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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 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
Creating A Windows 8 Application From Scratch
Phil Japikse, Michael Crump and I set out to create three related applications from scratch. That is, a Windows 8 version written in XAML with C# (me), a Windows 8 version written in JavaScript (Phil) and a Windows 8 Phone … Continue reading
Vibrating the phone
Windows Phone Tutorial A little vibration added to your application can be just the haptic feedback needed. It turns out that vibration is absurdly easy to add; so much so that discussions of adding vibration typically come with the caveat … Continue reading
Windows Phone WCF OData Client
Windows Phone Tutorial In a recent posting I showed how to create a quick OData service using Entity-Framework Code-First and SQLCE4. In this posting I’ll show how to create a simple Windows Phone client to interact with that service.
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Windows Phone Fast Application Switching–Don’t Panic!
Windows Phone Tutorial With Mango, the Windows Phone application life cycle changes, and that is a good thing, because the change allows for Fast Application Switching (FAS). With FAS, the user can start a new application and then return to … Continue reading
Windows Phone Toolkit–Date and Time Pickers
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
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
Windows Phone Fundamentals–3 Ways To Handle Events
Windows Phone From Scratch One potential area of confusion for programmers new to Silverlight and Windows Phone is that there are (at least) three distinct ways to handle events. Name the event handler in the Xaml Name the event handler … Continue reading
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Windows Phone–Sending Messages Between Pages
Windows Phone Tutorials Last week I began work on prototyping a new application as part of the Full Stack series. In this application I would like to open a dialog box, retrieve some information from the user, and return … Continue reading
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