Category Archives: WindowsPhone
Best Practices For Local Databases
Mango From Scratch I’ve recently written two posts about coding for SQL CE in Mango (the next release of Windows Phone). Sean McKenna, who knows more about this than anyone walking the planet, dropped me an email to remind me … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Essentials, Linq, Mango, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged Mini-Tutorial
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Coming In Mango–Local DB Part 2: Relationships
On May 10 I posted about the upcoming addition of SQL Server Compact Edition (CE) in Windows Phone Mango. At that time, I showed how to create the DataContext object and how to store and retrieve “flat” data. In this … Continue reading
Coming in Mango–Query the Contacts List
Mango From Scratch Coming in Mango is the ability to query the Contact List and retrieve considerably more information than was available previously. In addition to the EmailAddress Chooser Task and the PhoneNumberChooserTask Mango will include an AddressChooserTask. In addition, … Continue reading
Coming in Mango–Sql Server CE
Mango From Scratch With the forthcoming Mango release of Windows Phone (tools to be released this month) you can store structured data in a Sql Server Compact Edition (CE) database file in isolated storage (called a local database). You don’t … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #33–Mobile Game Development
Talking with Eric Mork and Kelly White about developing games and applications on Windows Phone, iPhone and Android. Kelly’s Blog Kelly’s Company Erik’s Company Reference information from show Microsoft ecosystem iOS apps Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading
Coming In Mango–ICommand
Mango From Scratch As noted in earlier posts, Mango represents a move from Silverlight 3+ to Silverlight 4, and with that comes ICommand on ButtonBase and Hyperlink (and classes that derive from these two). This is a significant breakthrough, especially … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Essentials, Mango, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged Mini-Tutorial, WindowsPhone
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Developing for Windows Phone?? Bookmark This Site
My colleagues in Developer Guidance have created 22 topic/scenario-focused web pages on App Hub, the Windows Phone developer website, that provide a comprehensive view of all the resources available for Windows Phone development. The pages are self-contained, single-page search targets, … Continue reading
Tooling in Mango
The big news at Mix this year was the upcoming release of Mango – the next generation for Windows Phone. Among the many exciting new features were a few new tooling capabilities that will change the way you write your … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, Mango, WindowsPhone
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Email a stack trace when things blow up in Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch Jon Galloway and I have been working together on The Full Stack project. This week, we’ve been banging our heads together trying to figure out why our Windows Phone application crashes on testing when submitted to … Continue reading
Mix, Silverlight and Windows Phone
A very exciting time at Mix this year, especially if your focus is Windows Phone or Silverlight. On the Windows Phone front, the next release, code name Mango was announced. Mango brings Windows Phone fully up to Silverlight 4, and … Continue reading
Posted in Full Stack, Languages, News, Opinion, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged HTML, Silverlight, Windows Phone
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Tombstoning and MVVM
We’re working pretty hard to get the Who Is That (Full Stack) Windows Phone application ready. Today I took a look at tombstoning and realized that this was not going to be quite as easy as I thought… and worse, … Continue reading
Application Bar Buttons Are Null
Windows Phone From Scratch #50 In a recent posting, I demonstrated how easy it is to add buttons to the phone’s Application Bar. I went back to that application to disable the “faster” button when the maximum speed was reached. … Continue reading
