A collection of 5 posts
Dan Wahlin and I have updated our Introduction to Windows 8 Applications course with Pluralsight [http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/win8-intro]. The updates include 2 entirely new modules on building both HTML/JS apps and XAML apps with Visual Studio 2012. [http://pluralsight
[http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/dwahlin/image_26380E21.png] This is a Windows 8 XAML/C# Fundamentals presentation I gave at the Spring 2012 DevConnections [http://devconnections.com/] conference in Las Vegas. It covers some of the key topics you need to know to get started building Windows 8 XAML
As always, this week at DevConnections was a blast. Great people, great talks, great time … great conference. Thanks to all of you who came to my talks. I’ve made the slides available from my 3 sessions below. I hope to see you at the next DevConnections in March [http://devconnections.com/home.aspx
Short version: My family and I are moving back to Florida, I’m leaving Microsoft, heading to Disney World, and we’re doing it to be near family. I’ll still be VERY active in the community and hopefully with Microsoft [https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/media/Windows-Live-Writer/All-Good-
This week on Silverlight TV, Sundara Kumar and Mark Harper work on the new custom markup extensions (CME) feature in Silverlight 5 [http://jpapa.me/sltv82] . They explain how CME's allow you to extend XAML so that you can run any custom code. These guys (along with some other members of the team
