Category Archives: Essentials
Windows Phone From Scratch #4 – First Xaml
In the previous mini-tutorial in this series you created a form in which you placed a prompt and text box for the first name using Expression Blend and drag and drop. It was probably not obvious that as you created … Continue reading
Windows Phone From Scratch #3 – First Project
Open Expression Blend (which you downloaded in mini-tutorial #1) and select New Project. In the New Project dialog box, select Windows Phone in the left pane, Windows Phone Databound Application in the upper right, and name the application WPFS3. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Mini-Tutorial, WPFS
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Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorials #2: Silverlight vs XNA
You can write for Windows Phone using either Silverlight or XNA. Here are some general guidelines to help with understanding the strengths of each of the two platforms (from the Windows Phone 7 Developer Portal).
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Tagged Mini-Tutorial, WindowsPhone, WPFS
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The Full Stack – Part 1 – Building the admin site with ASP.NET MVC3, NUPack & EF Code First
I’m incredibly pleased and proud to launch The Full Stack with Jon Galloway.
Posted in Data, Essentials, Patterns & Skills, Tools and Utilities, WindowsPhone
Tagged FullStack
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The Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorials: #1: Getting Started
This is the first in the Windows From Scratch mini-tutorial series. This series assumes you have no experience with Silverlight nor with C#, nor .NET in general, but would like to learn to program the Windows Phone. Hardware and Software … Continue reading
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Tagged Mini-Tutorial, WindowsPhone, WPFS
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Great Resource For Getting Started With Silverlight
I was just at the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tool’s Launch event in Boston (listen to my live podcast from the event) and one question I received many times from folks new both to the phone and to Silverlight was … Continue reading
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Tagged GetStarted
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iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Animation and Games
This two-part tutorial is included in both An iPhone Developer’s Guide to Windows Phone 7 Programming, and Windows Phone 7 Development for Silverlight Programmers. The material is equally relevant to both and so the two series have been temporarily joined. … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, Styles and Templates, WindowsPhone
Tagged Animation, i2WTutorial, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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Essential Tools for Podcasting
I recently launched Yet Another Podcast, the culmination of a serious amount of time spent researching microphones, mixers, software and more.
Great SL Competency Test Part 3 (Answer)
This is an answer to part 3 of the Great SL Competency Test, in which you were asked to demonstrate Printing Right Mouse Click Clipboard Interaction
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Tagged BestPractices, Competency
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The Great Silverlight Competency Test – #4
This is the fourth of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
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Tagged BestPractices, Competency, Tools
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iPhone to WP7 – Diving Deeper
Go to First Tutorial In this tutorial, we’ll expand upon the work done in the previous tutorial and we’ll look more closely at a few key issues. MVVM As an iPhone Developer your thinking is adapted to and influenced by … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, iPhoneToWP7, Mini-Tutorial, WindowsPhone
Tagged convert, Data, i2WTutorial, migrate, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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Great SL Competency Test Part 1 (Answer)
On August 23rd I published part 1 of The Great Silverlight Competency Test. The key tasks were to… …write a Silverlight program mimicking a problem report system, that allows you to go to your db and call up a record … Continue reading
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Tagged BestPractices, Competency
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