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Windows Dev News for January 31, 2012 - #0034

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Above The Fold:

LightSwitch:	"Creating A LightSwitch Theme Extension using Expression Blend" Michael Washington
Metro:	"Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications" Michael Crump

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

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

From WindowsDevNews:

Michael Washington's latest LightSwitch tutorial is up... this one is a a step-by-step of creating a theme extension using Expression Blend

Senthil Kumar B is continuing to investigate PhoneGap, and this one is about using the camera object to take pictures.

After some introduction of the process, Michael Crump builds a metro style application using the Live SDK and XAML/C

Eric Vogel's latest article in Visual Studio Magazine is on a Metro/WinRT RSS reader ... good looking writeup

Dhananjay Kumar discusses Web Storage in HTML5 in this video tutorial

Timmy Kokke demonstrates use of multiple images to deal with theme switching and still showing branding in WP7

Gill Cleeren has part 2 of his Win8/XAML series up at SilverlightShow disucssing WinRT this time out

Joost van Schaik uses Expression Blend to beat the heck out of a CheckBox for WP7 and get a cool thumbs-up/thmbs-down visualization

Beth Massi released an AddressBook samle for LightSwitch beginners... great beginning tutorial... go get it!

Kirupa Chinnathambi shows how to generate a random color in JS

Shawn Wildermuth has part 3 of his excellent Modern web series up... this time out he's all about CSS

Stay in the 'Light!