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Windows Phone Fundamentals–Navigation
Windows Phone Fundamentals Continuing my mini-series on Windows Phone Fundamentals, begun here, this tutorial will cover the topic of navigating from one page to another. This is one of those tasks that are wicked simple once you know how, but … Continue reading
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Windows Phone Fundamentals– Canvas & StackPanel
Windows Phone Fundamentals Yesterday, I began a series of posts going back to the fundamentals of Windows Phone programming, beginning with the grid layout. Today we examine two other layout controls: the canvas and the StackPanel.
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Windows Phone Fundamentals–Layout
Windows Phone Fundamentals The Windows Phone From Scratch mini-tutorials are going back to the fundamentals for those who are new to Windows Phone Programming. Today, we cover basic layout with the Grid Control. The Grid control is often compared to … Continue reading
Obtaining Email, Address or Phone Number
Mango From Scratch Windows Phone Mango now has new tasks to obtain additional information from the contacts list, such as the user’s email address, snail-mail address and phone number. All of these work essentially in the same way: you create … Continue reading
Email a stack trace when things blow up in Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch Jon Galloway and I have been working together on The Full Stack project. This week, we’ve been banging our heads together trying to figure out why our Windows Phone application crashes on testing when submitted to … Continue reading
Windows Phone: Touch
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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From Android to Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch #43 This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials and related content on moving applications from Android to Windows Phone. To get us started, let’s take a look at a simple Android application that takes … Continue reading
Silverlight Unit Test For Phone
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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New Series on WP7 Dev From Scratch
The documentation group in Developer Guidance just released a set of Windows Phone 7 development articles aimed at guiding the new Windows Phone programmer through all the fundamentals of WP7 development, starting with “Hello World”. The topics are presented in … Continue reading
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Rx–Reactive Programming for Windows Phone
Windows Phone From Scratch #27 My first posting about Reactive Programming for Windows Phone generated some terrific comments… many of which asked (and others answered) “what is the benefit of this?” In this second posting on the topic I’ll … Continue reading
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Using the Camera in Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone From Scratch #24 On January 24 we created an application that launched the contact list and returned the phone number of the selected contact. In that posting I reviewed, briefly, the difference between Launchers and Choosers. This posting … Continue reading
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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