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Now that Windows 8 and Visual Studio are in RTM I wanted to put together a quick entry for those Windows Phone developers making the transition to Windows 8 development with their MVVM Light skills. Laurent Bugnion, is the creator of the MVVM Light toolkit and I, as well as many others, have been using this for Windows Phone development for a while now.  I am porting on of my applications to Windows 8 and wanted to take the knowledge of this toolkit to the new platform hoping that there were either some new enhancements and/or not many changes so that I could just go.  Well that was the deal. MVVM Light Toolkit for Windows 8 RTM...

This past Friday I attended a Windows Phone Developer event put on by Rich Dunbar, who is a Nokia Developer Ambassador, here in Orlando. I have exchanged some tweets and emails with Rich in the past and watched some feedback from some of the previous events he had put on in the past; and I'll tell you the reviews had been good.Rich is running a great program.  Develop your first application for Windows Phone and get a free App Hub token ($99 value) and once your application is available in the marketplace, he'll send you a Windows Phone 7 device.  Not too bad right?  Well, I'll tell you it's a legit deal.The event was a starter for sure,...

So here we are, the good stuff. When do we have to be done and what the heck do we get if we win? Dates Start NOW, if you have not signed up please do so here. This is important, I need your valid email address so that I can get you the API developer key for Dark Sky.Next, apps must be submitted in completion no later than 10/1/2012.  This give us time to review them, get them loaded on or devices etc.  If you publish them to the Marketplace please send me the links so that we can get them downloaded.  If they are paid applications, please send us the .xap or provide a download link...