Category Archives: Patterns & Skills
Snapshot
January 6, 2011 – quick snapshot of what I’m reading, listening to, watching…
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Windows Phone From Scratch #18 – MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts 3
This is the third part of the MVVM Light Toollkit Soup To Nuts (part 1 is here) within the Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-tutorial series. Today we look at an introduction to messaging as a tool for communicating, e.g., from … Continue reading
The Full Stack #5 – Entity Framework Code First
Part 5 in the Full Stack series in which Jon and I are building an entire application from conception to delivery that includes MVC 3 ASP.NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone. Also available on Channel 9
Windows Phone From Scratch #17: MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts Part 2
This is the second part of the MVVM Light Toollkit Soup To Nuts (part 1 is here) within the Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-tutorial series. Today we look at an introduction to behaviors as a tool for migrating event handling … Continue reading
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(WPFS) MVVM Light Toolkit: Soup To Nuts Part I
While I’m not a zealot on the topic, I do believe that MVVM offers one of the best patterns for Windows Phone development and so, moving forward, the Windows Phone From Scratch series will incorporate MVVM in general, and the … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #19 – Lisa Feigenbaum
Talking with Lisa Feigenbaum and Lucian Wischik about Programming Languages – Microsoft® Visual Basic® CTP for Windows® Phone Developer Tools: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=201859 – Visual Studio® Async CTP for C# & Visual Basic®: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.aspx – Productivity Power Tools: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef?SRC=Home Lisa Feigenbaum is … Continue reading
Windows Phone From Scratch – Navigation II
In the previous WPFS we covered the basics of Navigation and the in the one before that we covered the fundamentals of animation. Let’s combine these two ideas to create a better navigation experience. When we move from page 1 … Continue reading
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Windows Phone From Scratch – Navigation
To navigate from one page to another, you can take advantage of the static Navigate method on the page’s read-only NavigationService property. This passes your request to the NavigationService Singleton for your application, and greatly simplifies the navigation syntax. A … Continue reading
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Windows Phone From Scratch – Animation
Animation in Silverlight is declared in Storyboards and triggered by a user’s action, by a background action or process or, most commonly, by a change in state. Thus an animation might be triggered by pressing a button, but more often … Continue reading
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In Memory of Captain Beefheart
Don Van Vliet, Captain Beefheart, died yesterday. I went to see Captain Beefheart when I was 15. He was playing a very small room somewhere at MIT and we all sat on the floor while he blew our minds. Astonishing, … Continue reading
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Ten Requirements For Tutorials, Videos, Demos and White Papers That Don’t Suck
I read a lot of tutorials, and most of them suck. Sorry, but they do; they almost tell you what you need to know and then you are left hanging; with your code not quite working and you can’t figure … Continue reading
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Windows Phone from Scratch #13 — Custom Behaviors Part II: ActionTrigger
In the previous mini-tutorial you saw how to create a custom Behavior, and in that custom behavior you captured the on click action event of the button. This pattern is so common that there is a special type of behavior, … Continue reading
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