Category Archives: Mini-Tutorial
Adding an Application Bar
Windows Phone From Scratch #46 In a recent posting I wrote about creating Conway’s Life for the phone. The application is a tinkerer’s playhouse and I find myself going back to it to add features and tweaks. This morning I … Continue reading
Coding For Fun: Conway’s Life
Windows Phone From Scratch #45 I was feeling a bit restless yesterday, so I decided to see if I couldn’t get a first approximation of Conway’s Life cellular automaton up and running on Windows Phone. I gave myself 1 hour … Continue reading
Deferred Execution in LINQ
A LINQ Tutorial As part of my on-going exploration of technologies related to programming Silverlight and Windows Phone, I’ve been exploring LINQ in some detail. Today, I’d like to take a look at how LINQ queries are executed; specifically focusing … Continue reading
From Android to Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch #43 This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials and related content on moving applications from Android to Windows Phone. To get us started, let’s take a look at a simple Android application that takes … Continue reading
Testing Network Availability
Windows Phone From Scratch #42 We would like to live in a world in which any time you turn your phone on the network is there, full strength. We’d also like to live in a world of peace and … Continue reading
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Silverlight Unit Test For Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch #41 There has been some confusion about how to make the Silverlight Unit Tests work on Windows Phone. The latest release of the Silverlight Unit Tests comes with the Silverlight Toolkit, and it targeted at … Continue reading
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Reactive Extensions–More About Chaining
Reactive Programming, Posting # 10 In the previous posting on Reactive Extensions, we created an application that calls on the Bing translation service to translate a phrase into Japanese, and then back into English. This allowed the introduction of the … Continue reading
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Reactive Drag and Drop Part 2
Reactive Programming, Posting # 7 In Part 1 of this 2 part posting we looked at capturing the mouse movements. The key code in Part 1 was, var q = from start in mousedown from pos in mousemove.StartWith( start ) … Continue reading
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Linq to XML
A LINQ Tutorial Earlier, we took a look at two variants on Linq statements, one against a collection of integers, and then another against a collection of user-defined objects (Customers). Now, we’ll read an XML file and select from that … Continue reading
Linq with Objects
A LINQ Tutorial In my earlier post, we took a first look at a Linq query against a collection of integers. In this posting, we’ll look at creating a Linq query against a collection of objects.
Reactive Drag and Drop Part 1
Reactive Programming, Posting # 4 Continuing the discussion of Reactive Programming, this posting, based on a video from the Rx team, will create and annotate Drag and Drop using the Rx toolkit. In part 1 we’ll track mouse movements, in … Continue reading
Creating An Application Bar–Don’t Panic
Windows Phone From Scratch #31 The application bar sits at the bottom of your Windows Phone application and provides a set of hopefully not-too-cryptic icons, along with an ellipses (…) that pops open the menu and the text associated … Continue reading