Category Archives: WindowsPhone
Double Dutch Double Touch
Windows Phone From Scratch #49 In my previous posting, I demonstrated how to register a touch (or tap) on Windows Phone. Today I will extend that to implement Double-Touch. To begin, I need to go back to the original Touch … Continue reading
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Windows Phone: Touch
Windows Phone From Scratch #48 A key gesture for Windows Phone users is the tap or touch on the screen. Many controls have built-in support for the touch (e.g., the button) converting the touch to an existing click event. Other … Continue reading
Posted in Blend, Essentials, Mini-Tutorial, WindowsPhone
Tagged Mini-Tutorial, wp7Tutorial, WPFS
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Conway’s Life In the Marketplace
I’m pleased to report that the first iteration of Conway’s Life, documented here, is now in the marketplace. [ Updated March 24 with Faster/Slower Buttons ] Following the conventional rules of Conway’s Game Of Life, the screen is divided into … Continue reading
Coding For Fun: Conway’s Life
Windows Phone From Scratch #45 I was feeling a bit restless yesterday, so I decided to see if I couldn’t get a first approximation of Conway’s Life cellular automaton up and running on Windows Phone. I gave myself 1 hour … Continue reading
Deferred Execution in LINQ
A LINQ Tutorial As part of my on-going exploration of technologies related to programming Silverlight and Windows Phone, I’ve been exploring LINQ in some detail. Today, I’d like to take a look at how LINQ queries are executed; specifically focusing … Continue reading
From Android to Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch #43 This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials and related content on moving applications from Android to Windows Phone. To get us started, let’s take a look at a simple Android application that takes … Continue reading
Testing Network Availability
Windows Phone From Scratch #42 We would like to live in a world in which any time you turn your phone on the network is there, full strength. We’d also like to live in a world of peace and … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #26–Walt Ritscher
Walt is a .NET programmer and UX enthusiast. His current UI obsession includes Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and WPF APIs. His blog can be found at blog.wpfwonderland.com. Walt is also a MVP and the author of the free Shazzam Shader … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Essentials, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, Tools and Utilities, WindowsPhone
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The Full Stack 8–Adding Search to the Phone Client
Part 8 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
Select Many: Reactive Extensions’ Mother Of All Operators [Chaining]
Reactive Programming, Posting # 9 Reactive Extensions (Rx) has a number of operators that we’ve looked at already, including Select, Throttle, Subscribe and so forth. While SelectMany is not the most important Rx operator, it is surely the most powerful. … Continue reading
Silverlight Sans Xaml?
Are we far enough along in the development of WYSIWYG tools, specifically both the design surface in Visual Studio, and even more so, Expression Blend, that the right way to teach Silverlight and Windows Phone programming is without Xaml? I … Continue reading
Reactive Drag and Drop Part 2
Reactive Programming, Posting # 7 In Part 1 of this 2 part posting we looked at capturing the mouse movements. The key code in Part 1 was, var q = from start in mousedown from pos in mousemove.StartWith( start ) … Continue reading
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