Category Archives: Mango

Adding Icons to the DateTime Picker

Windows Phone Tutorial If you just add a DateTime Picker (from the Windows Phone Toolkit) to your application, it will work but its icons will be very unsatisfactory – just a pair of X’s.  To get the proper icons, follow … Continue reading

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Windows Phone WCF OData Client

Windows Phone Tutorial In a recent posting I showed how to create a quick OData service using Entity-Framework Code-First and SQLCE4.  In this posting I’ll show how to create a simple Windows Phone client to interact with that service.

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My presentation at //build

I presented on Windows Phone Xaml Programming at the //build conference. It was great fun. You can watch the video here.

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Survey Time!

Please help us determine which topics are of most interest by taking this incredibly short survey.  It’s anonymous, it’s free and if you complete the survey you are eligible to feel really good about yourself. 

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Creating an OData Server Quickly

Windows Phone Tutorial There are numerous ways to access data from Web Services.  To explore these we need a simple server that exposes data we can interact with from a Windows Phone Application. To facilitate this, we’ll build an ASP.NET/MVC … Continue reading

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DataBinding to Custom Properties

Windows Phone Tutorial In a recent three part mini-series I showed how to create a Xaml program from scratch.  In the third part of the series I showed how the values are computed for display, but I glossed over how … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #48–Adam Kinney and HTML 5

Talking with Adam Kinney about HTML 5 and the role of the UI Integrator Adam’s web site Adam on Twitter PixelLab Agent 8 Ball Adam’s How Do I Videos   Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST

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Building a Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 3 of 3

Windows Phone Tutorial In Part 1 of this mini-series we created the layout for a calculator. In Part 2, we filled in the event handlers for the buttons.  In this third and final part we’ll review the code for the … Continue reading

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Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 2

Windows Phone Tutorial In Part 1 of this mini-series we created the layout for a calculator. In this part, we’ll take a look at the event handlers required to make the buttons works.  When the user clicks a button an … Continue reading

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Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch

Windows Phone Tutorial In this and the next few blog posts, we will build an application from scratch; covering all the details along the way.  The application we’re going to build is a simple four function calculator. We’ll build it … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast–Jeff Prosise

Talking with Jeff Prosise, author and co-founder of Wintellect, about programming for Windows Phone, what’s new in Mango, HTML5, jQuery and other topics in programming.  “I think I’m having more fun in our industry right now than I have since … Continue reading

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Bing Maps Task

You’ve seen in previous Windows Phone Mini-tutorials that all tasks have the same basic structure: Instantiate the task Add any specifying data Show the task The Bing Maps Task is no different. In fact, it is so simple to use … Continue reading

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