Category Archives: WindowsPhone
Yet Another Podcast #43–Sean McKenna and Windows Phone Data
Talking with Sean McKenna, Senior Program Manager on the Windows Phone Application Platform Team, about structured data, databases and much more. Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
Windows Phone Fundamentals–3 Ways To Handle Events
Windows Phone From Scratch One potential area of confusion for programmers new to Silverlight and Windows Phone is that there are (at least) three distinct ways to handle events. Name the event handler in the Xaml Name the event handler … Continue reading
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Removing the BackStack Entry in Windows Phone
A reader correctly complained about my posting on Sending Messages Between Pages that the “dialog” box I had created was in the BackStack. If you were to go through the dialog and then later hit the hardware back-key you would … Continue reading
Windows Phone–Sending Messages Between Pages
Windows Phone Tutorials Last week I began work on prototyping a new application as part of the Full Stack series. In this application I would like to open a dialog box, retrieve some information from the user, and return … Continue reading
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Windows Phone Fundamentals–Navigation
Windows Phone Fundamentals Continuing my mini-series on Windows Phone Fundamentals, begun here, this tutorial will cover the topic of navigating from one page to another. This is one of those tasks that are wicked simple once you know how, but … Continue reading
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Windows Phone Fundamentals–Layout
Windows Phone Fundamentals The Windows Phone From Scratch mini-tutorials are going back to the fundamentals for those who are new to Windows Phone Programming. Today, we cover basic layout with the Grid Control. The Grid control is often compared to … Continue reading
Changing Teams But Not Focus
Change is always difficult and exciting. I’ve been with the Developer Division since I started at Microsoft, working in the same role (Community PM) for a number of different managers. I have now moved to the Windows Phone Team as … Continue reading
Obtaining Email, Address or Phone Number
Mango From Scratch Windows Phone Mango now has new tasks to obtain additional information from the contacts list, such as the user’s email address, snail-mail address and phone number. All of these work essentially in the same way: you create … Continue reading
Fast Application Switching Made Easy
Mango From Scratch One of the key features in Mango is Fast Application Switching. This is a radical change to the life-cycle of applications, and one of the very first things you’ll want to do, when upgrading your Windows 7 … Continue reading
Send Toast Made Easy
Mango From Scratch In a follow up to yesterday’s article about Tile Notifications, let’s take a look at sending Toast Notifications. You’ll remember that we had two projects yesterday, SendTileServer and TilesNotificationClient. Today we’ll create SendToastServer and ToastNotificationsClient. The parallels … Continue reading
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Tile Notifications Made Easy
Mango From Scratch This posting is a rip-off. Specifically, I steal liberally from the MSDN documentation, but my goal is to mix together and distill a great deal of information down to the essentials to provide you with a clear … Continue reading
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Windows Phones for $0.01–With Plan
Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile are offering new Windows Phones for a penny with a new two-year service/data contract. The offer is good until July 2. More information here.
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