Category Archives: Patterns & Skills
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
Navigation 101–Cancelling Navigation
Windows Phone From Scratch #32 Let’s go back and look at the fundamentals of Navigation and how you can exert greater control as you navigate from page to page in your Windows Phone application. Simple navigation, say from one … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #23 – John Stockton
Talking with John Stockton about the current state of Silverlight – and how new Silverlight programmers are coming up to speed. John works for Avanade Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
Isolated Storage
Windows Phone From Scratch #30 An essential ingredient in storing the state of your application, especially when your application may be tombstoned or, even more extreme, closed, is the ability to create persistent storage – that is to write … Continue reading
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Windows Phone Design Guidelines
A fellow team-member has put together this terrific Cheat Sheet on WP7 Design Guidelines. Highly recommended.
Life Cycle: Page State Management
Windows Phone From Scratch #29 In previous postings, I’ve discussed the Life Cycle of a Windows Phone application and in that context noted the requirement to maintain the page’s state when the user navigates away (so that state can be … Continue reading
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The Full Stack: Entity Framework To Phone, The Server Side
Part 6 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
One Man’s Communication Journey Through the Internet
I saw recently that a buddy had celebrated his fifth year of blogging. Very cool but it made me, of course, start to wonder when I started blogging. Now, so much depends on what you mean by blogging. Because blogs … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast–Bill Wagner
Effective C# and much more with Bill Wagner Bill is a Microsoft Regional Director and the author of both Effective C# and More Effective C#. Links discussed include: Chris Marinos’ MSDN article Rich Minerich’s Blog Dianne Marsh on the history … Continue reading
Reactive Extensions–Observable Sequences are First Class Objects
Windows Phone From Scratch #28 In yesterdays’ posting on Asynchronous programming with Reactive Extensions I created a browser application that reacted to user input into a TextBox. You will remember that the observable was created from the TextChanged event as … Continue reading
Rx–Reactive Programming for Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch #27 My first posting about Reactive Programming for Windows Phone generated some terrific comments… many of which asked (and others answered) “what is the benefit of this?” In this second posting on the topic I’ll … Continue reading
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Stop What You Are Doing And Learn About Reactive Programming
Windows Phone From Scratch #26 I’m increasingly convinced that Reactive Programming is going to be critical for Silverlight and Windows Phone developers. Reactive Programming is not new, and the Rx toolkit has been out for a while, but this is … Continue reading
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