Author Archives: Jesse Liberty

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

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Playing A Sound, Simplified

Windows Phone Tutorial In a previous posting I discussed how to play a sound using a background process.  That is great when you need the sound to continue playing even if you leave your application. But much of the time … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #57–Kendo UI

I spoke with Burke Holland, Kendo UI Evangelist, and Todd Anglin, VP of HTML5 Tools for Telerik about their new platform for creating HTML5/JQuery applications: Kendo UI. http://twitter.com/toddanglin http://twitter.com/burkeholland HTML5 Playground Less To CSS Generator PhoneGap – Build Native Mobile … Continue reading

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Full Stack Resumes–MVVM Design

The Full Stack project resumes with a bang as Jon Galloway and I talk with John Papa about MVVM design.

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New Videos Uploaded

I’ve recently uploaded a number of new Videos in the Windows Phone 7.5 video series.  The two most recent (uploaded today) are on persisting an image and navigation within an MVVM application.

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Calling Navigate From The View Model

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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Yet Another Podcast #56–Jeff Blankenburg: Evangelist

Talking with Jeff Blankenburg about his 31 Days of Mango series and what it means to be a Microsoft Evangelist.  Jeff’s web site Migrating to Windows Phone 31 Days of Mango e-Book 31 Days of Mango Windows Telephone App Listen … Continue reading

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Vibrating the phone

Windows Phone Tutorial A little vibration added to your application can be just the haptic feedback needed. It turns out that vibration is absurdly easy to add; so much so that discussions of adding vibration typically come with the caveat … Continue reading

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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

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DecryptR Part 2

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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Yet Another Podcast #55–David Plat on Why Software Sucks

Talking with David Platt, author of Why Software Sucks about software design, both good and bad David’s Web Site   Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST

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DecryptR–A Glass House Application

  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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