Category Archives: Data
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–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
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
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
Yet Another Podcast #29 Jon Galloway on MVC 3
Talking with Jon Galloway about ASP.NET MVC 3 and his Music Store tutorial. Jon is a Senior Community Program Manager for Microsoft and co-host of Herding Code. Jon’s Blog Herding Code MVC 3 Music Store Tutorial Listen| Return to … Continue reading
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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
Yet Another Podcast #28–Jeremy Lickness
Talking with Jeremy Lickness, Silverlight MVP, certified Silverlight Developer, Senior Consultant and PM for Wintellect and creator of the Sterling Database. Obtain Sterling Sterling User Guide Jeremy’s Blog Jeremy on twitter Listen| Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #26–Walt Ritscher
Walt is a .NET programmer and UX enthusiast. His current UI obsession includes Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and WPF APIs. His blog can be found at blog.wpfwonderland.com. Walt is also a MVP and the author of the free Shazzam Shader … Continue reading
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Asynchronous Callbacks with Rx
Reactive Programming, Posting # 8 One of the tried and true patterns in .NET programming is to call an Asynchronous service (e.g., BeginGetResponse) and to then provide a callback to a second method for when the call completes. This can … Continue reading
The Full Stack: Entity Framework To Phone, The Server Side
Part 6 in the Full Stack series in which Jon and I are building an entire application from conception to delivery that includes MVC 3 ASP.NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone. Also available on Channel 9
Reactive Extensions–Observable Sequences are First Class Objects
Windows Phone From Scratch #28 In yesterdays’ posting on Asynchronous programming with Reactive Extensions I created a browser application that reacted to user input into a TextBox. You will remember that the observable was created from the TextChanged event as … Continue reading
