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KMil

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

published 471 days, 19 hours, 1 minute ago posted by

KMil 474 days, 22 hours, 3 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)

category: Metro | clicked: 41 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: SDK, Windows 8, metro, XAML

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Working with Prism 4 Part 3: Composite Command and Pub/Sub Events

published 476 days, 13 hours, 3 minutes ago posted by

KMil 480 days, 15 minutes ago

In this article, you will see how to define multiple modules that can communicate with each other through a combination of CompositeCommands and Prism events. CompositeCommands let you have handlers registered or unregistered in a loosely coupled fashion, and allows you to have multiple handlers (child commands) that will be used by the CompositeCommand. Prism events are for situations that are not necessarily an action->reaction kind of set up where enablement and disablement is needed. You simply defin... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 38 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: Prism

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Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets

published 486 days, 19 hours, 9 minutes ago posted by

KMil 488 days, 20 hours, 18 minutes ago

The new OS 7.5 have made Sockets available to developers, opening the way to a wide series of applications that uses this low-level communication way. Sockets are for sure difficult from the programming side, but they offer a connected/disconnected, fast and reliable way of exchange data that is unreplaceable for many purposes. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 8 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: windows phone 7.5, wpdev, sockets

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Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API

published 494 days, 15 hours, 42 minutes ago posted by

KMil 495 days, 22 hours, 22 minutes ago

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. As you know for sure, the tiles can be attached or detached from the home screen and some particular software can take advantage of double size tiles. While this is not a feature available to developers, in OS7.5, the tiles gained new features and a new... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 95 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: Windows Phone 7

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SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone

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KMil 516 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes ago

In this article, we talk about how to leverage the new Live Connect APIs, in particular, the Live SDK in our Windows Phone applications. We'll see the usage of the Sign-in control to ask for user’s authentication & seeking permission to use specific resources through the Live API. SkyDrive access is now handy, with full support to traverse, read & manipulate content in user’s SkyDrive directories. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 25 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: SkyDrive, wp7dev, Windows Phone, wpdev

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Windows Phone 7.5 - Use Background agents

published 528 days, 7 hours, 42 minutes ago posted by

KMil 530 days, 21 hours, 34 minutes ago

One of the most important features added in Windows Phone 7.5 is the multithreaded environment. This missing feature was very criticized in the previous version, but the main reason of its lack was the high battery consumption that is usual in multithread phones. In this release the team has agreed to add the multithread capability but it worked hard to reach a good balance between multithreading and battery life. This is the main reason for the introduction of Background Agents that are a way to manage ... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 41 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: wp7dev, Windows Phone, windows phone 7.5, wpdev

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10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 8 of 10)

published 533 days, 21 hours, 57 minutes ago posted by

KMil 534 days, 20 hours, 45 minutes ago

In this article, I am going to discuss productivity and performance enhancements in Silverlight 5 including: XAML Binding Debugging, Parser Performance Improvements and Multi-core JIT for improved start-up time. (more)

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Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: a Silverlight menu for Sharepoint - Part 2

published 533 days, 21 hours, 57 minutes ago posted by

KMil 534 days, 20 hours, 47 minutes ago

In the first part of the article I introduced the matter, i.e. adding a Silverlight menu in Sharepoint. The first solution presented, defined as “the client approach”, has a major defect: it cannot be used for anonymous-enabled sites. In this second part we will see another way (that I called the “server approach”) in order to build a Silverlight menu for Sharepoint that can be used also by anonymous users. To make this new approach clearer I will introduce another few general concepts regarding the Shar... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 21 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: Line-Of-Business, Sharepoint

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Windows Phone 7.5 - Play with music

published 540 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by

KMil 541 days, 23 hours, 8 minutes ago

If you get the Windows Phone "Mango" update on your phone, and you are use to listen to music on your phone, you have for sure noticed some improvements in the music capabilities of the phone. Since the release of the OS7.0, the music hub is an important application that is able to integrate with the Zune marketplace and enable download and listen of music on the phone. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 18 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: Windows Phone, mango

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OData caching in Windows Phone

published 540 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by

KMil 541 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes ago

In this short article, we take a quick look at a data caching strategy in our Windows Phone applications while using an OData data source. While we talk about a Windows Phone solution in particular, these concepts are perfectly applicable when using OData on other mobile platforms. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 14 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: Windows Phone, OData

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Working with Prism 4 Part 2: MVVM Basics and Commands

published 540 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by

KMil 541 days, 23 hours, 13 minutes ago

The post explains the command pattern used in Silverlight MVVM applications. It also explains how Prism provides the framework to implement the MVVM and Command pattern in a Silverlight application. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 85 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: MVVM, Prism

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Working with Prism 4 Part 1: Getting Started

published 555 days, 9 hours, 55 minutes ago posted by

KMil 557 days, 20 hours, 39 minutes ago

In this first post of the 'Working with Prism 4' series, Brian Noyes gives you a quick introduction to the concepts and capabilities of Prism and walks you through creating your first Prism application, explaining what are some of the moving parts and pieces that make a Prism application different from a normal Silverlight app. In the next 3 or 4 articles, Brian will drill down into commanding, MVVM support, loosely coupled events, and navigation. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 39 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: Prism 4.0

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10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 5 of 10)

published 554 days, 8 hours, 46 minutes ago posted by

KMil 557 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes ago

In this article, Michael Crump is discussing the new text improvements in Silverlight 5 including: Text Tracking and Leading, Linked and Multi-column Text, OpenType Support, Pixel Snapped Text and TextOptions. (more)

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Windows Phone 7.5 - Programmatically use the phone camera

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KMil 562 days, 23 hours, 16 minutes ago

Today SilverlightShow published Part 3 of Andrea Boschin's article series dealing with Windows Phone 7.5 development: Windows Phone 7.5 - Programmatically use the phone camera. In this article Andrea will show you how to replicate the most common camera features into your own application. (more)

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tags: Windows Phone 7, mango

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10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 4 of 10) Sound/Media

published 556 days, 21 hours, 18 minutes ago posted by

mbcrump 564 days, 22 hours, 29 minutes ago

Let’s Begin with Low-Latency Sound using XNA SoundEffect A new addition to Silverlight 5 is the ability to play low-latency sounds using the XNA SoundEffect class. This is very useful for kiosk or even games that need to play a certain sound over and over. In Silverlight 5, this is much easier than before (where people used various MediaElement hacks). You can now simply borrow the SoundEffect / SoundEffectInstance class from XNA. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 19 | 5 comments | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: Silverlight 5

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Authorization in Silverlight, Part 3: Securing your service calls

published 566 days, 15 hours, 27 minutes ago posted by

KMil 571 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes ago

Learn some various ways for securing your service calls in the third part of Kevin Dockx's authorization series. In this post, Kevin starts by looking at WCF RIA Services security, and continues on to regular WCF services, specifically tailored to those cases in which you require a mix of technologies/frameworks, for example: a WCF RIA Services authentication service combined with regular WCF service calls. This series also has an offline version - "Authorization in Silverlight: Ebook": http://www.silv... (more)

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10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 3 of 10)

published 566 days, 15 hours, 27 minutes ago posted by

KMil 571 days, 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

This article is Part 3 of the SilverlightShow series “10 Laps around Silverlight 5” by Michael Crump. In this part, Michael takes a look at the new XNA 3D API and Improved Graphics Stack. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 57 | 8 comments | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: XNA, 3D

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Facebook Graph API and Silverlight

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KMil 577 days, 21 hours, 56 minutes ago

With more than 800 million active users, Facebook turns out to be the most popular social network at the current moment. So it's not a surprise that more and more applications are to use the social network to access data. If you're planning to integrate Facebook in your Silverlight app, this new article by Lazar Nikolov might be of help: Facebook Graph API and Silverlight. In this post, Lazar gives you the basics when using the Facebook Graph API in your Silverlight application to make it social. (more)

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tags: Facebook

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10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 2 of 10)

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mbcrump 579 days, 23 hours, 55 minutes ago

To contact me directly please visit my blog at http://michaelcrump.net/ or through twitter at http://twitter.com/mbcrump. This article is Part 2 of the series “10 Laps around Silverlight 5.” If you have missed any other section then please see the Roadmap below. To refresh your memory on what Silverlight is: Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing Rich Internet Applications. The run-time environment is available as a plug-in for most web browsers and works on a variety of opera... (more)

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tags: XAML, Silverlight 5

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Authorization in Silverlight, part 2: manipulating the UI

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KMil 579 days, 42 minutes ago

In this part, we’re going to look at another type of authorization: authorizing access to certain UI elements IN a View (instead of the complete View), depending on the role of the logged in user, and deciding what to do when the user hasn’t got the correct role (eg: do you want to disable the element, or do you want to hide it completely?). We’re going to write a component to achieve this as easily as possible, so it can be reused in different applications. (more)

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tags: Authorization

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KMil

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

Working with Prism 4 Part 3: Composite Command and Pub/Sub Events

Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets

Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API

SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7.5 - Use Background agents

10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 8 of 10)

Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: a Silverlight menu for Sharepoint - Part 2

Windows Phone 7.5 - Play with music

OData caching in Windows Phone

Working with Prism 4 Part 2: MVVM Basics and Commands

Working with Prism 4 Part 1: Getting Started

10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 5 of 10)

Windows Phone 7.5 - Programmatically use the phone camera

10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 4 of 10) Sound/Media

Authorization in Silverlight, Part 3: Securing your service calls

10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 3 of 10)

Facebook Graph API and Silverlight

10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 2 of 10)

Authorization in Silverlight, part 2: manipulating the UI

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