Category Archives: Essentials
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
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
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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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
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
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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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