Talking with Michael Crump about The Ten Things Silverlight Programmers Should 
Know About Windows 8 – based on a number of presentations Michael has been giving lately on Win8.
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Talking with John Papa and Jon Galloway about Javascript, JavaScript 
libraries and JavaScript patterns.
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While ListBox and ComboBox continue to work in Windows 8, their use is discouraged. They are not designed well for touch input and there are new and more powerful controls in WinRT that you can use instead; specifically the ListView and the GridView.
ListView and GridView both derive from ListViewBase, and neither adds any properties, methods or events; thus they are nearly identical. The key difference is that ListView is typically used for vertical scrolling, while GridView makes a grid that is typically scrolled horizontally.
Let’s start with something relatively easy… navigating between pages in Windows 8.
Create a new application in Visual Studio 11. Add two BlankPages to the application, naming the first Page1.xaml and the second (you guessed it) Page2.xaml.
As part of my new work for Telerik, and in preparation for writing a book on Windows 8 XAML programming for APress, I’ve been digging into Win 8.
Rather than waiting for it all to become clear, I’ve decided to start blogging about what I’m learning as I go. That will make for some scattershot posts, but it will also, I hope, capture some of the fundamentals that might otherwise be glossed over.
Talking with Shawn Wildermuth about Windows 8 Development. 
Shawn Wildermuth is a nine-time Microsoft MVP (Data), member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and an author of seven books and dozens of articles on software development.
Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including TechEd, Oredev, SDC, VSLive, WinDev, MIX, DevTeach, DevConnections and DevReach.
He is currently teaching workshops around the country through his training company AgiliTrain. He can also be reached via his blog.
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Talking with Joe Stagner about Mozilla and open source 
software and the open source culture.
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Talking with Phil Japikse about Agile programming. 
An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, developing software for over 20 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil works as the Agile Practices Evangelist for Telerik’s Agile Project Management Division, serves as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, and is the host of the Zero To Agile podcast .
Phil founded Agile Conferences, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to advancing agile in all aspects of software development. Phil also serves as Cub Master for his sons’ Cub Scout Pack, volunteers for the National Ski Patrol, and is a recently retired Firefighter/Paramedic. You can follow Phil on twitter and read his blog
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XAML Evangelist at Telerik.
My experiences at Microsoft were terrific, and I had the opportunity to meet and come to know some great and very bright folks.
I had the chance to work with the Silverlight community from its formative days, and to see XAML become a crucial markup language for Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone 7 and much more.
Now I am very much looking forward to my new job at Telerik, where my focus will be on all things XAML: Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone and Windows 8.
Like many of you, I’ve not only been blown away by the Telerik controls, but I’ve been impressed by the culture at Telerik. I’ve spent quite a bit of time with Telerik evangelists at conferences, and consider some to be personal friends. My recent talk at DevReach in Bulgaria gave me the opportunity to visit their world headquarters and meet some of the senior management. In addition, I’m looking forward to working with Chris Sells who also recently moved from Microsoft to Telerik.
I need your help
I’m going to continue to speak at user groups and conferences and to blog and in general to interact with the community. Part of that, for example, will be contributing to Telerik’s XAMLflix blog series. As I do, please let me know what you like about Telerik’s XAML products and what you don’t like, what we should do more of and what new things we should be doing.
Telerik already has forums, online customer support, blog posts and voting – please continue to use those, but in addition, feel free to reach out to me directly about Telerik’s XAML products.
jesseliberty@gmail.com or @jesseliberty (twitter)
Talking with Steve Sanderson, John Papa and Jon Galloway about Knockout.js
and client side JavaScript programming.
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The Windows Phone 7.1 SDK (formerly known as Mango) includes a new extended 
emulator that allows you to see the effect of moving the phone when using the accelerometer.
We’ll draw a dot in the center of the phone screen, and then move that dot by “tilting” and “rotating” the emulated phone.
The latest in the “Mango Videos” series is posted.
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