Category Archives: Patterns & Skills

Building a Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 3 of 3

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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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Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Tutorial In this and the next few blog posts, we will build an application from scratch; covering all the details along the way.  The application we’re going to build is a simple four function calculator. We’ll build it … Continue reading →

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Dependency Properties

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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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Bing Maps Task

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

You’ve seen in previous Windows Phone Mini-tutorials that all tasks have the same basic structure: Instantiate the task Add any specifying data Show the task The Bing Maps Task is no different. In fact, it is so simple to use … Continue reading →

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Mango’s New Accelerometer Emulator

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Tutorial Mango brings a new extended emulator with emulation of the accelerometer. This allows you to test applications that use the accelerometer within the emulator before doing your final testing on the device. (Previously you had to pick … Continue reading →

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Page State–Step by Step

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Tutorial The Windows Phone life cycle is not terribly complicated, but it can be the source of some   confusion, and managing the life-cycle can be intimidating to new Windows Phone programmers.  This posting will review the basic … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone Toolkit–Date and Time Pickers

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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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Windows Phone Fundamentals–3 Ways To Handle Events

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone From Scratch One potential area of confusion for programmers new to Silverlight and Windows Phone is that there are (at least) three distinct ways to handle events.  Name the event handler in the Xaml Name the event handler … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #42–Colin Blair and RIA Services

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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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Windows Phone–Sending Messages Between Pages

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Tutorials Last week I began work on prototyping a new application as part of the Full Stack series.   In this application I would like to open a dialog box, retrieve some information from the user, and return … Continue reading →

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