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.
In this tutorial we will build a meaningful, and nontrivial Windows phone 7 application. This will give us the opportunity to explore layout controls, interactive controls, Visual Studio and a good bit more.
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The application that we’ll be developing in the next phase of the HVP will allow the user to record and then look up everything that happened from day to day.
There has been some thrashing about the HyperVideo player. This note is both an update and an invitation for you to participate.
It makes me a little crazy that every time the markets go up or down the newspapers cannot resist attributing a reason (though they’re not so good at predicting!). Today’s NY Tim
es: “Markets down 2% on concerns about slowing economy.” Oh Yeah? How do they know that’s the reason? Maybe it is the cost of oil, the situation in the middle east, unemployment, gamma waves… So I decided to try an experiment: let’s predict up or down randomly, and give reasons, and we’ll see how well we do.
Now, I believe in modeling that ADHD and other such things are nothing to be ashamed of. Simple brain chemistry; doesn’t make you a bad person. But what many folks don’t realize is that ADHD involves hyper-focus as much as inattention, and so setting off to build a simple random number generator… well the truth is I already have one. But what a great opportunity to build a Win Phone Application. So, I got this working in 20 minutes. And then tinkered for a few hours.
As promised in the course outline, this tutorial begins the discussion of lists and of presenting the ubiquitous Master/Detail relationship in data.
To do this, we’ll revisit the Nerd Dinner application, this time using the Beta Refresh and making sure we focus on best practices, especially the use of MVVM, as we go.
