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Windows Dev News for March 14, 2012 - #0050

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In This Issue: Yasser Makram, Dennis Doomen, Tim Heuer, Diederik Krols, Pete Brown, Jeremy Likness, Michael Crump, Alex Golesh, Christian Schormann and Pam Keesey , Dan Wahlin, Eric Law, Sumit Dutta, and Andrea Boschin( -2-).

Above The Fold:

W8 DeepZoom:	"Using SeaDragon Ajax to Display DeepZoom Content in Windows8 Apps" Yasser Makram
Metro XAML:	"Building a deployable custom control for XAML Metro style apps" Tim Heuer
Metro XAML:	"A Radial Gauge custom control for Windows 8 Metro" Diederik Krols
Windows 8:	"My Unofficial Tips for Remoting into a Windows 8 Machine from Windows 7 (plus: Microsoft Account tips)" Pete Brown
Metro:	"Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta - Customizing Settings Charm (Part 4/11)" Alex Golesh

Shoutouts:

Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up

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

Don't forget my PluralSight 1-month pass Giveaway

From WindowsDevNews:

Using SeaDragon Ajax to Display DeepZoom Content in Windows8 Apps

Yasser Makram explains how to use SeaDragon Ajax in Windows 8 to get DeepZoom content .. good stuff

About the future of the Silverlight Cookbook

Dennis Doomen is requesting opinions about his continuation of Silverlight Cookbook.. take the poll

Building a deployable custom control for XAML Metro style apps

Tim Heuer has an excellent post about building custom controls for XML Metro and making them consumable

A Radial Gauge custom control for Windows 8 Metro

Diederik Krols followed up Tim Heuer's XAML Metro Custom control post with this one duplicating Colin Eberhardt's radial gauge

My Unofficial Tips for Remoting into a Windows 8 Machine from Windows 7 (plus: Microsoft Account tips)

Pete Brown has a grat post up about remote desktoping into your W8 box from your W7 one

Understanding the Portable Library by Chasing ICommand (2 of 3)

In Jeremy Likness' part 2 of his series he's referencing the assembly he built last time in Silverlight and WPF, with explanation

A Few Additional Options Inside the Windows Simulator in VS11 Beta

Michael Crump digs into the Windows Simulator in VS11 concentrating on new things in the CP

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta - Customizing Settings Charm (Part 4/11)

Alex Golesh's Part 4 of his series on Win8 and VS11 is on using the Settings Charm and customizing it for your app

Blend Tutorial Part 9: Build and Run Your App Memory Game

Christian Schormann and Pam Keesey's 9th and last episode in their 'build a game in Blend' series is on building and running the app

Creating Metro Style Icons with Metro Studio

Dan Wahlin shares about a great tool (and give-away) by Syncfusion for Metro Icons... get yours now

Revisiting Fiddler and Windows 8 Metro-style applications

Eric Law discusses a new version of Fiddler that runs natively on the .NETv4 framework, giving us Windows 8 folks the ability to run Fiddler without dealing with older versions ... check out the comments too

Part 62 - Windows Phone 7 - pubCenter Setup for app

Sumit Dutta's part 62 is about setting up your apps in Microsoft pubCenter... looks like this is WP7 and Win8

Download Silverlight & WP7 RFB Library

Andrea Boschin announced the release of his Remote Framebuffer connections libraries under Creative Commons license, and also highlights a new version of his SilverVNC

Consume JSON with Windows Phone: a seamless solution

Andrea Boschin demonstrates in words and code how to use a JSON service in your WP7 app

Stay in the 'Light!