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Windows Dev News for March 08, 2012 - #0047

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In This Issue: Tim Heuer (-2-), Jason Farrell, Asim Sajjad, Morten Nielsen, Paul Sheriff, Pete Brown, John Papa, Dhananjay Kumar, Sumit Dutta, Dan Wahlin, Adam Kinney, and Waleed Arafa Al-Zoghby.

Above The Fold:

Windows 8:	"TiltEffect for Windows 8 Metro XAML" Morten Nielsen
Windows 8:	"How to Create Bootable USB for Windows 8 Consumer Preview" Dhananjay Kumar
Windows 8:	"Windows 8 AppBarIcons enumerated and visualized" Adam Kinney

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

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

From WindowsDevNews:

Windows 8 for keyboard users

Tim Heuer has a video by Jensen and a great break-out list of keyboard shortcuts for W8

XAML AppBar Button Styles for Windows 8

Tim Heuer references a couple posts by Adam Kinney they expands on the styling discussing and talks about their use in Blend as well

Building a Data Layer with Sterling

Jason Farrell describes his work with Jeremy Likness' awesomeness, Sterling which is similar to mine... I'm a big fan

Multi Select ComboBox in Silverlight

Asim Sajjad talks his way through a Multi-Select ComboBox that he inherited and modified

TiltEffect for Windows 8 Metro XAML

Morten Nielsen takes a shot at duplicating the W8 Start Menu 'tilt' effect by porting over the TiltEffect class in the phone Toolkit and ended up with something very cool that he's sharing

An HTML 5 Navigation Screen

Paul Sheriff details out a very nice Navigation bar in HTML5 ... code, discussion and external links abound

REST with Silverlight 5, ASP.NET Web API, and MVC 4 Beta

Pete Brown posted his materials from the talk he gave at the South Florida Code Camp

KnockoutJS's Built-in Bindings

John Papa digs into KnockoutJS bindings in this post which is actually a link to his MSDN Magazine article

How to Create Bootable USB for Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Dhananjay Kumar has exactly the post I need... Jaime Rodriguez came to my rescue last Thursday night when my slate pooted, and I need to follow Dhananjay's instructions myself in case it happens again

Part 60 - Windows Phone 7 - Global Application Bar

In his 3rd AppBar post, Sumit Dutta tackles an appbar used in multiple pages ... a 'global' appbar

jQuery Tip #5: Using jQuery's end() Function to Work with Sets

Dan Wahlin's 5th jQuery tip is on the end() function which makes pretty quick work of what would otherwise be a nasty bit of coding

Windows 8 AppBarIcons enumerated and visualized

Adam Kinney discusses the new way AppBar icons are defined and provides us with a great chart of available icons

Windows Phone Data Binding between Elements using the Designer

Waleed Arafa Al-Zoghby has a post at WindowsPhoneGeek showing how to wire up Databinding using the Designer in VS2010

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