Category Archives: Mini-Tutorial
DecryptR Part 2
In a recent post, I discussed the DecryptR application I have been toying with. While the fundamentals are working, there is much to do. Today I’ll make a few minor improvements. First, let’s set the font in the list box … Continue reading
DecryptR–A Glass House Application
Periodically, I like to build a “glass house” application – that is one which I document as I go, hiding nothing and showing all the thinking that goes into the application as well as the raw, not ready-for-production code … Continue reading
Context Menu
Windows Phone Tutorial The Silverlight For Windows Phone Toolkit is a magnificent collection of controls and utilities for writing Windows Phone applications. Unfortunately, there is little or no documentation, and the samples, while wonderful, are quite complex. At times, it … Continue reading
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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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New Mini-Tutorial Video Series
I’m very pleased to announce that I’m starting a new video series based on my mini tutorials about Windows phone mango. These will all be posted on Channel 9 and you can also find them listed alphabetically on my Windows … Continue reading
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
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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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
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
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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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