Category Archives: Essentials

Windows Phone Fundamentals–Navigation

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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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Yet Another Podcast #41–JQuery with Elijah Manor

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Elijah Manor, Senior Architect for appendTo: The jQuery Company and Microsoft ASP.NET MVP,  about jQuery and Javascript. Links mentioned on this show Good JavaScript Habits for C# Developers Video and Slides AppendTo’s new training site JavaScript: The Good … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone Fundamentals– Canvas & StackPanel

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Fundamentals Yesterday, I began a series of posts going back to the fundamentals of Windows Phone programming, beginning with the grid layout.  Today we examine two other layout controls: the canvas and the StackPanel. 

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Windows Phone Fundamentals–Layout

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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 →

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Fast Application Switching Made Easy

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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 →

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Send Toast Made Easy

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Mango From Scratch In a follow up to yesterday’s article about Tile Notifications, let’s take a look at sending Toast Notifications. You’ll remember that we had two projects yesterday, SendTileServer and TilesNotificationClient.  Today we’ll create SendToastServer and ToastNotificationsClient.  The parallels … Continue reading →

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Tile Notifications Made Easy

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Mango From Scratch This posting is a rip-off.  Specifically, I steal liberally from the MSDN documentation, but my goal is to mix together and distill a great deal of information down to the essentials to provide you with a clear … Continue reading →

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BingMapsTask in Mango

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Mango From Scratch It turns out that launching Bing Maps, even with Search terms and setting the zoom level is absurdly easy, using the new BingMaps task.  I used it to search for donuts in the Boston area (and came … Continue reading →

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Sterling DB vs. Local Database in Mango

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

A few weeks back I had Jeremy Likness on Yet Another Podcast discussing Sterling,  his terrific SQL database that runs on top of Isolated Storage.  Recently we announced that Mango will have Local Storage (SQL CE) on top of Isolated … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast Show 38–What’s New In Mango

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Larry Lieberman, Product Manager – Windows Phone Team, who works on the Developer Platform joins us to discuss what’s new in Mango for Consumers and for Developers.  Larry provides a vital overview of the newest features in Windows Phone. Listen … Continue reading →

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Fast Switching and Page State in Mango

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Mango From Scratch Mango introduces fast application switching.  To implement this feature a new stage in the lifecycle has been added: Dormant.  Applications are put in the dormant state when the user navigates forward, away from the application (e.g., using … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #37 Silverlight HTML5 & Developers Part 2

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Part 2 of a conversation with Shawn Wildermuth, president of Agilitrain and author of the forthcoming  book Essential Windows Phone 7 about Mix, Silverlight, Windows Phone, HTML5 and the state of .NET development Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading →

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