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Windows Phone Tutorial: Why Windows Phone Developers Should Must and Are Learning and Using Expression Blend
Back in June, I wrote this to Silverlight developers: Okay, tough love: if you are serious about Silverlight development, the days of using one Integrated Development Environment for all your work are…. over. The benefits of adding Expression Blend to … Continue reading
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iPhone to WP7 – Diving Deeper
Go to First Tutorial In this tutorial, we’ll expand upon the work done in the previous tutorial and we’ll look more closely at a few key issues. MVVM As an iPhone Developer your thinking is adapted to and influenced by … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, iPhoneToWP7, Mini-Tutorial, WindowsPhone
Tagged convert, Data, i2WTutorial, migrate, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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Persisting an image
Windows Phone From Scratch In our Full Stack program we need to take a snapshot and persist it to isolated storage, for retrieval at a later time. This posed an interesting question: how do you put an image into a … Continue reading
Application Bar Buttons Are Null
Windows Phone From Scratch #50 In a recent posting, I demonstrated how easy it is to add buttons to the phone’s Application Bar. I went back to that application to disable the “faster” button when the maximum speed was reached. … Continue reading
Double Dutch Double Touch
Windows Phone From Scratch #49 In my previous posting, I demonstrated how to register a touch (or tap) on Windows Phone. Today I will extend that to implement Double-Touch. To begin, I need to go back to the original Touch … Continue reading
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Linq: SelectMany
Windows Phone From Scratch #47 A LINQ Tutorial SelectMany is a crucial operator in both LINQ and in Reactive Extensions. It may be easier to see what it does by focusing on LINQ, as most of us are more familiar … Continue reading
Adding an Application Bar
Windows Phone From Scratch #46 In a recent posting I wrote about creating Conway’s Life for the phone. The application is a tinkerer’s playhouse and I find myself going back to it to add features and tweaks. This morning I … Continue reading
Coding For Fun: Conway’s Life
Windows Phone From Scratch #45 I was feeling a bit restless yesterday, so I decided to see if I couldn’t get a first approximation of Conway’s Life cellular automaton up and running on Windows Phone. I gave myself 1 hour … Continue reading
Testing Network Availability
Windows Phone From Scratch #42 We would like to live in a world in which any time you turn your phone on the network is there, full strength. We’d also like to live in a world of peace and … Continue reading
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Sterling DB on top of Isolated Storage – 2
Windows Phone From Scratch #39 In yesterday’s posting we looked at the Sterling Database. and how to set up and initialize tables, store an retrieve data. Today we’ll build on that to set up the database in App.xaml so … Continue reading
When Isolated Storage Isn’t Enough
Windows Phone From Scratch #38 When you wish to persist state across usages of your application, Isolated Storage allows you to write to the disk and stash away key-value pairs. For state, this is usually sufficient, but if what you … Continue reading
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Tagged Database, Isolated Storage, Mini-Tutorial, Windows Phone, WindowsPhone
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Lambda–Not as weird as it sounds
Windows Phone From Scratch #36 Yesterday I wrote a few posts on LINQ but carefully avoided using Lambda expressions. Now it is time to look at this feature that sounds fierce but is really fairly straight-forward. Lambda expressions are just … Continue reading
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