One of the key dilemmas facing Windows Phone 7 programmers is how we maintain an extremely responsive experience for the user, provide some sort of multi-tasking and preserve battery life, all at the same time? The solution offered by Windows Phone 7 is to tombstone applications when they are inactive. This tutorial will explore tombstoning, multi-tasking and the entire application life cycle in detail.
The iPhone and Windows Phone 7 share the same dilemma: how do we maintain an extremely responsive experience for the user, provide some sort of multi-tasking and preserve battery life, all at the same time? The solution offered by Windows Phone 7 is to tombstone applications when they are inactive. This tutorial will explore tombstoning, multi-tasking and the entire application life cycle in detail.
This is an answer to Part 4 of the Great Silverlight Competency Test. Scoring below.
The tasks were to demonstrate usage of the DataGrid, DataPager and TreeView. Here is one approach…
This is the Fifth 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.
Some of you have expressed interested in either or both of the current tutorial series
To make it easier to follow these, and to encourage comments, participation and suggestions, I’ve created two CodePlex projects (with discussions, etc.)
In addition, you can follow the progress and planning on the associated Kanban board. Just log in here and use the email address TutorialReader@jliberty.com and the password 2torial.
While there is much you can “pick up as you go” if you are an Objective-C programmer, understanding some of the fundamental differences in C# can save you a great deal of time and confusion. But programming Windows Phone 7 involves two languages, C# and Xaml, and fully grokking Xaml and the relationship between the declarative Xaml and the object-oriented C# takes some getting used to.
Talking with Jon Galloway of Herding Code & Microsoft, about Alt.net and Open Source and the role of technical evangelists.
Products mentioned: Audacity
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Today is a great release day. We’ve launched everything you need to write Windows Phone 7 applications. Not only that, but we’ve also released XNA 4.0 not only for phone, but for all supported XNA platforms.
This is an answer to part 3 of the Great SL Competency Test, in which you were asked to demonstrate
In a previous blog post I talked about task management, in this post I talk about managing projects: especially software projects; especially software projects in an Agile development environment. Project management, is of course, a topic near and dear to the heart of all developers; it is the part of our jobs we like most and the only greater joy in life is spending six months in the dentist’s chair.
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.
