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Windows Dev News for January 20, 2012 - #0030

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In This Issue: Sumit Dutta, Senthil Kumar B, Tianyu Zhang, Kirupa Chinnathambi , Timmy Kokke, WindowsPhoneGeek, Scott Guthrie, Jesse Liberty, Dhananjay Kumar, Jay Kimble, Kunal Chowdhury, Colin Eberhardt, and Shawn Wildermuth.

Above The Fold:

CSS3:	"Easing Functions in CSS3" Kirupa Chinnathambi
Azure:	"Getting Started with Windows Azure " Scott Guthrie
JavaScript:	"Modern Web Development - Part 2 " Shawn Wildermuth

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

Michael Washington's latest Visual Studio #LightSwitch Daily is up
xyzzer's latest WinRT Daily News is up
Peter Kuhn announces Free Windows Phone Training

From WindowsDevNews:

Windows Phone and PhoneGap - Article #11 - Make a Phone Call - Part 1

Senthil Kumar B's 11th PhoneGap post is up, and is part 1 of making a phone call... pretty easy, wonder what part 2 is ?

Part 48 - Windows Phone 7 - pin to start by control

Sumit Dutta's WP7 post number 48 is up, showing how to pin an app to the start menu by using code

How to add Panorama to existing WP7 project

Have an existing WP7 app and wanna add a Panorama to it? Tianyu Zhang shows the quick and dirty of just that

Easing Functions in CSS3

Kirupa Chinnathambi has a great post on Easing in general, and he's showing it with CSS3... good stuff!

metro colors for photoshop

Timmy Kokke produced some Metro color swatches in the course of his work this week and is sharing them if you're a photoshop kinda person

How to get the Tapped Item in a MultiselectList control

WindowsPhoneGeek takes the mystery out of getting a reference to the tapped item in a MultiselectList... one of those things that sounds easy but isn't

Getting Started with Windows Azure

Scott Guthrie has the 2nd of a series of posts up on getting started with Azure and explains how to sign yourself up and get a no-obligation 3-month fee trial along the way.

New Videos Uploaded

Jesse Liberty added two more videos to his series, these two being on persisting and image and navigation within an MVVM app.

How to Use the ConnectionSettings Task for Windows Phone

Dhananjay Kumar is discussing the COnnectionSettings Task, defined in Microsoft.Phone.Tasks that allows you to set and adjust device network settings

WinRT Quick Tip #1: Get the Constructor for a Type

Jay Kimble ran into a WinRT issue where WinRT's type doesn't have a way to get to the constructor without using TypeInfo and reflection

How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript

Kunal Chowdhury demonstrates creating the Silverlight plugin dynamically using JavaScript

WP7 PhoneGap Backbutton Support Re-visited

Colin Eberhardt revits his prior PhoneGap post by maintaining a list of URLs for the navigation stack to detect backward navigation

Modern Web Development - Part 2

Part 2 of Shawn Wildermuth's great new series is up ... talking about his approach to Architecting JavaScript... to keep it from looking like the image on the top of his post :) ... lots to learn in this one!

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