Tag Archives: Mini-Tutorial
Windows Phone From Scratch #5 – Data Binding
Databinding is a somewhat advanced topic, typically covered in the second or even the final third of most Silverlight books. We’re going to tackle it in the next couple mini-tutorials because It isn’t difficult to understand It isn’t difficult to … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, iPhoneToWP7, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged Mini-Tutorial, WindowsPhone
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Windows Phone From Scratch #4 – First Xaml
In the previous mini-tutorial in this series you created a form in which you placed a prompt and text box for the first name using Expression Blend and drag and drop. It was probably not obvious that as you created … Continue reading
Windows Phone From Scratch #3 – First Project
Open Expression Blend (which you downloaded in mini-tutorial #1) and select New Project. In the New Project dialog box, select Windows Phone in the left pane, Windows Phone Databound Application in the upper right, and name the application WPFS3. The … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged Mini-Tutorial, WPFS
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Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorials #2: Silverlight vs XNA
You can write for Windows Phone using either Silverlight or XNA. Here are some general guidelines to help with understanding the strengths of each of the two platforms (from the Windows Phone 7 Developer Portal).
Posted in Essentials, Mini-Tutorial, WindowsPhone
Tagged Mini-Tutorial, WindowsPhone, WPFS
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The Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorials: #1: Getting Started
This is the first in the Windows From Scratch mini-tutorial series. This series assumes you have no experience with Silverlight nor with C#, nor .NET in general, but would like to learn to program the Windows Phone. Hardware and Software … Continue reading
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Tagged Mini-Tutorial, WindowsPhone, WPFS
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iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Tutorial: Objective-C, C#, Xaml
[ Link to First Tutorial ] While there is much you can “pick up as you go” if you are an Objective-C programmer, understanding some of the fundamental differences in C# can save you a great deal of time and … Continue reading
Posted in iPhoneToWP7, Languages, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged C#, i2WTutorial, Mini-Tutorial, wp7Tutorial
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Tag-based Feeds
In this posting I will show how to create Feedburner feeds based on queries in Word Press using the Feedburner plugins.
Posted in Community, News, Tools and Utilities
Tagged BestPractices, Community, Mini-Tutorial, Tools
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You May Already Be A Windows Phone 7 Programmer – Reloaded
As mentioned in the first post in this series, I am launching a series of intensive WP7 tutorials. To get started I thought it was important to revisit this earlier post and make sure all the code is up to … Continue reading
Data Validation And Templating in Silverlight 4
This is the fifth in a series on Templates and DataValidation. [ First In Series Previous In Series ] In this and the next posting I will create an application that will demonstrate how to modify the Visual State for … Continue reading
Posted in Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Styles and Templates
Tagged Data, Mini-Tutorial, VSM
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Events and Delegates Under The Hood – Q&A
In the comments from this morning’s post, Andrew raised two questions important enough that I wanted to answer them in a post, rather than in comments…. [In the original version of the posting] you had some code showing that you … Continue reading
Events and Delegates Under The Hood – Reposted
Many programmers come to Silverlight with little prior experience with C#, and thus conceptualize events as a response to an action that is “hooked up” using somewhat arbitrary syntax. All of that is fine, until it isn’t, and so this … Continue reading
Posted in Languages, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Tools and Utilities
Tagged C#, Mini-Tutorial
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Teaching An Old Control New Tricks With Templates
This is the fourth in a short series on Templates and DataValidation. [ First In Series Previous In Series ] You will remember that in the previous post in this small series, we created a new button template with a … Continue reading