Category Archives: WindowsPhone

BingMapsTask in Mango

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Mango From Scratch It turns out that launching Bing Maps, even with Search terms and setting the zoom level is absurdly easy, using the new BingMaps task.  I used it to search for donuts in the Boston area (and came … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast Show 38–What’s New In Mango

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Larry Lieberman, Product Manager – Windows Phone Team, who works on the Developer Platform joins us to discuss what’s new in Mango for Consumers and for Developers.  Larry provides a vital overview of the newest features in Windows Phone. Listen … Continue reading →

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Fast Switching and Page State in Mango

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Mango From Scratch Mango introduces fast application switching.  To implement this feature a new stage in the lifecycle has been added: Dormant.  Applications are put in the dormant state when the user navigates forward, away from the application (e.g., using … Continue reading →

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The Full Stack, Part 12: Adding photo support to our Windows Phone app – Capture, storage, and display

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

We walk through the code we used to add photo support to the WhoIsThat application, including: Using the Camera chooser  Restoring application state after the photo is taken  Decoding and displaying the image  Storing and retrieving the image

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Yet Another Podcast #37 Silverlight HTML5 & Developers Part 2

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Part 2 of a conversation with Shawn Wildermuth, president of Agilitrain and author of the forthcoming  book Essential Windows Phone 7 about Mix, Silverlight, Windows Phone, HTML5 and the state of .NET development Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading →

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Secondary Tiles– Part 1: Creation

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Mango From Scratch Tiles come in two flavors: Application Tiles and Secondary Tiles.  The secondary tile is always created programmatically, typically based on an interaction with the user.  Secondary tiles are often used to provide user-specific data such as the … Continue reading →

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Mango Announcement

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Andy Lees today announced the Mango release, and the availability of the development tools.  Read more here.

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Managing the Back Stack

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Mango From Scratch In a previous posting, I discussed creating Reminders.  One little known feature of reminders is that you can click on the Reminder to return to the original application (the application in which you set the Reminder).  For … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #36 Mary Jo Foley

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years, and has been following Microsoft for the past ten years.  She has written for ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline among other publications and web sites and is the author of … Continue reading →

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Persisting an image

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone From Scratch In our Full Stack program we need to take a snapshot and persist it to isolated storage, for retrieval at a later time.  This posed an interesting question: how do you put an image into a … Continue reading →

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The Full Stack–Accidentally Pair Programming and Writing Unit Tests

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

In this episode of The Full Stack, Jesse and Jon continue their reboot of the windows phone client project. Having set up an MVVM application and decided on using a repository pattern on the phone that mirrors the server’s repository, … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #35–Silverlight, HTML5 and Developers

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Part 1 of a conversation with Shawn Wildermuth, president of Agilitrain and author of the forthcoming book Essential Windows Phone 7 about Mix, Silverlight, Windows Phone, HTML5 and the state of .NET development Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading →

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