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Category Archives: Data
Yet Another Podcast #58–Julie Lerman and EF/CF
Talking with Julie Lerman about Entity Framework and Code-First. Julie’s blog Julie’s Book website Microsoft Entity Framework Developer Center EF Team Blog Domain Driven Design Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
Binding Formatting
Windows Phone Tutorial When you are binding data there are additional properties that allow you to format the display and to handle errors and null values. The StringFormat property allows you to add any standard .NET format string that matches … Continue reading
The Full Stack, Phase 2–Overview
Windows Phone Tutorial Last year Jon Galloway and I launched the Full Stack experiment,in which we video-documented the creation of a nontrivial application. Today we begin the second phase of this experiment, building a new application that will have implementations … Continue reading
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Windows Phone WCF OData Client
Windows Phone Tutorial In a recent posting I showed how to create a quick OData service using Entity-Framework Code-First and SQLCE4. In this posting I’ll show how to create a simple Windows Phone client to interact with that service.
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Creating an OData Server Quickly
Windows Phone Tutorial There are numerous ways to access data from Web Services. To explore these we need a simple server that exposes data we can interact with from a Windows Phone Application. To facilitate this, we’ll build an ASP.NET/MVC … Continue reading
DataBinding to Custom Properties
Windows Phone Tutorial In a recent three part mini-series I showed how to create a Xaml program from scratch. In the third part of the series I showed how the values are computed for display, but I glossed over how … Continue reading
Building a Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 3 of 3
Windows Phone Tutorial In Part 1 of this mini-series we created the layout for a calculator. In Part 2, we filled in the event handlers for the buttons. In this third and final part we’ll review the code for the … Continue reading
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Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 2
Windows Phone Tutorial In Part 1 of this mini-series we created the layout for a calculator. In this part, we’ll take a look at the event handlers required to make the buttons works. When the user clicks a button an … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast–Silverlight Passion
Talking with Andrei Kashcha about his passion for Silverlight and the data visualization projects he has created. Amazon Books visualization Viva Mind-map visualization Lab 49 Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
Dependency Properties
Windows Phone Tutorial Dependency properties are like the sewers, electric wires and pipes running under the streets of a big city. You can ignore them, you can even be oblivious to their existence, but they make all the magic happen … Continue reading
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Location Services–Using the Emulator
Windows Phone Tutorial Getting your device’s location takes remarkably little code. The new emulator that comes with Mango makes it possible to test location services without adding a GPS to your desktop computer and putting it in your car, thus … Continue reading
Windows Phone Toolkit–Date and Time Pickers
A Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorial You have seen the Date and Time pickers in the built-in applications and you can add them to your own applications with shockingly little work. To start, follow the directions from yesterday’s posting on … Continue reading
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