Category Archives: Essentials

Windows Phone From Scratch #3 – First Project

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

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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Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorials #2: Silverlight vs XNA

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

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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The Full Stack – Part 1 – Building the admin site with ASP.NET MVC3, NUPack & EF Code First

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

I’m incredibly pleased and proud to launch The Full Stack with Jon Galloway. 

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The Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorials: #1: Getting Started

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

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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Great Resource For Getting Started With Silverlight

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

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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iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Animation and Games

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

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 →

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Essential Tools for Podcasting

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

I recently launched Yet Another Podcast, the culmination of a serious amount of time spent researching microphones, mixers, software and more.

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Great SL Competency Test Part 3 (Answer)

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

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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The Great Silverlight Competency Test – #4

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

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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iPhone to WP7 – Diving Deeper

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

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 →

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Great SL Competency Test Part 1 (Answer)

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

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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Programmer Superstitions

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

There are a number of practices that we engage in –– no, that we cling to, and defend, and teach to others,  – that amount to magical thinking, or at best, rational failure. This is often just fine, no harm … Continue reading →

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