Category Archives: Mini-Tutorial
Windows Phone Fundamentals–Navigation
Windows Phone Fundamentals Continuing my mini-series on Windows Phone Fundamentals, begun here, this tutorial will cover the topic of navigating from one page to another. This is one of those tasks that are wicked simple once you know how, but … Continue reading
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Windows Phone Fundamentals–Layout
Windows Phone Fundamentals The Windows Phone From Scratch mini-tutorials are going back to the fundamentals for those who are new to Windows Phone Programming. Today, we cover basic layout with the Grid Control. The Grid control is often compared to … Continue reading
Obtaining Email, Address or Phone Number
Mango From Scratch Windows Phone Mango now has new tasks to obtain additional information from the contacts list, such as the user’s email address, snail-mail address and phone number. All of these work essentially in the same way: you create … Continue reading
Fast Application Switching Made Easy
Mango From Scratch One of the key features in Mango is Fast Application Switching. This is a radical change to the life-cycle of applications, and one of the very first things you’ll want to do, when upgrading your Windows 7 … Continue reading
The LINQ Zip Operator
LINQ I am a strong believer that .NET programmers in general, and Windows Phone programmers in particular need to become proficient in LINQ. As part of that belief and commitment to the Windows Phone community, I have created a series … Continue reading
Send Toast Made Easy
Mango From Scratch In a follow up to yesterday’s article about Tile Notifications, let’s take a look at sending Toast Notifications. You’ll remember that we had two projects yesterday, SendTileServer and TilesNotificationClient. Today we’ll create SendToastServer and ToastNotificationsClient. The parallels … Continue reading
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Tile Notifications Made Easy
Mango From Scratch This posting is a rip-off. Specifically, I steal liberally from the MSDN documentation, but my goal is to mix together and distill a great deal of information down to the essentials to provide you with a clear … Continue reading
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LINQ: The overloaded Contains Operator
A LINQ Tutorial As part of my continuing (and occasional) series of mini-tutorials on LINQ this posting will consider the overloaded Contains operator. This operator allows you to check whether a list contains a given value, as illustrated in the … Continue reading
BingMapsTask in Mango
Mango From Scratch It turns out that launching Bing Maps, even with Search terms and setting the zoom level is absurdly easy, using the new BingMaps task. I used it to search for donuts in the Boston area (and came … Continue reading
Fast Switching and Page State in Mango
Mango From Scratch Mango introduces fast application switching. To implement this feature a new stage in the lifecycle has been added: Dormant. Applications are put in the dormant state when the user navigates forward, away from the application (e.g., using … Continue reading
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Managing Resources with Reactive Extensions
Reactive Extensions While Reactive Extensions will clean up after itself, it is still your responsibility to manage limited resources, and to dispose of any unmanaged resources. You can, however, use a variant on the using statement with Observables.
Managing the Back Stack
Mango From Scratch In a previous posting, I discussed creating Reminders. One little known feature of reminders is that you can click on the Reminder to return to the original application (the application in which you set the Reminder). For … Continue reading
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