Category Archives: Patterns & Skills
Yet Another Podcast #18 – Joe Stagner
Talking with Joe Stagner about Code Joe’s Blog Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
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Windows Phone From Scratch #11 – Behaviors
Behaviors are, in my experience, under-appreciated by many Silverlight and Windows Phone programmers; possibly because they are most easily used from Expression Blend, which itself is greatly under-appreciated. A behavior is an encapsulation of logic within Xaml – it is … Continue reading
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Top 10 Tips To Getting Help With Silverlight
Here are 10 tips on getting your Silverlight and Windows Phone questions answered quickly and painlessly.
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Windows Phone From Scratch #10 – Visual State Part 2
This mini-tutorial will build on the work done yesterday, and will demonstrate how to return to the default visual state for a given state group.
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Firstarter 2010 – Data Binding
I had the great pleasure of presenting the Data Binding portion of the 2010 Firestarter, joining Scott Guthrie, Yavor Georgiev, Dan Wahlin, John Papa, Tim Heuer, Mike Cook, Jossef Goldberg and Jaime Rodriguez for an amazing day. Download the slides … Continue reading
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Windows Phone From Scratch #9 – Visual State
When transitioning from one state (e.g., button up) to another (e.g., button pressed) the user expects and requires visual feedback. Often this is provided with animation: the button appears to descend. Creating this animation is greatly simplified by the Visual … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #16 – Adam Kinney
Talking with Adam Kinney about Expression Blend For Developers http://adamkinney.com http://twitter.com/adkinn/ http://thinkpixellab.com Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
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Windows Phone From Scratch #8–Styles
Let’s take a look at how styles can unify the look and feel of a Windows Phone application. This and the next few Windows Phone From Scratch (WPFS) postings will use the same form, so we’ll begin by creating a … Continue reading
Quick Timesaver When Coding Xaml
Try this in your Xaml… <Button VerticalAlignment=”Center” HorizontalAlignment=”Center” Margin=”5″ Height=”30″ />
The Full Stack–Part 4: Back to the client
Part 4 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 #7–Element Binding
This mini-tutorial extends the work done in number 6, adding a slider and a text block bound to the value of the slider, through element binding – that is, the binding of one element’s value (in this case the TextBlock) … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #14 – Shawn Wildermuth
Talking with Shawn Wildermuth about Silverlight, Windows Phone, Data and more. http://wildermuth.com http://silverlight-tour.com http://agilitrain.com Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
