Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
Windows 8–Conference Buddy. Reading JSON From A File
I’d like to have a page in Conference Buddy that lists all the customer contacts. We’re currently writing these contacts to file in JSON format as described in this article. My goal for today is to read that file and … Continue reading
Windows 8 GridView, ListView and SnapView
In a previous posting I demonstrated how you can create a powerful display of grouped data using the GridView, which is typically used to fill the screen. Every Windows 8 application must also support SnapView, however, in which your application … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #86–Azure Mobile Services with Josh Twist
This is a not-to-miss podcast on Azure Mobile Services, which tremendously simplifies databases, authentication and push notifications for your Windows 8, Windows Phone, IOS and etc. applications. Josh Twist is a Program Manager on the Windows Azure team and was … Continue reading
Windows 8–Grid View
GridView is one of the most powerful out-of-the-box controls in Windows 8, but fully understanding how to use it is not necessarily trivial. The complexity, I believe, comes because GridViews are often used to hold groups of collections, rather than … Continue reading
Windows 8 Persisting Conference Buddy JSON To A File
In my most recent posting on Conference Buddy, I showed how to store the data we’ll be accumulating in JSON format. Today, I’ll show how to write that JSON data to a file for local storage. Let’s return to the … Continue reading
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Windows 8: Storing JSON Data for Conference Buddy
In an earlier postings I described the project that I’ll be creating with Phil Japikse and Michael Crump, code-named Conference Buddy. In a recent posting we looked at a wire-frame that illustrated some of the data we’ll be collecting. In … Continue reading
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Windows 8: Adding An AppBar to Conference Buddy
In an earlier postings I described the project that I’ll be creating with Phil Japikse and Michael Crump, code-named Conference Buddy. In the most recent posting, we looked at a wire-frame that illustrated some of the data we’ll be collecting. … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #85–Fritz Onion of pluralsight
Fritz Onion, one of the founding members of pluralsight, joins me to discuss on-line learning, pluralsight’s business model, where the opportunities are for instructors and students and much more. Fritz is Editor in Chief at pluralsight, and the author of … Continue reading
Windows 8 and Spell Check
WinRT XAML supports system-driven spell checking and auto-complete. Built in and right out of the box. The figure shows spell checking at work. Notice the squiggly underlining of the misspelled word, the options to correct or add to the dictionary … Continue reading
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Evolving Simple Wireframes With AppMock
In an earlier post I introduced the initial wire-frame design for an application that I’ll be creating from scratch in XAML and C#, tentatively named Conference Buddy. As noted in that article, Phil Japikse will be creating the same application … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Essentials, Tools and Utilities, Windows 8
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Yet Another Podcast #84–Chris Eargle Discussing Advanced C# and LINQ
Chris Eargle, Technical Evangelist for Telerik, joins me in a discussion of C#, advanced LINQ and some of the esoteric corners of C# and functional coding. Chris’ Blog Chris on Twitter Chris’ Profile INETA Listen | Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Languages, Linq, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, Tools and Utilities
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Creating A Win8 App From Scratch–A Scrolling Home Page
In a previous article I discussed the project that I’ll be building in Windows 8. We started with a couple screen mock-ups and then passed these to the designers who came back with preliminary designs. While these designs were not … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, Metro, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Windows 8
Tagged Mini-Tutorial
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