Category Archives: WindowsPhone
New Series on WP7 Dev From Scratch
The documentation group in Developer Guidance just released a set of Windows Phone 7 development articles aimed at guiding the new Windows Phone programmer through all the fundamentals of WP7 development, starting with “Hello World”. The topics are presented in … Continue reading
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Creating An Application Bar–Don’t Panic
Windows Phone From Scratch #31 The application bar sits at the bottom of your Windows Phone application and provides a set of hopefully not-too-cryptic icons, along with an ellipses (…) that pops open the menu and the text associated … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #23 – John Stockton
Talking with John Stockton about the current state of Silverlight – and how new Silverlight programmers are coming up to speed. John works for Avanade Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
Windows Phone Design Guidelines
A fellow team-member has put together this terrific Cheat Sheet on WP7 Design Guidelines. Highly recommended.
The Full Stack: Entity Framework To Phone, The Server Side
Part 6 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
Rx–Reactive Programming for Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch #27 My first posting about Reactive Programming for Windows Phone generated some terrific comments… many of which asked (and others answered) “what is the benefit of this?” In this second posting on the topic I’ll … Continue reading
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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
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 #18 – MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts 3
This is the third part of the MVVM Light Toollkit Soup To Nuts (part 1 is here) within the Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-tutorial series. Today we look at an introduction to messaging as a tool for communicating, e.g., from … Continue reading
The Full Stack #5 – Entity Framework Code First
Part 5 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
Windows Phone From Scratch #17: MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts Part 2
This is the second part of the MVVM Light Toollkit Soup To Nuts (part 1 is here) within the Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-tutorial series. Today we look at an introduction to behaviors as a tool for migrating event handling … Continue reading
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