Silverlight 5 P-Invoke: Using Kinect SDK from Silverlight Visit and bookmark...
In this Issue: Justin Angel, Kunal Chowdhury, Lazar Nikolov, Laurent Bugnion, Rudi Grobler, Asim Sajjad, Nikola, and Igor. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 4 - Adding sound effects" Lazar Nikolov WP7: "The Fastest Way to Switch Free/Paid and NoDo/Mango App Build in Visual Studio" Nikola Metro/WinRT/Windows 8: "Reverse Engineering and Modifying Windows 8 Apps" Justin Angel Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington's latest...
First a big congratulations to all the new and renewed MVPs (October 1)! In this Issue: Rogier van der Hee, Laurent Bugnion, Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Rudi Grobler, Xianzhong Zhu, Derik Whittaker, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, Charles Petzold, Nikola, XAMLNinja, and Ollie Riches. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Connecting to FTDI devices using Silverlight 5 RC" Rogier van der Hee WP7: "Removing poly line from Bing Maps on WP7" Ollie Riches Metro/WinRT/Win8: "Metro Controls – Jump Viewer"...