Tag Archives: Mini-Tutorial
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
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
Context Menu
Windows Phone Tutorial The Silverlight For Windows Phone Toolkit is a magnificent collection of controls and utilities for writing Windows Phone applications. Unfortunately, there is little or no documentation, and the samples, while wonderful, are quite complex. At times, it … Continue reading
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Beautiful Page Transitions (Practically) Free
Windows Phone Tutorial I don’t just mean you don’t pay for the code, or the control, I mean we’re talking about 2 minutes of effort. No joke. Step 1 is to download the November Windows Phone Toolkit and install it
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New Mini-Tutorial Video Series
I’m very pleased to announce that I’m starting a new video series based on my mini tutorials about Windows phone mango. These will all be posted on Channel 9 and you can also find them listed alphabetically on my Windows … Continue reading
The Full Stack, Phase 2–Overview
Windows Phone Tutorial Last year Jon Galloway and I launched the Full Stack experiment,in which we video-documented the creation of a nontrivial application. Today we begin the second phase of this experiment, building a new application that will have implementations … Continue reading
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Background Audio Part II: Copying Audio Files To Isolated Storage
Windows Phone Tutorial In a previous article I showed how to use the audio background task agent to run the audio even when your application is no longer in the foreground. In that article we used audio that was downloaded … Continue reading
Background Audio
Windows Phone Tutorial When you are playing audio in your application you may not want that audio to stop when the user switches to another application. Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) brings Background Audio using the BackgroundAudioPlayer. In my previous post … Continue reading
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Migrating From WP7 to Mango–Fast Application Switching
A Windows Phone Mini-Series In part 1 of this series, I provided links to downloading and installing Windows Phone Mango. In this, part 2, I’ll provide links about one of the most important new features for Windows Phone Mango: Fast … Continue reading
Migrating From WP7 To Mango–Getting Started
A Windows Phone Mini-Series There are hundreds of great new features in Mango, and Windows Phone programmers will want that transition to be as smooth as possible. Margaret Parsons and I have been busily collecting links to articles, videos and … Continue reading
Background Agents
Windows Phone Tutorial Mango brings a number of new features to support background processing; many of which I’ll be covering in coming days and weeks. The most general of all of these is the Background Agent. Background Agents come in … Continue reading
Drag and Drop in 30 Seconds
If this doesn’t convince you that it is worthwhile to learn Blend and Behaviors… Open a new phone project in Blend and drag a shape onto the artboard (e.g., an ellipse). Click on Assets –> Behaviors and drag MouseDragElementBehavior onto … Continue reading
