Tag Archives: Mini-Tutorial
Coming In Mango–Local DB Part 2: Relationships
On May 10 I posted about the upcoming addition of SQL Server Compact Edition (CE) in Windows Phone Mango. At that time, I showed how to create the DataContext object and how to store and retrieve “flat” data. In this … Continue reading
Coming in Mango–Query the Contacts List
Mango From Scratch Coming in Mango is the ability to query the Contact List and retrieve considerably more information than was available previously. In addition to the EmailAddress Chooser Task and the PhoneNumberChooserTask Mango will include an AddressChooserTask. In addition, … Continue reading
Coming in Mango–Sql Server CE
Mango From Scratch With the forthcoming Mango release of Windows Phone (tools to be released this month) you can store structured data in a Sql Server Compact Edition (CE) database file in isolated storage (called a local database). You don’t … Continue reading
Hot and Cold Observables in Rx
Reactive Programming Continuing my intermittent series in Rx, today I take a look at Hot vs. Cold Observables in the Reactive Extensions Library.The distinction, in a nutshell, is this: Hot observables are like a river – you can dip into … Continue reading
Coming In Mango–ICommand
Mango From Scratch As noted in earlier posts, Mango represents a move from Silverlight 3+ to Silverlight 4, and with that comes ICommand on ButtonBase and Hyperlink (and classes that derive from these two). This is a significant breakthrough, especially … Continue reading
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Coming in Mango–Implicit Styles
Mango From Scratch Mango represents the upgrading of the Windows Phone Operating System from Silverlight 3+ to 4. With Silverlight 4 comes a number of very useful features, not least of which is implicit styling. With implicit styling you create … Continue reading
What’s Coming In Mango–Reminders
Mango From Scratch One of the very cool features coming in Mango is Reminders, and more generally, scheduled tasks. This allows you to set up a reminder and then exit the application. When your reminder fires you have the … Continue reading
Email a stack trace when things blow up in Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch Jon Galloway and I have been working together on The Full Stack project. This week, we’ve been banging our heads together trying to figure out why our Windows Phone application crashes on testing when submitted to … Continue reading
Breakpoints on Xaml in Silverlight 5
Silverlight 5 MiniTutorial Silverlight 5 Beta brings the enormously useful ability to set a break point in your Xaml where you have a data binding. This can greatly simplify debugging and fixing binding issues.
Implicit Data Templates (Silverlight 5)
A Silverlight 5 Mini-Tutorial A new feature in Silverlight 5 is the Implicit Data Template, which allows you to target a data template for a specific data type. Thus, you might create a class hierarchy of Messages, Direct Messages and … Continue reading
Silverlight 5–Rich Text and Overflow
A Silverlight 5 Mini-Tutorial In Silverlight 5 we introduce a new element, RichTextBoxOverflow. This allows one RichTextBox to have its contents “overflow” into another – excellent for multi-column presentation. [Click on image for full size] What is particularly nice here … Continue reading
Silverlight 5–Combo box type ahead
A nice, small feature in the new Silverlight 5 Beta is the ability to type ahead in combo boxes. This makes choosing from long list far simpler. You can see this at work by whipping up a very quick Silverlight … Continue reading