Category Archives: Patterns & Skills

Yet Another Podcast #58–Julie Lerman and EF/CF

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

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

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Calling Navigate From The View Model

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Mini-Tutorial In the third part of the MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts (part 1 is here) I started with an application that had two pages, and a button on the first that was to cause a navigation … Continue reading →

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DecryptR Part 2

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

In a recent post, I discussed the DecryptR application I have been toying with.  While the fundamentals are working, there is much to do.  Today I’ll make a few minor improvements. First, let’s set the font in the list box … Continue reading →

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DecryptR–A Glass House Application

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

  Periodically, I like to build a “glass house” application – that is one which I document as I go, hiding nothing and showing all the thinking that goes into the application as well as the raw, not ready-for-production code … Continue reading →

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Context Menu

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Tutorial The Silverlight For Windows Phone Toolkit is a magnificent collection of controls and utilities for writing Windows Phone applications.  Unfortunately, there is little or no documentation, and the samples, while wonderful, are quite complex.  At times, it … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Page Transitions (Practically) Free

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Tutorial I don’t just mean you don’t pay for the code, or the control, I mean we’re talking about 2 minutes of effort.  No joke. Step 1 is to download the November Windows Phone Toolkit and install it

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Yet Another Podcast #54–Damian Edwards on ASP.NET

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Damian Edwards and Jon Galloway about the evolution of ASP.NET Web Forms, what’s coming in the new Preview and the three UI platforms built on top of ASP.NET Core. Damian is the Program Manager responsible for ASP.NET Web … Continue reading →

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Test Driven Development–Testing Private Values

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Jon Galloway and I are embarking on the next phase of our Full Stack project and building a Pomodoro timer.  We are (at lest for now) doing this using Test Driven Development.  This immediately raised an interesting issue, which I … Continue reading →

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Spiking the Pomodoro Timer

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

I recently wrote about the beginning of phase 2 of the Full Stack project, in which we are building a Pomodoro timer (see also).  To get started, I decided to “spike” a quick and dirty version, if only to explore … Continue reading →

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The Full Stack, Phase 2–Overview

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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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Yet Another Podcast #48–Adam Kinney and HTML 5

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Adam Kinney about HTML 5 and the role of the UI Integrator Adam’s web site Adam on Twitter PixelLab Agent 8 Ball Adam’s How Do I Videos   Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST

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