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Great days and lot of new tools for Metro XAML developers on Windows 8.

Callisto is a new library of controls and helpers (including SQLite support) for Windows 8 XAML applications (aka Metro style apps) developed by Tim Heuer (@timheuer) and Morten Nielsen (@dotmorten).

Click here to access the project and download the new bits!

Enjoy

The “Windows Runtime (WinRT) XAML Toolkit” is a new resource containing a set of controls and helpers for building Windows 8 Store applications.

Click here to read the details and access the download link on CodePlex.

New to Windows 8 development? Mark your calendars: the new book “Programming Windows, Sixth edition” by Charles Petzold is coming soon!

Happy XAMLing everyone

I’ve just published on CodePlex and the Expression gallery a new release of the Multi-Touch behaviors including these new features:

• support for Windows Phone 7.1 Beta 2 (refresh) “Mango”;
• added new property “IgnoredTypes” for excluding particular control types from the manipulations (thanks to Richie for the suggestions, feedback and code samples);
• the “Manipulation Processor” and “Inertia Processor” are now exposed by the behavior in order to enable personalized manipulations and gestures;
• new properties: CenterX, CenterY, Rotation, Scale permit to support custom gestures like “DoupleTap” zoom;
• Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7.1 samples updated with a simple ”DoubleTap” zoom example using the new exposed properties.

The source code and samples are available for download here.

Happy Silverlighting!

Today I’ve finally found some time to make modifications in the “MEF MVVM” project on Codeplex in order to:

• create a new module using WCF RIA Services and dynamically load this it inside the “MEF module container” described in the previous post;
• use the INavigationContentLoader interface and MEF Metadata to share the same container for the various “MEF Modules”;
• use the new Cosmopolitan theme available for Silverlight Navigation applications;
• refactor the code of the ViewModel base class using the one available in the latest Prism drops;
• refactor unit tests inserting an apposite Mock service.

The source code is available for download on Codeplex.

Happy Silverlighting!

Some time ago I’ve started a Codeplex project dedicated to multi-touch, available on Codeplex at http://multitouch.codeplex.com.

The goal of this project is to provide an unified interface for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7 in order to provide multi-touch support using a visual approach via the concept of Behavior available in Expression Blend.

Recently I had the honor to welcome in the project a pillar of the Silverlight community, Laurent Bugnion, who is working on the Windows Phone 7 version of the Behavior:

Laurent has just published on his blog two awesome videos to get started with this new Behavior, and has created a specific section on his site http://www.galasoft.ch/touch to announce updates and publish content.

A special thanks to Pete Blois of the Expression Blend team for his help and contributions.

Stay tuned as we’ll be posting updates very soon

Happy Silverlighting!

If you are looking for a rich toolbar control for Silverlight, check out this project on CodePlex by Silverlight MVP Braulio Diez and Sebastian Stehle:

http://wintoolbar.codeplex.com/

MonoTouch is the Mono edition for iPhone and iPod. It will enable developers to compile for these devices taking advantage of the iPhone APIs and reusing .NET skills.

As reported in the roadmap, version 2.0 should contain a Silverlight to iPhone compiler

Check out the project site: http://mono-project.com/MonoTouch

One of the cool new features available in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is the possibility to use Multi Targeting in order to build solutions for Mono: read here the detailed instructions by Jonathan Pobst.

As you can see, this blog is powered by WordPress.

Recently Tim Heuer, Juergen Oberngruber and Peter Loebel have created a Silverlight for WordPress plugin which permits to embed Silverlight applications into blog posts.

To use it follow these simple steps:

• download the plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/silverlight-for-wordpress/
• unzip it and copy it in your ./wp-content/plugins folder
• go to your Dashboard and enable the plugin from the “Plugins” section

And this is the Silverlight Toolkit Controls sample running in WordPress and hosted on a LAMP platform:

More details are available in this post by Tim Heuer.

Enjoy!

Click here to read the article.