Tag Archives: Mini-Tutorial

Templates, Visual State and Fun With Controls

This is the third (if you count Sunday’s update!) in my short series on Templates and Data Validation. [ First In Series.  Previous In Series ] Today we’re going to create a templated  Button that changes the appearance and visual … Continue reading

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Windows Phone 7: Lists, Page Animation and oData

This is the fourth in a fast paced series on programming Windows Phone 7. In this mini-tutorial I will demonstrate how absurdly easy it is to create a master page with a list of data, and a details page to … Continue reading

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You Already Are A Windows Phone 7 Programmer

John Papa invited me on to Silverlight TV to discuss a key premise of WP7: Silverlight Programmers are instant WP7 programmers. To demonstrate this,  I created two applications side by side: a traditional Silverlight (Web) application and a WP7 application … Continue reading

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Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Programmers

This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials on Windows Phone 7 Programming for Silverlight Programmers.

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Screen Scraping – When All You Have Is A Hammer…

I had decided to create a list of what videos were already available on the Learning Pages of Silverlight.net.  When I clicked on the page for the entire list, however, I was quite daunted by the sheer number. I opened … Continue reading

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An Annotated Line of Business Application

The Silverlight HyperVideo Player has met with strong support and interest. This mini-tutorial is the first in a series that will walk through the design and delivery of this project. This series will pretend that the design existed before we … Continue reading

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WCF Ria Services For Real

In my previous post I discussed creating the database and tables for the Silverlight HVP configuration data.  All that was great, and worked just dandy until it was time to get the data from the database server to the application … Continue reading

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When Is It OK To Hack?

This mini-tutorial is part of the SLHVP documentation One of the goals of the Silverlight HyperVideo Project is to demonstrate best practices.  So when is it okay to throw in a quick hack to get things working?

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Configuration Files for Silverlight HVP

This mini-tutorial is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Project documentation. Taking Risks One of the great pleasures, and total terrors of documenting this open-source application is that occasionally I have to offer up some half-baked ideas that risk displaying how … Continue reading

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Project Turing: Beginning RIA Services

Reposted with VB.Net code From Database to DataGrid The next step in Project Turing is to create a first iteration of the Silverlight application that will retrieve data from our database.  Using our technology of choice: the Data Entity Framework … Continue reading

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Project Turing: Multiple Tables & RIA Services

Turing Project Page: [Novice: 10 | Advanced: 7 ] FAQ | Table of Contents | Definitions What is this and where do I start? In the previous listing in the Project Turing series, I examined extracting data from a single … Continue reading

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