Category Archives: Data

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

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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

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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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Yet Another Podcast #44–Charles Petzold

Talking with Charles Petzold about writing, computers and his career. Charles Petzold is the author of numerous books, including Programming Windows, Code, The Annotated Turing, and Programming Windows Phone Charles Petzold’s Web Site Ada’s Technical Books Any sufficiently advanced technology … Continue reading

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LINQ Pad vs. Visual Studio for Learning LINQ

A LINQ Tutorial As noted in numerous other postings, I’m convinced that LINQ is an essential aspect of serious Windows Phone (or virtually any .NET) programming.  One of the great tools to come along for learning and working with LINQ … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #43–Sean McKenna and Windows Phone Data

Talking with Sean McKenna, Senior Program Manager on the Windows Phone Application Platform Team, about structured data, databases and much more. Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST

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Yet Another Podcast #42–Colin Blair and RIA Services

Talking with Colin Blair, Microsoft MVP, about RIA Services and WCF  Colin’s Blog RIA Services page RIA/JS Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST

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LINQ: The overloaded Contains Operator

A LINQ Tutorial As part of my continuing (and occasional) series of mini-tutorials on LINQ this posting will consider the overloaded Contains operator. This operator allows you to check whether a list contains a given value, as illustrated in the … Continue reading

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Fast Switching and Page State in Mango

Mango From Scratch Mango introduces fast application switching.  To implement this feature a new stage in the lifecycle has been added: Dormant.  Applications are put in the dormant state when the user navigates forward, away from the application (e.g., using … Continue reading

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The Full Stack, Part 12: Adding photo support to our Windows Phone app – Capture, storage, and display

We walk through the code we used to add photo support to the WhoIsThat application, including: Using the Camera chooser  Restoring application state after the photo is taken  Decoding and displaying the image  Storing and retrieving the image

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Yet Another Podcast #37 Silverlight HTML5 & Developers Part 2

Part 2 of a conversation with Shawn Wildermuth, president of Agilitrain and author of the forthcoming  book Essential Windows Phone 7 about Mix, Silverlight, Windows Phone, HTML5 and the state of .NET development Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading

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