Category Archives: Patterns & Skills
Great SL Competency Test Part 2 (Answer)
The task: Create a custom button that has non-standard visual behavior when you hover over it, and when you click it but which otherwise acts exactly like a button. The idea was to be able to do this in under … Continue reading
Posted in Blend, Community, Patterns & Skills, Styles and Templates
Tagged BestPractices, Competency
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Yet Another Podcast
I am please, excited and terrified to announce that Yet Another Podcast will be launching on September 20, 2010. This is not your momma’s podcast. Here are my guiding principles: Do not waste the listener’s time This is not radio … Continue reading
Posted in Community, News, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, WindowsPhone
Tagged WindowsPhone, YapCast
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The Great Silverlight Competency Test – 3
This is the third of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
Posted in Community, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged BestPractices, Competency, WindowsPhone
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Great SL Competency Test Part 1 (Answer)
On August 23rd I published part 1 of The Great Silverlight Competency Test. The key tasks were to… …write a Silverlight program mimicking a problem report system, that allows you to go to your db and call up a record … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Data, Essentials, Patterns & Skills
Tagged BestPractices, Competency
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The Great Silverlight Competency Test – 2
This is the second of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
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Tagged BestPractices, Competency
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Programmer Superstitions
There are a number of practices that we engage in –– no, that we cling to, and defend, and teach to others, – that amount to magical thinking, or at best, rational failure. This is often just fine, no harm … Continue reading
The Great Silverlight Competency Test – Part 1
This begins The Great Silverlight Competency Test – an entirely arbitrary set of a dozen challenges, each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour. Each of the … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Patterns & Skills, Tools and Utilities
Tagged BestPractices, Competency, WindowsPhone
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Coding Without A Net
I recently imposed on myself the constraint of coding without comments. Why?
* Comments rust faster than code, even when you’re careful
* Well written code can be read, and comments are annoying footnotes
* Comments make for lazy coding
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WP7 Mini-Tutorial Lists & Master/Detail
this tutorial begins the discussion of lists and of presenting the ubiquitous Master/Detail relationship in Windows Phone 7 Continue reading
Posted in Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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Data Validation And Templating in Silverlight 4
This is the fifth in a series on Templates and DataValidation. [ First In Series Previous In Series ] In this and the next posting I will create an application that will demonstrate how to modify the Visual State for … Continue reading
Posted in Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Styles and Templates
Tagged Data, Mini-Tutorial, VSM
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Events and Delegates Under The Hood – Reposted
Many programmers come to Silverlight with little prior experience with C#, and thus conceptualize events as a response to an action that is “hooked up” using somewhat arbitrary syntax. All of that is fine, until it isn’t, and so this … Continue reading
Posted in Languages, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Tools and Utilities
Tagged C#, Mini-Tutorial
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Silverlight As A Transmedia Platform
The advent of Windows Phone 7 is particularly exciting to current Silverlight programmers, because Silverlight (along with .xna) is the development platform for the new phone. I recently recorded two Silverlight TV episodes, and in one I created a typical … Continue reading
Posted in HyperVideo Player, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged Patterns, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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