| In this Issue: Michael Washington, Manas Patnaik, Jeff Blankenburg, Doug Mair, Jon Galloway, Richard Bartholomew, Peter Bromberg, Joel Reyes, Zeben Chen, Navneet Gupta, and Cathy Sullivan. |  |
Above the Fold:
| Silverlight: | "Using ASP.NET PageMethods With Silverlight" Peter Bromberg |
| WP7: | "Leveraging Background Services and Agents in Windows Phone 7 (Mango)" Jon Galloway |
| Metro/WinRT/Windows8: | "Debugging Contracts using Windows Simulator" Cathy Sullivan |
| LightSwitch: | "LightSwitch: It Is About The Money (It Is Always About The Money)" Michael Washington |
Shoutouts:
Michael Palermo's latest is up
Michael Washington's latest is up
From:
Michael Washington has a very nice post up about LightSwitch apps in general and his opinion about the future use... based on what he and I have been up to, I tend to agree on all counts!
Manas Patnaik's latest post is about using the VisualTreeHelper class to iterate through the visual tree to find the controls you need... including sample code
Jeff Blankenburg's Day 18 in his 31-Day Mango quest is on Sample Data using Expression Blend, and he begins with great links to his other Blend posts followed by a nice sample data tutorial and source
Doug Mair returns to the reigns of Jeff's 31-Days series with number 19 which is all about Tilt Effects... as seen in the Phone application when you select a user... Doug shows how to add this effect to your app
Jon Galloway has a WP7 post up discussing Background Services and how they all fit together... he's got a great diagram of that as an overview then really nice discussion of each followed up by his slides from DevConnections, and code
This one isn't C#/XAML, but Richard Bartholomew has a Netflix on Windows 8 app running that bears notice
Peter Bromberg has a post up demonstrating calling PageMethods from a Silverlight app using the ScriptManager control
Joel Reyes announced the release of a full-featured tool for side-loading apps to your WP7 device... available at codeplex
Zeben Chen discusses the Windows 8 Simulator a bit deeper with this code-laden post showing how to look at roation and orientation-aware apps and resolution.
Navneet Gupta has a great into post to using the simulator in VS2011 for Windows 8 apps. Four things you really need this for: Touch Emulation, Rotation, Different target resolutions, and Contracts
Cathy Sullivan shows how to debug W8 Contracts in VS2011... why you ask? because when you hit one in the debugger, the target app disappears.. but enter the simulator... check it out
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