We are entering into the final part of this series, on large scale refactorings: this kind of operations is less predictable and less immediate. However, it is important to be able to perform them with small steps whenever necessary, if we don't want to get stuck in a situation with dozens of broken classes and no clear further step to take. Preview Text:  ...

The last time AppFuse had an update done to its look and feel was in way back in 2006. I've done a lot of consulting since then, which has included a fair bit of page speed optimization, HTML5 development and integrating smarter CSS. It was way back in '05 when we first started looking at adding a CSS Framework to AppFuse. Preview Text:  ...

The other day on the wxPython IRC channel on freenode, one of the members there asked if there was a way to make the wx.FileDialog display more than one file type at a time. In the back of mind, I thought I had seen a Microsoft product that could do it, but I’d never seen any wxPython examples. In this short tutorial, you will learn how to do this handy trick! Preview Text:  ...

Preview Text:  IE9 lets you integrate sites with the Windows 7 desktop easily, using the jQuery 'Pinify' plugin. This article explains how to use Pinify to break the boundaries of the browser and push your sites to Windows users more directly.

Abstractions have a cost. You should limit them. That seems like an obvious statement, but in a recent discussion I had, I realized that I didn’t articulate things in quite the proper way before. Let me see if I can explain better now. One of the problems in typical applications is that we don’t really think before we introduce abstractions. For the purpose of this discussion, an...

I came across an interesting problem recently, while trying to model the structure of a university course in Django. The model needed to represent the notion of a university module, which can be taught over a number of semesters and/or years, by different people, and with different students each time round. Some information remained common to each of these modules however, such as the code,...

I have been writing few series of new HTML5 input types and this is another post on same series. In this post I am going to explain Number input types. The number type is for numeric values. When you use number input type it will have spinner with up and down arrow and with the help of this you can increase or decrease of value. Attributes of Number Input type: There are four attributes of...

The last couple of weeks we were working on a new, exciting project: a collaborative, real-time markdown editor that runs on a NodeJS server, hosted on Windows Azure (you'll hear more about this soon). One of the features that this app will have is the ability to store the .markdown files in either your local disk or Azure Blob Storage. To achieve this, we investigated the best way to list...

Today Cloud9 announced the availability of Windows Azure in order to better serve the Node.js community.  Cloud9 claims to be the "best environment for importing, developing, and testing your node.js applications."  The Cloud9 team has also posted the videos below to help you get started. Preview Text:  The Cloud9 team has also posted...

A friend of mine alerted me this weekend to just how much I have a weird fascination with Venn diagrams. I decided to roll with it. So yeah, I have an irrational love of Venn diagrams. But that begs the question, can I make a Venn diagram with just CSS? I found a couple of examples out there: Preview Text:  A friend of mine alerted me this...

In the #documentcloud IRC channel on January 31, 2012, Jeremy Ashkenas (jashkenas) and Yehuda Katz (wycats) were asked by Travis Swicegood to contrast Backbone.js and Ember.js. (I have removed some IRC noise and unrelated conversations for clarity.) Preview Text:  A little discussion came up on IRC about Ember.js vs. Backbone.js. Jeremy Ashkena...

Hello DZoners!My name is Austin Kowitz and I’m a graphic designer at DZone. And you can mostly blame (praise?) me and DZone developer, Ross Jernigan, for what you see currently at DZone. We still have tons of ideas we haven't implemented yet -- but we're doing the agile thing, releasing early, releasing often. So we'd love hear your feedback, whatever it may be. I’m bracing myself for the...

Below you may find a summary of all new content we've published on SilverlightShow throughout the week January 30 - February 5, 2012:

• New Articles
• Webinar News
• Ebook News
• Forum News
• 50+ fresh new stories by our valued bloggers and community sites

New Articles

• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications by Michael Crump
  
• Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 2: The Windows Runtime (WinRT) by Gill Cleeren
  

Webinar News

• Recording of Webinar 'Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 1' by Gill Cleeren
  
• Winners of free ebooks from our yesterday's Metro/WinRT webinar
  
• Part 2 of the Webinar 'Metro and WinRT for Silverlight/WPF' scheduled for Feb 9th
  

Ebook News

• Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for January, 2012

Forum News

• SilverlightShow Most Active Forum Members for January Announced
  

50+ fresh new stories by our valued bloggers and community sites Top 5:

• 7 Deadly Sins for Windows Phone Developers: Day #1 Pride
  
• LeakEvent -> WeakEvent in Silverlight
  
• New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to make Sliding Panels all in Blend
  
• Refactoring Windows 8 Code-Behind to MVVM
  
• Why Windows Phone needs WinRT
  

All other news we published:

Monday (January 30th, 2012)

• Create Your Own Skin For The Windows Phone 7 Emulator
• Accelerometer Sensor for Windows Phone 7
• Winning on the Marketplace: The differentiation game
• How to implement communication between Silverlight and the HTML host
• Templating a XAML CheckBox to a thumbs-up/down control using Expression Blend
• Creating a Visual Studio LightSwitch Screen Template
• Windows Phone Tutorial: Playing A Sound, Simplified
• How to Turn On/Off Synchronization of Windows 8 Personalization with Windows Live ID
• Windows 8 Metro style app recap
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages
• How I ended up using WebBrowser instead of a TextBlock in a Windows Phone application
• Top 10 sharks using Expression Design, Free Blend & XAML
• WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior

Tuesday (January 31st, 2012)

• SilverlightShow 'Metro & WinRT' Webinar Split Into Two Parts. Slides for Part 1 Available!
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 23-29, 2012
• Telerik Chart Legend in Metro Style
• Windows Phone 7 - Location Service and Bing Maps
• Something's Missing from the WebBrowser Control
• More on the New OData T4 Template: Service Operations
• How to Write Your First WinRT XAML Metro App
• Creating A LightSwitch Theme Extension using Expression Blend
• Acting on file management feedback for Windows 8
• The Big Dummies Guide for Windows Phone Developer Resources

Wednesday (February 1st, 2012)

• Common Marketplace ingestion errors and how to avoid them
• Top 10 Tips for Building a Windows Phone App
• Code to send game invite to multiple user in Windows Phone
• Displaying static maps on the Windows Phone for performance and scenario wins
• Using JQuery with WinJS
• 13 Windows 8 features worth knowing about
• MVVMLight Hello World in 10 Minutes
• 7 Deadly Sins for Windows Phone Developers: Day #2 Envy
• How To Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG
• Memory Profiling for Application Performance
• HTML5 on Windows Phone: A Simple Boilerplate
• Windows Phone Resources

Thursday (February 2nd, 2012)

• 7 Deadly Sins for Windows Phone Developers: Day #3 Sloth
• EvenTiles from Start to Finish, Part 16 - Using Launchers inside your application
• Implementing Trial Functionality for Windows Phone applications
• Deploying LightSwitch Applications to Windows Azure
• Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 1 – Getting Started with WP7
• Register for Q1 Release Webinar by Telerik - Sharpen your .Net Ninja Skills
• Windows 8 Photoshop Templates
• Fixing the Mango Microphone Issue – Part 1
• Windows Phone Design Guidelines on MSDN

Friday (February 3rd, 2012)

• Windows Phone 8 Detailed
• Windows 8 Touch Events Interactions
• Get Your Windows Phone Applications in the Marketplace Faster
• 7 Deadly Sins for Windows Phone Developers: Day #4 Wrath
• Horizontal Scrolling in RadDataBoundListBox now available
• Using Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications: part2
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2012
• Missing Background Image on Panorama Control breaks ContextMenu and Causes Performance Issues in Windows Phone Applications
• The Windows Phone Marketplace Needs an Affiliate Program
• How to Databind SelectedItems of the ListPicker and RecurringDaysPicker

The recording of Gill Cleeren's yesterday SilverlightShow webinar - Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer - is now online.

Watch the webinar recording | View the webinar slides | Download the demos
 

In this webinar, which is part 1 from a 2-part session (join part 2 next week) Gill Cleeeen demonstrated how you can transfer your Silverlight/WPF knowledge to the new Metro-way of building applications. He did this by looking at a working application containing most of the features you’ve come to love in Silverlight. 

Agenda for part 1 was:

1. General XAML stuff for Windows 8
2. Old and new controls
3. Finding your way with navigation

Agenda for part 2 (Feb 9th) is:
 
1. Styling and templating
2. Data in your Windows 8 apps: Getting data, data binding
3. The Application Lifecycle (Copyright 2010 Windows Phone 7)
4. Tiles and more (Copyright 2010 Windows Phone 7)
5. IO’ing in Metro apps

As usual, we had some small gifts for the attendees who joined and supported the event - 3 free copies of Gill's SilverlightShow ebook ''Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506' and 2 free ebooks ''Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook'' from Packt Publishing. See who got the ebooks!

Missed a previous webinar? Visit SilverlightShow Webinars Page for a list of all sessions delivered by now!
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Sentry is a realtime event logging and aggregation platform. At it’s core it specializes in monitoring errors and extracting all the information needed to do a proper post-mortum without any of the hassle of the standard user feedback loop. Preview Text:  Ken Cochrane has a great step by step post on how to run Sentry on DotCloud. ...

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Metro & WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 1' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on February 2nd, 2012.

Download the webinar slides (ppt / pptx) | Download the demos

Webinar summary: Are you currently building XAML-based applications using Silverlight or WPF? And are you afraid that all you’ve learned in the past is now suddenly obsolete? Then you should really attend this webinar and be amazed!

We’ll see how you can transfer your knowledge to the new Metro-way of building applications. We’ll do this by looking at a working application that contains most of the features you’ve come to love in Silverlight. 

You’ll learn that things like data binding, styling, controls and much more can be leveraged to build applications in Windows 8. After this webinar, you will see that all of a sudden, you are already an experienced Metro app developer! A big smile is guaranteed after this talk!

Level 250-300

Agenda for part 1:

1. General XAML stuff for Windows 8
2. Old and new controls
3. Finding your way with navigation

Part 2 of the "Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer" is scheduled for February 9th, 2012, 10 am PDT (see your local time). Sign up now | View agenda

Some small prizes were given in this webinar:

• Three free copies of Gill Cleeren's ebook 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506'
• and 3 free ebooks 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' by Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks! 

  

Enjoyed this webinar? Gill Cleeren has a 4-day training session on XAML!

XAML on Silverlight 5, WP7, Win 8 Metro & WPF: a 4-day Training in London, UK
February 20-23, 2012, from 9.00 am till 5.00 pm | Trainer: Gill Cleeren | Training page

This training will focus on mastering XAML on the following platforms: Silverlight 5, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 Metro and WPF.

The goal of this training is to teach the students to work with XAML by using it on one platform, and then apply the knowledge they already have to other platforms. A focus will be put on the differences between all platforms, as well as the aspects in which they overlap.

Fee for the full 4-day training course: £ 1.700 + VAT.

Learn more »

When I started working with the CityGrid Places API I needed a project to help me learning about how to use the API, and wrap my head around whats possible when building local web applications. Preview Text:  Kin's work with CityGrid places led him to the conclusion that user-centered local direction provides search mechanisms for finding...

Recently, Mozilla stopped the Electrolysis project [1] that was to give Firefox per-tab processes. Hence, I was relieved when David Bruant pointed out to me that Mozilla haven’t given up on a parallel browser. They are working on a project called Servo which is being implemented in the Rust programming language. Servo – the next Firefox Preview Text:  ...

Sencha Touch 1 used the class system from Ext JS 3, which provides a simple but powerful inheritance system that makes it easier to write big complex things like applications and frameworks. With Sencha Touch 2 we’ve taken Ext JS 4’s much more advanced class system and used it to create a leaner, cleaner and more beautiful framework. This post takes you through what has changed and how to...

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Here is the new SilverlightShow content for Friday, February 3rd, 2012.

• Recording of Gill Cleeren's 'Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer' webinar is now available
• Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for January, 2012
• Winners of free ebooks from our yesterday's Metro/WinRT webinar
• Windows Phone 8 Detailed
• Windows 8 Touch Events Interactions
• Get Your Windows Phone Applications in the Marketplace Faster
• 7 Deadly Sins for Windows Phone Developers: Day #4 Wrath
• Horizontal Scrolling in RadDataBoundListBox now available
• Using Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications: part2
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2012
• Missing Background Image on Panorama Control breaks ContextMenu and Causes Performance Issues in Windows Phone Applications
• The Windows Phone Marketplace Needs an Affiliate Program
• How to Databind SelectedItems of the ListPicker and RecurringDaysPicker

Missed yesterday's news digest? Check it out here!