Category Archives: Patterns & Skills
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
Yet Another Podcast #29 Jon Galloway on MVC 3
Talking with Jon Galloway about ASP.NET MVC 3 and his Music Store tutorial. Jon is a Senior Community Program Manager for Microsoft and co-host of Herding Code. Jon’s Blog Herding Code MVC 3 Music Store Tutorial Listen| Return to … Continue reading
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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
The Full Stack 9–MVVM and TDD on the Phone Client
Part 9 in the Full Stack series in which Jon and I are building an entire application from conception to delivery that includes MVC3, ASP.NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone. Also available on Channel 9
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Yet Another Podcast #28–Jeremy Lickness
Talking with Jeremy Lickness, Silverlight MVP, certified Silverlight Developer, Senior Consultant and PM for Wintellect and creator of the Sterling Database. Obtain Sterling Sterling User Guide Jeremy’s Blog Jeremy on twitter Listen| Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #26–Walt Ritscher
Walt is a .NET programmer and UX enthusiast. His current UI obsession includes Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and WPF APIs. His blog can be found at blog.wpfwonderland.com. Walt is also a MVP and the author of the free Shazzam Shader … Continue reading
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Select Many: Reactive Extensions’ Mother Of All Operators [Chaining]
Reactive Programming, Posting # 9 Reactive Extensions (Rx) has a number of operators that we’ve looked at already, including Select, Throttle, Subscribe and so forth. While SelectMany is not the most important Rx operator, it is surely the most powerful. … Continue reading
Sterling DB on top of Isolated Storage – 2
Windows Phone From Scratch #39 In yesterday’s posting we looked at the Sterling Database. and how to set up and initialize tables, store an retrieve data. Today we’ll build on that to set up the database in App.xaml so … Continue reading
When Isolated Storage Isn’t Enough
Windows Phone From Scratch #38 When you wish to persist state across usages of your application, Isolated Storage allows you to write to the disk and stash away key-value pairs. For state, this is usually sufficient, but if what you … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #25–Glenn Block / WCF
Talking with the esteemed Mr. Glenn Block about WCF, HTTP and ever so much more. Glenn is the Program Manager for the WCF Web APIs, former PM for MEF and generally brilliant. Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call … Continue reading
Lambda–Not as weird as it sounds
Windows Phone From Scratch #36 Yesterday I wrote a few posts on LINQ but carefully avoided using Lambda expressions. Now it is time to look at this feature that sounds fierce but is really fairly straight-forward. Lambda expressions are just … Continue reading
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Getting Started With Linq
A LINQ Tutorial If you are serious about Windows Phone programming then it is imperative to become at least familiar with LINQ. This is given additional impetus by the emerging importance of Reactive Programming, a full understanding of which requires … Continue reading
