Month: December 2011

SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone

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Another day .. another article for SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow)! You can find all the other great SilverlightShow content @ http://silverlightshow.net.

I have been a long-time SkyDrive user. So, it was a lot of fun playing with the Live Connect API:

Guess how many people use Live Services? 500 million plus! And when our applications connect to the same services, they start feeling right at home with what our users are already used to. Microsoft recently opened the Live Connect APIs, along with some SDKs for 3rd party applications on desktop/web/mobile platforms to leverage the cloud offerings from Live Services. In this short article, we take a look at how we could get started using the Live Connect API from our Windows Phone applications and interact with SkyDrive storage through the new Live SDK.

Full article with screenshots, code samples & downloadable source code can be found HERE.

What’s special about this one? Last article of the year .. done with writing in 2011! See you on the other side 🙂

Adios!

Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData

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SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow) is a wonderful resource for daily Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 news, exclusive articles, tutorials, videos and training. I would encourage anybody interested in Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone & other related technologies to check out the SilverlightShow content @ http://silverlightshow.net.

I guest-blogged a series of 2 articles for SilverlightShow:

So, you have heard the buzz about the brave new world of Windows 8 from MSFT’s BUILD Conference! Ready to get your hands muddy? In this short 2-part article series, we talk about how to get started towards writing data-driven (specifically OData) Windows 8 Metro apps with XAML & C#. Here’s what we’ll cover:

  • Part 1 – Handling of OData from our XAML Metro App [Consumption & Updates to OData source]
  • Part 2 – How to make your XAML App a well-behaved Windows 8 citizen [Artwork, Snapped Views, Contracts, Application Bar etc]

Full article with screenshots, code samples & downloadable source code can be found @ PART 1 and PART 2.

Cheers SilverlightShow!

Adios