Category Archives: Tools and Utilities

The Full Stack, Phase 2–Overview

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone Tutorial Last year Jon Galloway and I launched the Full Stack experiment,in which we video-documented the creation of a nontrivial application. Today we begin the second phase of this experiment, building a new application that will have implementations … Continue reading →

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Drag and Drop in 30 Seconds

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

If this doesn’t convince you that it is worthwhile to learn Blend and Behaviors… Open a new phone project in Blend and drag a shape onto the artboard (e.g., an ellipse). Click on Assets –> Behaviors and drag  MouseDragElementBehavior onto … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #49–Jon Galloway: What’s New In ASP.NET

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Jon Galloway about what’s new in the ASP.NET family, including previews of MVC 4, Visual Studio 11, Web Forms 4.5 and WCF Web API. Jon’s Blog ASP.NET VNext site MVC 4 Site Road Map Jon’s Book Listen | … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone Toolkit–Date and Time Pickers

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

A Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorial You have seen the Date and Time pickers in the built-in applications and you can add them to your own applications with shockingly little work.   To start, follow the directions from yesterday’s posting on … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone Toolkit AutoCompleteBox

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

A Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorial The Windows Phone Toolkit offers a number of useful controls that you can use right out of the box.  This is the first in a sub-series of mini-tutorials on the Windows Phone Toolkit. From … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone: Touch

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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 →

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Adding an Application Bar

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone From Scratch #46 In a recent posting I wrote about creating Conway’s Life for the phone.  The application is a tinkerer’s playhouse and I find myself going back to it to add features and tweaks. This morning I … Continue reading →

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Silverlight Unit Test For Phone

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Windows Phone From Scratch #41   There has been some confusion about how to make the Silverlight Unit Tests work on Windows Phone.  The latest release of the Silverlight Unit Tests comes with the Silverlight Toolkit, and it targeted at … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #26–Walt Ritscher

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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 →

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Creating An Application Bar–Don’t Panic

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

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 →

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Windows Phone Design Guidelines

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

A fellow team-member has put together this terrific Cheat Sheet on WP7 Design Guidelines.  Highly recommended.

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Yet Another Podcast–Bill Wagner

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Jesse Liberty

Effective C# and much more with Bill Wagner Bill is a Microsoft Regional Director and the author of both Effective C# and More Effective C#. Links discussed include: Chris Marinos’ MSDN article Rich Minerich’s Blog Dianne Marsh on the history … Continue reading →

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