Sunday, January 15, 2012

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

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

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

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 03:42 PM PST

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)

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

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 08:30 AM PST

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)

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

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 02:28 PM PST

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)
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Windows Dev News for January 13, 2011 - #0027

Windows Dev News for January 13, 2011 - #0027

Windows Dev News for January 13, 2011 - #0027

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 07:46 PM PST

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Windows Dev News for January 12, 2011 - #0026

Windows Dev News for January 12, 2011 - #0026

Windows Dev News for January 12, 2011 - #0026

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:21 PM PST

Windows Dev News for January 12, 2011 - #0026 [SC1202] In This Issue: Kyle Delaney , Kirupa Chinnathambi , Robby Ingebretsen , Rudi Grobler , Janos Gergely , Den Delimarsky , Sumit Dutta (- 2 -) , Dhananjay Kumar (- 2 -) , Matthias Shapiro , Senthil Kumar...( read more )...(read more)
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

SilverlightShow Top 5 for Dec 12-18, 2011

SilverlightShow Top 5 for Dec 12-18, 2011

SilverlightShow Top 5 for Dec 12-18, 2011

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 - 18, 2011 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for December 12 - 18 , 2011: Silverlight 5 Finally Hits the Web Why Silverlight 5's 3D is (almost) useless Requiem for Silverlight Should I use...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 - #0018

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 - #0018 [SC1194] In This Issue: African Geek , Giorgi Dalakishvili , WindowsPhoneGeek , Charles Petzold , and Sumit Dutta Shoutouts: Michael Palermo 's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington ...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 - #0019

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 - #0019 [SC1195] In This Issue: Dhananjay Kumar , Kunal Chowdhury , Sumit Dutta , Jesse Liberty , WindowsPhoneGeek , and Dan Wahlin Shoutouts: Michael Palermo 's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael Washington...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 02, 2011 - #0020

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

Windows Dev News for January 02, 2011 - #0020 [SC1196] In This Issue: Senthil Kumar ( -2- ), Michael Washington , Arturo Toledo ( -2- ), Joost van Schaik , and Andrea Boschin Shoutouts: Michael Palermo 's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up Michael...( read more )...(read more)

SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19-25

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19 - 25, 2011 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for December 19 - 25 , 2011: When Metro design falls off the tracks Christmas Offer: A Bundle of 20+ SilverlightShow Ebooks Building a generic...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 03, 2011 - #0021

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

Windows Dev News for January 03, 2011 - #0021 [SC1197] In This Issue: Laurent Bugnion , Igor , Gill Cleeren , Loek van den Ouweland , Matthias Shapiro , Dhananjay Kumar , Sumit Dutta , Jesse Liberty , and Sheriev Akhmed Above The Fold: Windows 8: "Windows...( read more )...(read more)

SilverlightShow for Dec 26, 2011 - Jan 1, 2012

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 26, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for December 26 , 2011 - January 1, 2012 Windows 8 Slate Review 11 Things every Software Developer should be doing in 2012 More than...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 07, 2011 - #0022

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

Windows Dev News for January 07, 2011 - #0022 [SC1198] In This Issue: Michael Washington , René Schulte , Senthil Kumar B (- 2 -) , Colin Eberhardt , Andy Beaulieu , Eric Vogel , Alnur Ismail , Dhananjay Kumar , Sumit Dutta , Jesse Liberty , and Mark...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 09, 2011 - 2 - #0024

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

Windows Dev News for January 09, 2011 - 2 - #0024 [SC1200] In This Issue: Senthil Kumar B , Josh Eastburn , Lorenzin David , Andrew Duthie , Arturo Toledo , Kirupa Chinnathambi , Kunal Chowdhury , Igor , Mark Michaelis , and John Papa __________________________________...( read more )...(read more)

SilverlightShow Top 5 for January 2-8, 2012

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

SilverlightShow Top 5 for January 2-8, 2012 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for January 2-8, 2012 Free SilverlightShow Ebook: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 Why Windows 8 Tablets Will Surprise Everyone Free SilverlightShow Webinar...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 09, 2011 - #0023

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

Windows Dev News for January 09, 2011 - #0023 [SC1199] In This Issue: Jose Fajardo , Rudi Grobler , XAMLGeek , Michael Crump , Pete Brown , Derik Whittaker , Sumit Dutta , Dhananjay Kumar , Oana Csertus , and Andrea Boschin __________________________________...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Dev News for January 11, 2011 - #0025

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 11:58 AM PST

Windows Dev News for January 11, 2011 - #0025 [SC1201] In This Issue: Senthil Kumar B , Mark Monster , Kellabyte , Kunal Chowdhury , Kirupa Chinnathambi , WindowsPhoneGeek , Pete Brown , Walt Ritscher , Rudi Grobler , WindowsPhoneGeek , Sumit Dutta ,...( read more )...(read more)

Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 1: An overview of the Windows 8 platform

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 09:02 AM PST

by Gill Cleeren Introduction to the series Welcome to this first part of a whole series on Windows 8 articles, which I'll be writing over the coming weeks and months. It's my goal in this series to introduce you to what we know at this point about Windows...( read more )...(read more)

“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:08 PM PST

This coming Monday (Jan 16th) I'm doing another online LIDNUG session .  The talk will be from 10am to 11:30am (Pacific Time).  I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun.  Attendees can ask any questions they want to me, and listen to me answer them live via LiveMeeting.  We usually end up having some really good discussions on a wide variety of topics.  Any topic is fair game: technical, strategy, community, college basketball, etc. You can learn more and register to attend the online event for free here . I'll update this post with a download link to a recorded audio version of the talk after the event is over. Hope to get a chance to chat with some of you there! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 086 for 1/11/2012

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 05:02 PM PST

The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML , WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++ , XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7 , Windows Phone , Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup 086 for 1/11/2012

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 05:02 PM PST

The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML , WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++ , XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7 , Windows Phone , Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services...( read more )...(read more)
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Wow, I actually couldn’t write JavaScript, what I wrote smelled…

Wow, I actually couldn’t write JavaScript, what I wrote smelled…

Wow, I actually couldn’t write JavaScript, what I wrote smelled…

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 12:47 PM PST

Alright, I'm not really a JavaScript developer, but do they even exists? I think there probably are a few JavaScript developers in this world, but most of the developers that I know of are developing for the Web. Developing for the Web in it's widest...( read more )...(read more)

Threading Considerations for Binding and Change Notification in Silverlight 5

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 08:48 AM PST

A reader of my Silverlight 5 book recently reached out to me about threading and why I create some objects on the UI thread in the examples. We discussed some of the reasons, but I felt this would be a good topic to share with everyone. In fact, this...( read more )...(read more)

Threading Considerations for Binding and Change Notification in Silverlight 5

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 08:48 AM PST

A reader of my Silverlight 5 book recently reached out to me about threading and why I create some objects on the UI thread in the examples. We discussed some of the reasons, but I felt this would be a good topic to share with everyone. In fact, this...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Reporting Open Source Printing/Reports Example Updated for Silverlight 5

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 12:44 PM PST

I recently posted an updated version of Silverlight reporting on codeplex . Here's the overview. This project, a unofficial project by Pete Brown of Microsoft, provides a a very basic framework for building simple, short, multi-page reports using Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)
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Monday, January 9, 2012

Silverlight Reporting Open Source Printing/Reports Example Updated for Silverlight 5

Silverlight Reporting Open Source Printing/Reports Example Updated for Silverlight 5

Silverlight Reporting Open Source Printing/Reports Example Updated for Silverlight 5

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 12:44 PM PST

I recently posted an updated version of Silverlight reporting on codeplex . Here's the overview. This project, a unofficial project by Pete Brown of Microsoft, provides a a very basic framework for building simple, short, multi-page reports using Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

Presented “LightSwitch for Business Application Development” in Microsoft Monday

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 11:34 PM PST

It was an awesome moment to speak at "Microsoft Monday" today. I delivered one hour session on "LightSwitch for Business Application Development" in front of a great people of Mahindra Satyam.   In this blog post, I am going to share the slides that...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 07:43 AM PST

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 Windows Phone unique...( read more )...(read more)

Looking at Silverlight adoption statistics (for fun)

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 02:22 AM PST

These stats are purely for fun, digest these figures with a huge serving of salt! .  All these stats come from RIASTAT's and I've pulled them from other people's posts. There are other statistic collection sites that I too like … Continue reading...( read more )...(read more)

31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #2 The Design Process of a Windows Phone App

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 12:56 AM PST

Here is a proposed design process for Windows Phone apps that I've been using. While many of these are conventional design process stages, I'm trying to explain them from a Windows Phone app point of view specifically. This post is about the...( read more )...(read more)
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Understanding the Gyrometer data from WinRT

Understanding the Gyrometer data from WinRT

Understanding the Gyrometer data from WinRT

Posted: 07 Jan 2012 09:58 PM PST

I spent a little time this week trying to make sense of the data coming back from the Gyrometer in the WinRT api's from my Samsung slate. This is what I discovered… But before I show you my findings I … Continue reading →...( read more )...(read more)

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 01-January-2012 to 07-January-2012

Posted: 07 Jan 2012 08:30 AM PST

Here comes this week's (1st January 2012 to 7th January 2012) news digest on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch and Metro UI. We have submitted ~63 new article links at Silverlight-Zone.com .   Read more to find out the top 5 posts of the...( read more )...(read more)

Metro style app designs that are starting to excite me!

Posted: 07 Jan 2012 02:04 PM PST

I'm really starting to like what I'm seeing in metro designs that are leaking. They're starting to really show me what level of re-imagining Microsoft and partners/developers are making for their apps. More importantly it's showing me the level of …...( read more )...(read more)
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