Yes, indecision is a bad thing, except when its not. The delay in re-starting my open source project has afforded me the opportunity to think of a number of alternative projects that might very well provide more (or more interesting) exploration of Windows Phone 7.
Among the possible projects are:
[Please note that comments and discussion for published tutorials are at http://i2w.CodePlex.com ]
In the previous tutorial we looked at binding data to fields on a Windows Phone 7 page. In this tutorial we take the next step and create a list on a first page and then display the details on a second page. This turns out to be shockingly easy to do, but along the way we’ll uncover some other useful controls and a few subtle features.
This is the fourth of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
There are 100,000 stories in the little city, and this is one of them.
Saturday. 1pm. “One Adam 12, One Adam 12, See the woman, complaining of foul odor, upstairs.” My partner, Charlie and I respond. Bad smell, but I know that smell. Only too well.
Whaddaya’ think Charlie? Somethin dead, eh?
Charlie’s bark was equivocal. He likes to hedge his bets, so he suggests dinner. But no chance.
The woman was nearly hysterical. She has a good nose. Too good.
So I says,
“Time to search the joint. Binary Search. Take half the stuff outta’ the room and put it in the guest room. Wait half an hour. See where the smell is.
So she does like I says and the smell is still in the first room. So we take out half the remaining stuff. Then again. Then again. Captain Zeno suggests that might be enough, and sure enough, we’re down to the furniture. Now there’ ain’t no way I’m taking half a bed out, so I figure the next step is to cut the room in half. So we seal the closet and wait. Sure enough, the smell is in the closet. And the closet is empty.
Time to take out the hardware. We start shooting holes in the wall and exposing hideouts. In about 15 minutes we find the culprit. D.O.A.
Another case closed.
I’m very pleased to say that I’ve moved the source code for the iPhone Developer’s Guide to Windows Phone 7 Programming tutorial series to CodePlex under the MS-Pl license.
When I was a kid, I collected brand names that were also generics (I’m all that’s left of a very bizarre childhood). Among my prizes were
I loved the two dollar bill.
Similarly, being completely in sync with popular opinion, I love dollar coins. They are cheaper for the government, terrific for poker, and they are extraordinarily beautiful.
In recent years, the government released the wonderful Susan B. Anthony dollar (1). It celebrated a great Suffragette and, on the obverse, the landing on the moon (though I’d have preferred the LEM (extra points if you know what the acronym stands for.)When no one used the SB dollars, out came the Skajawia dollars (2). Nice, though her role was overstated by the media, she was instrumental in helping Lewis and Clarke and I would really like to see a woman on our money, but no go. Now, however…
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The task: Create a custom button that has non-standard visual behavior when you hover over it, and when you click it but which otherwise acts exactly like a button.
The idea was to be able to do this in under an hour. This posting will review one solution.
I am please, excited and terrified to announce that Yet Another Podcast will be launching on September 20, 2010.
This is not your momma’s podcast.
Here are my guiding principles:
This is the third of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
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.
As an iPhone Developer your thinking is adapted to and influenced by the Model-View-Controller pattern. The very good news is that the pattern for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) development, MVVM, is very closely related to MVC.