Category Archives: Mini-Tutorial
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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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 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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iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Tutorial: Objective-C, C#, Xaml
[ Link to First Tutorial ] While there is much you can “pick up as you go” if you are an Objective-C programmer, understanding some of the fundamental differences in C# can save you a great deal of time and … Continue reading
Posted in iPhoneToWP7, Languages, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged C#, i2WTutorial, Mini-Tutorial, wp7Tutorial
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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
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Tagged convert, Data, i2WTutorial, migrate, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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i2W: An iPhone Developer’s First Windows Phone 7 Application
Go to first Tutorial In this tutorial we will build a meaningful, and nontrivial Windows phone 7 application. This will give us the opportunity to explore layout controls, interactive controls, Visual Studio and a good bit more. [Updated 8/30/2010]
Posted in iPhoneToWP7, Mini-Tutorial, Tools and Utilities, WindowsPhone
Tagged convert, i2WTutorial, migrate, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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iPhone to Windows Phone 7
This is the zeroth (introduction) in a series of Tutorials aimed at iPhone developers who want to learn how to port existing applications or create new applications in Windows Phone 7. About these Tutorials The series will consist of brief … Continue reading
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Tagged i2WTutorial, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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Random Walks For Windows Phone 7
It makes me a little crazy that every time the markets go up or down the newspapers cannot resist attributing a reason (though they’re not so good at predicting!). Today’s NY Times: “Markets down 2% on concerns about slowing economy.” … Continue reading
WP7 Mini-Tutorial Lists & Master/Detail
this tutorial begins the discussion of lists and of presenting the ubiquitous Master/Detail relationship in Windows Phone 7 Continue reading
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You May Already Be A Windows Phone 7 Programmer – Reloaded
As mentioned in the first post in this series, I am launching a series of intensive WP7 tutorials. To get started I thought it was important to revisit this earlier post and make sure all the code is up to … Continue reading
Windows Phone 7 Programming For Silverlight Developers – Reloaded
This is Tutorial number 0, in a new, intensive series of tutorials (and videos) on Windows Phone 7 Application Development targeted at Silverlight Developers. There are many good sources of information on WP7 programming now; what makes this one different … Continue reading