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10 Things a Silverlight Developer Should Know About Windows 8: Webinar, Slides, and Code

07.06.2012
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I recently delivered a webinar for SilverlightShow titled, “10 Things a Silverlight Developer Should Know About Windows 8.” The recording of the webinar is now available on-demand. Continue reading below for more information on what topics were covered.

Webinar Summary:

In this webinar, Silverlight MVP Michael Crump, will take a look at how Silverlight developers skills translate over to WinRT. He will dive straight into 10 things that he has discovered while working with WinRT. You will quickly find out just how much you will need to learn to work with this new platform.

The 10 Things:

1. Starting with the Fundamentals

2. Application Lifecycle

3. XML/Code Namespaces

4. Making WebRequest - Async

5. Storage

6. Navigation

7. Controls

8. Animations

9. Freebies

10. Monetizing

Wrap-up

Thanks everyone for attending and remember that the video, slides and demo code is all available on SilverlightShow right now.

Published at DZone with permission of Michael Crump, author and DZone MVB. (source)

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