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Windows Dev News for April 25, 2012 - #0072

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In This Issue: Yasser Makram, Michael Washington, David Rousset, Filip W, Mike Taulty, Beth Massi, Dave Isbitski, Sumit Dutta, David Catuhe, Steven Hollidge, Laurent Bugnion, Kunal Chowdhury, and Paul Sheriff.

Above The Fold:

LightSwitch:	"A LightSwitch Netflix OData Mash-up" Michael Washington
Metro/HTML/JS:	"Accessing the Accelerometer in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML and JavaScript" Dave Isbitski

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up

From WindowsDevNews:

A LightSwitch Netflix OData Mash-up

In Michael Washington's latest LightSwitch post, he is consuming the Netflix OData service, and providing a way to add your own reviews to the movies

Windows 8 Quick Tip: Debugging Managed Code Referenced by HTML 5 Applications

Yasser Makram found a setting that enables debugging managed code in HTML apps... quick post and a picture (of a thousand words)

Modernizing your HTML5 Canvas games Part 1: hardware scaling & CSS3

David Rousset has part 1 of a 2 part series up about Modernizing your HTML games... this one is on hardware scaling and CSS3

Full screen Bing Maps with HTML5 Full screen API

Filip W has a post up combining Bing Maps and HTML5 in full screen .. note the full screen API support is only in Firefox 9+, Chrome 15+, and Safari

Simple Windows 8 Metro style ??Maps App??

Mike Taulty posted some not-ready-for-marketplace Metro code that converses with Bing Maps... some good external links for more info and some open spaces to express yourself in

Working with SQL Server LocalDB in LightSwitch Projects in Visual Studio 11

Beth Massi discusses the SQL Server LocalDB in VS11 and working with it in LightSwitch

Accessing the Accelerometer in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML and JavaScript

Dave Isbitski is sharing some development experiences of building a Win8 Metro game in HTML and JavaScript and is showing how to talk to the Accelerometer too.

Part 83 - Windows Phone - Encrypt Decrypt

Sumit Dutta guides us through the use of DPAPI to encrypt and decrypt data in a WP7 app

How to cook a complete Windows 8 application with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript in a week ?? Day 1

David Catuhe has Day 1 post up in his 1 week series ... today creating some more screens and adding offline support.. all the code, good description and lots of external links

PropertyPathHelper

Steven Hollidge has a boat-load of good stuff on his blog, here's one from earlier this week on getting the value of a binding in code

ICommand issue in Windows 8: Correction!

Laurent Bugnion stands corrected about the post he put out a few days ago about ICommands in Windows 8

How to Save Email Address in WP7 using the SaveEmailAddressTask

Kunal Chowdhury continues WP7 investigation with this post on saving an email address programmatically

Dynamic Search with LINQ, the Entity Framework and Silverlight

Paul Sheriff talks about a complex search solution he's working on with a client... resolved it with EF and LINQ

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