Category Archives: Tools and Utilities
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
Windows Phone Design Guidelines
A fellow team-member has put together this terrific Cheat Sheet on WP7 Design Guidelines. Highly recommended.
Yet Another Podcast–Bill Wagner
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
Yet Another Podcast #21–Jeremy Miller
IOC Containers, .NET, Alt.NET and much more with Jeremy Miller Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered … Continue reading
Windows Phone From Scratch #21–Animation Without A Lick Of Code
Animation, used with restraint, can greatly enhance the user’s experience of the phone; clarifying transitions and creating useful illusions. One, discussed here previously, is the illusion of “flipping” part of the page over, perhaps to reveal a help file. In … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Blend, Essentials, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills
Tagged Mini-Tutorial
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12 MORE Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers
In July I published a list of 12 Insanely Essential Utilities for Programmers. That list is still current and I’m still using every one of the twelve. The list, however, has become popular enough, and there are enough great utilities … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Essentials, Opinion, Tools and Utilities
Tagged BestPractices, Tips, Tools
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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
Posted in Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Tools and Utilities, WindowsPhone
Tagged Mini-Tutorial, WPFS
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Entity Framework Code-First, oData & Windows Phone Client
Entity Framework Code-First is the coolest thing since sliced bread, Windows Phone is the hottest thing since Tickle-Me-Elmo and oData is just too great to ignore. As part of the Full Stack project, we wanted to put them together, which … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Essentials, Full Stack, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Tools and Utilities
Tagged Mini-Tutorial, wp7Tutorial
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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
Posted in Blend, Data, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged Mini-Tutorial
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Windows Phone From Scratch #12–Custom Behaviors (Part I)
To fully understand how behaviors work, you need to create a couple custom Behaviors of your own. In this tutorial we’ll build a custom behavior and in the next we’ll look at a specialized form of custom behavior called a … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #16 – Adam Kinney
Talking with Adam Kinney about Expression Blend For Developers http://adamkinney.com http://twitter.com/adkinn/ http://thinkpixellab.com Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
Posted in Blend, Patterns & Skills, Podcast
Tagged wp7Tutorial, YapCast
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Yet Another Podcast #13–Corey Schuman
Talking with Corey Schuman about Windows Phone, Blend and more. Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
Posted in Blend, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, WindowsPhone
Tagged Blend, WindowsPhone, YapCast
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