Tag Archives: Mini-Tutorial
Page State–Step by Step
Windows Phone Tutorial The Windows Phone life cycle is not terribly complicated, but it can be the source of some confusion, and managing the life-cycle can be intimidating to new Windows Phone programmers. This posting will review the basic … Continue reading
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Windows Phone Fast Application Switching–Don’t Panic!
Windows Phone Tutorial With Mango, the Windows Phone application life cycle changes, and that is a good thing, because the change allows for Fast Application Switching (FAS). With FAS, the user can start a new application and then return to … Continue reading
Windows Phone Toolkit–Date and Time Pickers
A Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorial You have seen the Date and Time pickers in the built-in applications and you can add them to your own applications with shockingly little work. To start, follow the directions from yesterday’s posting on … Continue reading
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Windows Phone Toolkit AutoCompleteBox
A Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorial The Windows Phone Toolkit offers a number of useful controls that you can use right out of the box. This is the first in a sub-series of mini-tutorials on the Windows Phone Toolkit. From … Continue reading
LINQ Pad vs. Visual Studio for Learning LINQ
A LINQ Tutorial As noted in numerous other postings, I’m convinced that LINQ is an essential aspect of serious Windows Phone (or virtually any .NET) programming. One of the great tools to come along for learning and working with LINQ … Continue reading
Windows Phone Fundamentals–3 Ways To Handle Events
Windows Phone From Scratch One potential area of confusion for programmers new to Silverlight and Windows Phone is that there are (at least) three distinct ways to handle events. Name the event handler in the Xaml Name the event handler … Continue reading
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Removing the BackStack Entry in Windows Phone
A reader correctly complained about my posting on Sending Messages Between Pages that the “dialog” box I had created was in the BackStack. If you were to go through the dialog and then later hit the hardware back-key you would … Continue reading
Windows Phone–Sending Messages Between Pages
Windows Phone Tutorials Last week I began work on prototyping a new application as part of the Full Stack series. In this application I would like to open a dialog box, retrieve some information from the user, and return … Continue reading
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Windows Phone Fundamentals–Navigation
Windows Phone Fundamentals Continuing my mini-series on Windows Phone Fundamentals, begun here, this tutorial will cover the topic of navigating from one page to another. This is one of those tasks that are wicked simple once you know how, but … Continue reading
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Windows Phone Fundamentals–Layout
Windows Phone Fundamentals The Windows Phone From Scratch mini-tutorials are going back to the fundamentals for those who are new to Windows Phone Programming. Today, we cover basic layout with the Grid Control. The Grid control is often compared to … Continue reading
Obtaining Email, Address or Phone Number
Mango From Scratch Windows Phone Mango now has new tasks to obtain additional information from the contacts list, such as the user’s email address, snail-mail address and phone number. All of these work essentially in the same way: you create … Continue reading
Fast Application Switching Made Easy
Mango From Scratch One of the key features in Mango is Fast Application Switching. This is a radical change to the life-cycle of applications, and one of the very first things you’ll want to do, when upgrading your Windows 7 … Continue reading