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KMil

Name:	KMil
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Windows 8 Metro: Enforce fluidness with animations and transitions

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KMil 254 days, 20 hours, 41 minutes ago

From the developer point of view animations are usually something of hard, just because they bring almost an additional “dimension” to the screens that is the time. Dealing with animations in a classic desktop application is almost impossible but also in a WPF or Silverlight application it may be cause of headaches. Windows 8 metro-style applications comes instead with a number of predefined animations that make the life easy like a breeze. (more)

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Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 7: The application lifecycle of Windows 8 applications

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KMil 282 days, 23 hours, 25 minutes ago

In this article, we’ll take a look at the options we have to manage how our application behaves in combination with the new application lifecycle management. We’ll take a look at executing code in the background as well. (more)

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Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 1: Using services to get data in our Windows 8 applications

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KMil 282 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes ago

In this new series of articles on SilverlightShow, we are going to explore how we can build connected Windows 8 applications. In other words, we are going to explore the options we have to connect our Windows 8 apps to services. The good news for us as developers is that Windows 8 apps can connect with many types of services. In this first article, we are going to explore the principles of accessing data over services in Windows 8 apps. We are going to apply this knowledge by accessing ASMX and WCF Serv... (more)

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Windows 8 Metro: Win as one with search and share contracts

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KMil 310 days, 21 hours, 34 minutes ago

SilverlightShow just published one more article from the Windows 8 Metro article series that Andrea Boschin started a while ago. In this post, the author is looking at Search and Share - the most common and useful contracts that a metro-style application can implement. (more)

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Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 2

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KMil 310 days, 21 hours, 37 minutes ago

This is Day # 2 in the Windows 8 development article series on common tips & tricks towards developing real-world Metro apps. The crux of this article is to talk about all the different Layout options for Windows 8 Metro apps and how to navigate between parts of a well-laid out application. Find out how to support various orientations & Visual States that Metro applications may need to go through for a enjoyable UX for the user. (more)

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Windows 8 Metro: Improve GridView and ListView with SemanticZoom and Incremental Loading

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KMil 325 days, 22 hours, 37 minutes ago

In the previous article from this series I've explored the main controls that support the new user experience in metro style applications. GridView, ListView and FlipView are a big help to fully embrace the metro-styled experience and having a deep knowledge about their features is important to develop effective applications. In this number I would want to go for two advanced features I've skipped in the introduction. I'm referring to Semantic Zoom, that is the ability to coordinate the content of two co... (more)

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Windows 8 Metro: Dealing with new metro controls

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KMil 333 days, 21 hours, 38 minutes ago

The challenge for a completely new user experience, based on the touch-based interaction in metro style applications, requires a complete set of new controls that simplify developer's life. This is the reason why, compared with Silverlight and WPF, Metro offers some the controls that implement this new kind of interaction, giving a lot of features and customization points. GridView, ListView and FlipView togheter makes a new deal for developers because they have a higher level of perception over the com... (more)

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Part 7: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check.

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KMil 346 days, 22 hours, 11 minutes ago

In this article, you will learn how to consume existing domain services from a new type of client: a Windows Phone application. You will also learn how to reuse common code using the Portable Class Library project template. (more)

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Windows 8 Metro: Something about application life-cycle

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KMil 368 days, 21 hours, 17 minutes ago

Also if currently you are probably running Windows 8 on a virtual machine or luckily on a computer, there is not any doubt that this new operating system and especially the metro-style interface is dedicated to touch enabled devices like tablets. The plans of Microsoft infact include the new WOA keywork where the acronym stands for Windows On ARM that is the aim of making available this interface on a wide set of mobile devices that currently embrace this successful processor architecture. Running on a ... (more)

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Windows 8 Metro: Starting your first App from scratch

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KMil 401 days, 21 hours, 30 minutes ago

After the first article in this series, where Andrea Boschin briefly discussed about design aspects of the new Metro interface, involving simplicity, flatness, emptiness and the pillars of this new beautiful paradigm, as promised, it is now time to start exploring the tools available to start create your applications. (more)

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Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 5: More contracts in WinRT/Windows 8

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KMil 401 days, 21 hours, 33 minutes ago

In the previous article, we’ve introduced contracts in Windows 8. To quickly recapitulate, a contract allows Metro style applications in Windows 8 to communicate which each other or with Windows, without there being a hard reference between the participants of the communication. We’ve seen how the search contract allows applications to open themselves up to Windows so they can be search. There’s of course a contract that specifies how this searching is to be done: an application has to follow the rules s... (more)

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Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 4: Contracts in WinRT/Windows 8

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KMil 409 days, 22 hours, 8 minutes ago

In the previous article of this series, Gill Cleeren wrote the first lines of code for WinRT. The main message was that although WinRT is a new API, we can still use our familiar languages to create Metro style applications. We have used the XAML/C# combination, but it’s perfectly possible to use XAML/VB or XAML/C++ as well. We’ll be using more of the API in the coming articles but in this article, we’ll focus on some specifics around contracts, more specifically, the Search contract. Contracts enable Me... (more)

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Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind

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KMil 415 days, 22 hours, 37 minutes ago

Starting with this article, I aim to begin a new series based on my evolving experience with the new Windows 8 Metro Applications. As few people knows I have a graphical background that lives side by side with my programmer soul. During this series I would like to discover most of the wonderful tools behind Metro applications but in this article I would like to briefly switch off my programmer side to take in serious consideration the design aspects behind Metro. (more)

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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: Out of Browser (OOB) Applications

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KMil 415 days, 22 hours, 43 minutes ago

This is a free chapter of the book "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action", published at SilverlightShow. The focus of this chapter is Out of Browser (OOB) Applications. (more)

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Part 4: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check.

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KMil 430 days, 9 hours, 56 minutes ago

Welcome to the fourth part of this article series on strategies for designing your application for a multitude of different clients. In the first part, we’ve looked into the business case & some general concerns, and in the second part, we made a choice for a service layer: WCF RIA Services. In the third part, we’ve seen how we can use MEF for on demand loading & code reuse across different clients. However, I left out a few things in that article: loading the Views on demand (as it requires e... (more)

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Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: Part 1

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KMil 430 days, 10 hours ago

During the course of developing the SilverlightShow Windows Phone application, we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the experiences with the SilverlightShow readers, because it is a nice example of discussing a real-world application, with real-world problems (and solutions :)). The idea of this mini-series of articles was born, where you will discover both details about the development process as well as some technical challenges we came across. This first part will deal with the process ... (more)

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SilverlightShow Interview with Billy Hollis - Presenter in a Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Workshop

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KMil 450 days, 8 hours, 21 minutes ago

In this SilverlightShow interview, we talk with Billy Hollis – the presenter at the most-awaited workshop at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas conference (March 26-30, 2012) - ‘Creating Today’s User Experiences - An Entry Point for Developers’. As we have announced, SilverlightShow is the Social Media Premiere Partner for this conference and we’ll be sending one SilverlightShow member to this conference for free. About Billy: Billy Hollis is an author and software developer from Nashville, T... (more)

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Working with Prism 4 Part 4: Region Navigation

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KMil 463 days, 13 hours, 31 minutes ago

Find out how to leverage the navigation capabilities of Prism in a more loosely coupled and flexible way with the IRegionManager.RequestNavigate method, INavigationAware and IConfirmNavigationRequest interfaces. (more)

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Developing for a multitude of clients Part 1: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check

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KMil 471 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes ago

In this article series, we're going to try and tackle a problem (or opportunity, depending on how you want to put it) a lot of business face today: customers expect to be able to use your applications on a multitude of devices, with different form factors, supporting different technologies. (more)

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Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications

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KMil 481 days, 8 hours, 52 minutes ago

The Microsoft’s Live SDK (or commonly referred to as Live Connect), provides a set of controls and APIs that enables applications to integrate single sign-on (SSO) functionality using Windows Live ID. You can also use it to access data in SkyDrive, Hotmail, and Windows Live Messenger. The library supports multiple platforms, including Windows Phone 7 Mango and Windows 8 Metro Style applications using either C#, Visual Basic or JavaScript. In this article, we will build our first metro style application... (more)

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tags: SDK, Windows 8, metro, XAML

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KMil

Windows 8 Metro: Enforce fluidness with animations and transitions

Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 7: The application lifecycle of Windows 8 applications

Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 1: Using services to get data in our Windows 8 applications

Windows 8 Metro: Win as one with search and share contracts

Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 2

Windows 8 Metro: Improve GridView and ListView with SemanticZoom and Incremental Loading

Windows 8 Metro: Dealing with new metro controls

Part 7: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check.

Windows 8 Metro: Something about application life-cycle

Windows 8 Metro: Starting your first App from scratch

Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 5: More contracts in WinRT/Windows 8

Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 4: Contracts in WinRT/Windows 8

Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind

Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: Out of Browser (OOB) Applications

Part 4: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check.

Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: Part 1

SilverlightShow Interview with Billy Hollis - Presenter in a Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Workshop

Working with Prism 4 Part 4: Region Navigation

Developing for a multitude of clients Part 1: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check

Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications

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