Tag Archives: Mini-Tutorial
Tombstoning and MVVM
We’re working pretty hard to get the Who Is That (Full Stack) Windows Phone application ready. Today I took a look at tombstoning and realized that this was not going to be quite as easy as I thought… and worse, … Continue reading
LinqPad, Linq Queries and IEnumerable
This posting is part of an on-going series on LINQ – a critical tool for both Windows Phone and Silverlight Programmers. I recently discovered LinqPad, a free utility developed by Joseph Albahari that supports Linq to Objects, Linq to SQL, … Continue reading
Application Bar Buttons Are Null
Windows Phone From Scratch #50 In a recent posting, I demonstrated how easy it is to add buttons to the phone’s Application Bar. I went back to that application to disable the “faster” button when the maximum speed was reached. … Continue reading
Double Dutch Double Touch
Windows Phone From Scratch #49 In my previous posting, I demonstrated how to register a touch (or tap) on Windows Phone. Today I will extend that to implement Double-Touch. To begin, I need to go back to the original Touch … Continue reading
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Windows Phone: Touch
Windows Phone From Scratch #48 A key gesture for Windows Phone users is the tap or touch on the screen. Many controls have built-in support for the touch (e.g., the button) converting the touch to an existing click event. Other … Continue reading
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Linq: SelectMany
Windows Phone From Scratch #47 A LINQ Tutorial SelectMany is a crucial operator in both LINQ and in Reactive Extensions. It may be easier to see what it does by focusing on LINQ, as most of us are more familiar … Continue reading
Adding an Application Bar
Windows Phone From Scratch #46 In a recent posting I wrote about creating Conway’s Life for the phone. The application is a tinkerer’s playhouse and I find myself going back to it to add features and tweaks. This morning I … Continue reading
Coding For Fun: Conway’s Life
Windows Phone From Scratch #45 I was feeling a bit restless yesterday, so I decided to see if I couldn’t get a first approximation of Conway’s Life cellular automaton up and running on Windows Phone. I gave myself 1 hour … Continue reading
Deferred Execution in LINQ
A LINQ Tutorial As part of my on-going exploration of technologies related to programming Silverlight and Windows Phone, I’ve been exploring LINQ in some detail. Today, I’d like to take a look at how LINQ queries are executed; specifically focusing … Continue reading
From Android to Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch #43 This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials and related content on moving applications from Android to Windows Phone. To get us started, let’s take a look at a simple Android application that takes … Continue reading
Testing Network Availability
Windows Phone From Scratch #42 We would like to live in a world in which any time you turn your phone on the network is there, full strength. We’d also like to live in a world of peace and … Continue reading
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Silverlight Unit Test For Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch #41 There has been some confusion about how to make the Silverlight Unit Tests work on Windows Phone. The latest release of the Silverlight Unit Tests comes with the Silverlight Toolkit, and it targeted at … Continue reading
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