Category Archives: Essentials
Silverlight Sans Xaml?
Are we far enough along in the development of WYSIWYG tools, specifically both the design surface in Visual Studio, and even more so, Expression Blend, that the right way to teach Silverlight and Windows Phone programming is without Xaml? I … Continue reading
Creating An Application Bar–Don’t Panic
Windows Phone From Scratch #31 The application bar sits at the bottom of your Windows Phone application and provides a set of hopefully not-too-cryptic icons, along with an ellipses (…) that pops open the menu and the text associated … Continue reading
Windows Phone Design Guidelines
A fellow team-member has put together this terrific Cheat Sheet on WP7 Design Guidelines. Highly recommended.
Yet Another Podcast–Bill Wagner
Effective C# and much more with Bill Wagner Bill is a Microsoft Regional Director and the author of both Effective C# and More Effective C#. Links discussed include: Chris Marinos’ MSDN article Rich Minerich’s Blog Dianne Marsh on the history … Continue reading
Linq and Fluent Programming
A LINQ Tutorial I interviewed Bill Wagner for Yet Another Podcast while we were both at CodeMash (look for his interview to be published next week). In addition to being one of the nicest guys I know, he is also … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #21–Jeremy Miller
IOC Containers, .NET, Alt.NET and much more with Jeremy Miller Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered … Continue reading
Windows Phone From Scratch #21–Animation Without A Lick Of Code
Animation, used with restraint, can greatly enhance the user’s experience of the phone; clarifying transitions and creating useful illusions. One, discussed here previously, is the illusion of “flipping” part of the page over, perhaps to reveal a help file. In … Continue reading
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12 MORE Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers
In July I published a list of 12 Insanely Essential Utilities for Programmers. That list is still current and I’m still using every one of the twelve. The list, however, has become popular enough, and there are enough great utilities … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Essentials, Opinion, Tools and Utilities
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Entity Framework Code-First, oData & Windows Phone Client
Entity Framework Code-First is the coolest thing since sliced bread, Windows Phone is the hottest thing since Tickle-Me-Elmo and oData is just too great to ignore. As part of the Full Stack project, we wanted to put them together, which … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Essentials, Full Stack, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Tools and Utilities
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Yet Another Podcast #18 – Joe Stagner
Talking with Joe Stagner about Code Joe’s Blog Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
Posted in Essentials, Languages, Patterns & Skills, Podcast
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Windows Phone From Scratch #12–Custom Behaviors (Part I)
To fully understand how behaviors work, you need to create a couple custom Behaviors of your own. In this tutorial we’ll build a custom behavior and in the next we’ll look at a specialized form of custom behavior called a … Continue reading
Firstarter 2010 – Data Binding
I had the great pleasure of presenting the Data Binding portion of the 2010 Firestarter, joining Scott Guthrie, Yavor Georgiev, Dan Wahlin, John Papa, Tim Heuer, Mike Cook, Jossef Goldberg and Jaime Rodriguez for an amazing day. Download the slides … Continue reading
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