Category Archives: Essentials
Windows 7.5 Video: Fast Application Switching
The latest in the “Mango Videos” series is posted.
Yet Another Podcast #58–Julie Lerman and EF/CF
Talking with Julie Lerman about Entity Framework and Code-First. Julie’s blog Julie’s Book website Microsoft Entity Framework Developer Center EF Team Blog Domain Driven Design Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
Playing A Sound, Simplified
Windows Phone Tutorial In a previous posting I discussed how to play a sound using a background process. That is great when you need the sound to continue playing even if you leave your application. But much of the time … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #56–Jeff Blankenburg: Evangelist
Talking with Jeff Blankenburg about his 31 Days of Mango series and what it means to be a Microsoft Evangelist. Jeff’s web site Migrating to Windows Phone 31 Days of Mango e-Book 31 Days of Mango Windows Telephone App Listen … Continue reading
Vibrating the phone
Windows Phone Tutorial A little vibration added to your application can be just the haptic feedback needed. It turns out that vibration is absurdly easy to add; so much so that discussions of adding vibration typically come with the caveat … Continue reading
Binding Formatting
Windows Phone Tutorial When you are binding data there are additional properties that allow you to format the display and to handle errors and null values. The StringFormat property allows you to add any standard .NET format string that matches … Continue reading
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
Yet Another Podcast #55–David Plat on Why Software Sucks
Talking with David Platt, author of Why Software Sucks about software design, both good and bad David’s Web Site Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
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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Yet Another Podcast #54–Damian Edwards on ASP.NET
Talking with Damian Edwards and Jon Galloway about the evolution of ASP.NET Web Forms, what’s coming in the new Preview and the three UI platforms built on top of ASP.NET Core. Damian is the Program Manager responsible for ASP.NET Web … Continue reading
