Category Archives: Patterns & Skills
Linq and Fluent Programming
A LINQ Tutorial I interviewed Bill Wagner for Yet Another Podcast while we were both at CodeMash (look for his interview to be published next week). In addition to being one of the nicest guys I know, he is also … Continue reading
Using the Camera in Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone From Scratch #24 On January 24 we created an application that launched the contact list and returned the phone number of the selected contact. In that posting I reviewed, briefly, the difference between Launchers and Choosers. This posting … Continue reading
Launchers & Choosers–Part 2
Windows Phone From Scratch #23 In yesterday’s posting we created an application that used a chooser to allow you to pick a name from the contacts list and to obtain the related phone number. Today we’ll use that information to … Continue reading
Tasks: Launchers and Choosers–Windows Phone From Scratch #22
To provide your Windows Phone application access to the operating system (and with it, to the native applications such as SMS, the Contact List, the Camera, and, oh yes, making a call) Windows Phone 7 has a set of predefined … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #21–Jeremy Miller
IOC Containers, .NET, Alt.NET and much more with Jeremy Miller Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered … Continue reading
Personal Brain: Quick Tip
Personal Brain has an extraordinary feature called ESP. Depending on how you set it up (I have it set to monitor the clipboard and to automatically bring up a thought), it watches everything you type, in any Windows application, and … Continue reading
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Oops! Our OData Was Read Only. Yikes!
Jon Galloway and I recently documented what we were learning about Entity Framework Code-First and oData as part of the Full Stack project. It turns out, however, that we were into some bleeding edge technology, and while everything we posted … Continue reading
Windows Phone From Scratch #21–Animation Without A Lick Of Code
Animation, used with restraint, can greatly enhance the user’s experience of the phone; clarifying transitions and creating useful illusions. One, discussed here previously, is the illusion of “flipping” part of the page over, perhaps to reveal a help file. In … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #20–Ian Griffiths Part 2
Completing the conversation with Ian Griffiths about C#, Async and much more. Plurasight Programming C# Async CTP Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
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Passing Parameters With Behaviors In MVVM Light for Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch #20 MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts #5 In the previous posting in this series, we created a list of customers and we bound them to a list box. We did this not in the code-behind … Continue reading
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Windows Phone From Scratch #19 – MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts #4
Let’s back up a bit and examine the day to day use of a View Model, and binding to the view model. In this mini-tutorial I’ll show the basics of binding a collection that sits in a View Model to … Continue reading
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Entity Framework Code-First, oData & Windows Phone Client
Entity Framework Code-First is the coolest thing since sliced bread, Windows Phone is the hottest thing since Tickle-Me-Elmo and oData is just too great to ignore. As part of the Full Stack project, we wanted to put them together, which … Continue reading
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