In this tutorial, we’ll expand upon the work done in the previous tutorial and we’ll look more closely at a few key issues.
As an iPhone Developer your thinking is adapted to and influenced by the Model-View-Controller pattern. The very good news is that the pattern for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) development, MVVM, is very closely related to MVC.
This is the second of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
Made a quick and dirty video about it… Be sure to watch in full screen.
This begins The Great Silverlight Competency Test – an entirely arbitrary set of a dozen challenges, each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
Each of the twelve tests will appear on Monday, a viable solution will be provided 10 days later on the following Wednesday.
The solution I provide will tell you how to self-score your own solution (each on a scale of 0-100), and at the end I’ll try to provide a metric for the entire experience. 25 points for each bug you find in my code!
On the honor system you may post your scores into the book giveaway and I will give one of the top scorers a copy of the book. (Microsoft employees not eligible, void where prohibited, yadda yadda).
Please feel free to help one another by discussing the problem, ideas and questions in the comments for each exercise.
As mentioned in the first post in this series, I am launching a series of intensive WP7 tutorials. To get started I thought it was important to revisit this earlier post and make sure all the code is up to date.
[ Note, the intent is not to suggest that writing for the phone is the same as writing for the PC; they are very different platforms (see, for example, my discussion of TransMedia) but only to demonstrate that many of the coding skills you have as a Silverlight programmer will carry over, making the learning curve a good bit flatter ]
On Thursday, August 14, John Papa will air an episode of Silverlight TV in which we examine the premise that Silverlight Programmers are instant WP7 programmers. To demonstrate this, I created two applications side by side: a traditional Silverlight (Web) application and a WP7 application using the same code. (This refresh article brings the code up to the Beta release).
This is a quick update on the next steps for the HyperVideo Project that will touch on the following three sub-projects scheduled to be completed in the next six months:
Update to the web-based project (HVP v2)
Initial “port” of the HVP to Windows Phone 7 (HVP/WP7 v1)
Transmedia inspired WP7 application (HVP/WP7 v2)
The companion video to my mini-tutorial on Windows Phone 7 Animation, Master/Detail and accessing an oData web service, is now available.
