Category Archives: Tools and Utilities

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Full Stack – Part 2 – Starting the Windows Phone Client

Part 2 of the full stack video series with Jon Galloway

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The Full Stack – Part 1 – Building the admin site with ASP.NET MVC3, NUPack & EF Code First

I’m incredibly pleased and proud to launch The Full Stack with Jon Galloway. 

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Yet Another Podcast – Show #9 – Software Assisted Programming

Talking with Gary Short, Developer Evangelist from DevExpress on Software Assisted Programming  Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments:  1-347-YAP-CAST

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