Category Archives: Essentials
Secondary Tiles– Part 1: Creation
Mango From Scratch Tiles come in two flavors: Application Tiles and Secondary Tiles. The secondary tile is always created programmatically, typically based on an interaction with the user. Secondary tiles are often used to provide user-specific data such as the … Continue reading
Full Stack #11–We’ve Been Busy
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Managing the Back Stack
Mango From Scratch In a previous posting, I discussed creating Reminders. One little known feature of reminders is that you can click on the Reminder to return to the original application (the application in which you set the Reminder). For … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #36 Mary Jo Foley
Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years, and has been following Microsoft for the past ten years. She has written for ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline among other publications and web sites and is the author of … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Essentials, Mobile, News, Opinion, Podcast, Silverlight 5, WindowsPhone
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The Full Stack–Accidentally Pair Programming and Writing Unit Tests
In this episode of The Full Stack, Jesse and Jon continue their reboot of the windows phone client project. Having set up an MVVM application and decided on using a repository pattern on the phone that mirrors the server’s repository, … Continue reading
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Best Practices For Local Databases
Mango From Scratch I’ve recently written two posts about coding for SQL CE in Mango (the next release of Windows Phone). Sean McKenna, who knows more about this than anyone walking the planet, dropped me an email to remind me … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Essentials, Linq, Mango, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
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Yet Another Podcast #34–MVC3 & NuGet
Talking with Phil Haack (Program Manager for MVC3 and NuGet) and Jon Galloway – what are MVC and NuGet, what are their strengths and limitations and how do you lean to use them? Listen | Return to Yet Another … Continue reading
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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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Developing for Windows Phone?? Bookmark This Site
My colleagues in Developer Guidance have created 22 topic/scenario-focused web pages on App Hub, the Windows Phone developer website, that provide a comprehensive view of all the resources available for Windows Phone development. The pages are self-contained, single-page search targets, … Continue reading
Tooling in Mango
The big news at Mix this year was the upcoming release of Mango – the next generation for Windows Phone. Among the many exciting new features were a few new tooling capabilities that will change the way you write your … Continue reading
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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.