Category Archives: Mango

Beautiful Page Transitions (Practically) Free

Windows Phone Tutorial I don’t just mean you don’t pay for the code, or the control, I mean we’re talking about 2 minutes of effort.  No joke. Step 1 is to download the November Windows Phone Toolkit and install it

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A Dozen Windows Phone Videos… And Counting

Video #12 was recently posted to The Mango Videos on Channel 9 – this a short video on Reminders in Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango).

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Spiking the Pomodoro Timer

I recently wrote about the beginning of phase 2 of the Full Stack project, in which we are building a Pomodoro timer (see also).  To get started, I decided to “spike” a quick and dirty version, if only to explore … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #52–Peter Torr on Windows Phone Multitasking

Peter Torr joins Jon Galloway and me to discuss multi-tasking, background agents, the backstack and other new features in Mango. Peter’s Blog Back Means Back   Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST

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The Full Stack, Phase 2–Overview

Windows Phone Tutorial Last year Jon Galloway and I launched the Full Stack experiment,in which we video-documented the creation of a nontrivial application. Today we begin the second phase of this experiment, building a new application that will have implementations … Continue reading

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Background Audio Part II: Copying Audio Files To Isolated Storage

Windows Phone Tutorial In a previous article I showed how to use the audio background task agent to run the audio even when your application is no longer in the foreground. In that article we used audio that was downloaded … Continue reading

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Background Audio

Windows Phone Tutorial When you are playing audio in your application you may not want that audio to stop when the user switches to another application.  Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) brings Background Audio using the BackgroundAudioPlayer. In my previous post … Continue reading

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Migrating From WP7 to Mango–Fast Application Switching

A Windows Phone Mini-Series In part 1 of this series, I provided links to downloading and installing Windows Phone Mango.  In this, part 2, I’ll provide links about one of the most important new features for Windows Phone Mango: Fast … Continue reading

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Migrating From WP7 To Mango–Getting Started

A Windows Phone Mini-Series There are hundreds of great new features in Mango, and Windows Phone programmers will want that transition to be as smooth as possible.  Margaret Parsons and I have been busily collecting links to articles, videos and … Continue reading

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Background Agents

Windows Phone Tutorial Mango brings a number of new features to support background processing; many of which I’ll be covering in coming days and weeks.  The most general of all of these is the Background Agent. Background Agents come in … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #50–Rob Cameron: What’s New In Windows 7.5 (Mango)

Talking with Rob Cameron, Architect Evangelist for Microsoft, and APress author of Pro Windows Phone 7 Development. Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST

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Drag and Drop in 30 Seconds

If this doesn’t convince you that it is worthwhile to learn Blend and Behaviors… Open a new phone project in Blend and drag a shape onto the artboard (e.g., an ellipse). Click on Assets –> Behaviors and drag  MouseDragElementBehavior onto … Continue reading

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