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The Accelerometer and the Emulator

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, February 9, 2012
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A Windows Phone Tutorial The Windows Phone 7.1 SDK (formerly known as Mango) includes a new extended emulator that allows you to see the effect of moving the phone when using the accelerometer.  Well ...

Windows 7.5 Video: Fast Application Switching

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, February 8, 2012
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The latest in the Mango Videos series is posted.For the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my blog at http://JesseLiberty.com ...

WebUI Studio.NET 2011 R2 SP1 is now available

ASP.NET Announcements, February 7, 2012
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We are proud to announce that WebUI Studio.NET 2011 R2 SP1 is now available. It contains updates and fixes for: Installer What’s Added ClientUI 6 now ships with native Silverlight 5 a...

Yet Another Podcast #59Lino Tadres

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, February 6, 2012
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Talking with Linio Tadres, CEO of Falafel Software, about programming for the .NET stack. Falafel Software Yet Another Podcast listeners are invited to buy the Falafel e-book Windows Phone 7.5 Nuts & ...

Pixel Manipulation in Silverlight

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 3, 2012
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Pixel Manipulation in Silverlight...

Yet Another Podcast #58Julie Lerman and EF/CF

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 31, 2012
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Talking with  Julie Lerman about Entity Framework and Code-First.  Julies blog Julies Book website Microsoft Entity Framework Developer Center EF Team Blog Domain Driven Design Listen | Yet Another Po...

Playing A Sound, Simplified

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 27, 2012
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Windows Phone Tutorial In a previous posting I discussed how to play a sound using a background process.  That is great when you need the sound to continue playing even if you leave your application. ...

Yet Another Podcast #57Kendo UI

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 23, 2012
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I spoke with Burke Holland, Kendo UI Evangelist, and Todd Anglin, VP of HTML5 Tools for Telerik about their new platform for creating HTML5/JQuery applications: Kendo UI. http://twitter.com/toddanglin...

Full Stack ResumesMVVM Design

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 19, 2012
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The Full Stack project resumes with a bang as Jon Galloway and I talk with John Papa about MVVM design.For the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my blog at http://JesseLiberty.com ...

New Videos Uploaded

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 18, 2012
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Ive recently uploaded a number of new Videos in the Windows Phone 7.5 video series.  The two most recent (uploaded today) are on persisting an image and navigation within an MVVM application.For the c...

Calling Navigate From The View Model

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 17, 2012
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Windows Phone Mini-Tutorial In the third part of the MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts (part 1 is here) I started with an application that had two pages, and a button on the first that was to cause a na...

Creating and exploring a 3D maze with Silverlight 5

MSDN: Coding4Fun, January 11, 2012
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There's something about mazes than amazes me. They seem simple, but the math behind them can be very complicated (at least for a guy like me). Yet they have a draw that's hard to resist. Then there's ...

Yet Another Podcast #56Jeff Blankenburg: Evangelist

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 4, 2012
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Talking with Jeff Blankenburg about his 31 Days of Mango series and what it means to be a Microsoft Evangelist.  Jeffs web site Migrating to Windows Phone 31 Days of Mango e-Book 31 Days of Mango Wind...

Vibrating the phone

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 3, 2012
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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 v...

Binding Formatting

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 29, 2011
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Windows Phone Tutorial When you are binding data there are additional properties that allow you to format the display and to handle errors and null values. The StringFormat property allows you to add ...

Test Results using v2 of the SilverlightSerializer

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, December 24, 2011
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SilverlightSerializer is a fast binary serializer that works in both .NET and Silverlight, allowing you to move your objects between the two instances or store and retrieve them locally in either. It...

DecryptR Part 2

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 21, 2011
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In a recent post, I discussed the DecryptR application I have been toying with.  While the fundamentals are working, there is much to do.  Today Ill make a few minor improvements. First, lets set the ...

Trusted Silverlight Applications

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, December 21, 2011
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SharePoint 2010 Training: more information Silverlight as you know is an A...

Yet Another Podcast #55David Plat on Why Software Sucks

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 16, 2011
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Talking with David Platt, author of Why Software Sucks about software design, both good and bad Davids Web Site   Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CASTFor the complete article ...

Intersoft Solutions Releases WebUI Studio 2011 R2

ASP.NET Announcements, December 14, 2011
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Intersoft Solutions, a global vendor specializing in ready built user interface controls for ASP.NET, Silverlight, and WPF, today announced the official release of WebUI Studio 2011 R2. "Earlier this...

Code signing for the independent developer

Method ~ of ~ failed, December 13, 2011
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One of the features introduced with Silverlight 4 was the out-of-browser feature, enabling you to create an application that can be installed, run offline, automatically updated, etc. As a part of tha...

Silverlight 5 Released with awesome samples in the Silverlight Toolkit

Method ~ of ~ failed, December 12, 2011
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Silverlight 5 is finally released! Congratulations to the team for getting through some of the toughest parts of finishing a product and validating with customers. Its been a pretty crazy year for the...

DecryptRA Glass House Application

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 12, 2011
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Periodically, I like to build a glass house application that is one which I document as I go, hiding nothing and showing all the thinking that goes into the application as well as the raw, not ready-...

Silverlight 5 Released to Web

JohnPapa.net, December 10, 2011
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Silverlight 5 was released to the web yesterday, finalizing the feature list that many of us have been tinkering with in 2011. Im excited that a product I had a very small part in shaping is now out. ...

Silverlight 5

Steven Smith, December 9, 2011
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain Today, Silverlight 5 is released and available for download!  The Release Candidate has been around for some time, and many...

Silverlight 5

Steven Smith, December 9, 2011
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain Today, Silverlight 5 is released and available for download!  The Release Candidate has been around for some time, and many...

Watch this video - Take a tour of DXv2: Touch

The ASPx Blog, December 7, 2011
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Check out the "Take a tour of DXv2: Touch" webinar video: Watch this video to see the full story of DXv2 Touch features Touch For All 4 .NET Platforms DXv2 provides you touch enabled feat...

Silverlight: A Beginner's Guide for Advanced Developers

The Code Project Latest Articles, November 30, 2011
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Appendix: Chapter 11 of Fun with Silverlight 4...

Context Menu

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 30, 2011
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Windows Phone Tutorial The Silverlight For Windows Phone Toolkit is a magnificent collection of controls and utilities for writing Windows Phone applications.  Unfortunately, there is little or no doc...

Yet Another Podcast #54Damian Edwards on ASP.NET

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 29, 2011
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Talking with Damian Edwards and Jon Galloway about the evolution of ASP.NET Web Forms, whats coming in the new Preview and the three UI platforms built on top of ASP.NET Core. Damian is the Program Ma...

Beautiful Page Transitions (Practically) Free

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 29, 2011
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Windows Phone Tutorial I dont just mean you dont pay for the code, or the control, I mean were talking about 2 minutes of effort.  No joke. Step 1 is to download the November Windows Phone Toolkit and...

Intersoft Solutions Releases WebUI Studio 2011 R2

ASP.NET Announcements, November 29, 2011
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Intersoft Solutions, a global vendor specializing in ready built user interface controls for ASP.NET, Silverlight, and WPF, today announced the official release of WebUI Studio 2011 R2. "Earlier this...

ASP.NET - Silverlight How to Call PageMethods

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, November 26, 2011
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Using the Silverlight ScriptObject and ASP.NET ScriptManager control to call PageMethods  read moreBy Peter Bromberg...

Test Driven DevelopmentTesting Private Values

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 25, 2011
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Jon Galloway and I are embarking on the next phase of our Full Stack project and building a Pomodoro timer.  We are (at lest for now) doing this using Test Driven Development.  This immediately raised...

Has Microsoft killed Silverlight?

Patrik Löwendahls shout, November 23, 2011
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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated – Mark Twain The internet is currently full of rumors and reports that Microsoft no longer will develop Silverlight after version 5 is deployed. This co...

A Dozen Windows Phone Videos And Counting

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 22, 2011
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Video #12 was recently posted to The Mango Videos on Channel 9 this a short video on Reminders in Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango).For the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my blog at http://Jes...

Yet Another Podcast #53Scott Hanselman on Blogging

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 21, 2011
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Talking with Scott Hansleman and Jon Galloway about creating great blogs and how to avoid those things that make a blog suck.  Scott s a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, and has one of the most...

Spiking the Pomodoro Timer

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 14, 2011
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I recently wrote about the beginning of phase 2 of the Full Stack project, in which we are building a Pomodoro timer (see also).  To get started, I decided to spike a quick and dirty version, if only ...

Silverlight Training Montreal in November 2011

Laurent Duveau, November 13, 2011
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Still a few seats available for the next Silverlight Tour stop in Montreal, come and learn top Silverlight content from local experts!!! What: Silverlight training When: November 21-24 (4 days) ...

Yet Another Podcast #52Peter Torr on Windows Phone Multitasking

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 8, 2011
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Peter Torr joins Jon Galloway and me to discuss multi-tasking, background agents, the backstack and other new features in Mango. Peters Blog Back Means Back   Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comm...

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 7, 2011
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Suddenly Im talking to a lot more inanimate objects. I recently pulled a muscle in my shoulder, and  Im not supposed to type Thus DragonDictate and I have become good friends. DragonDictate is almost ...

Cost vs. Size of Books

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 5, 2011
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My newest book, Programming Reactive Extensions and LINQ, is released. Im very  excited about this book, and believe that it provides high-quality information that would otherwise be hard to find, cle...

HTML5 and Silverlight 5 presentation material

Laurent Duveau, November 4, 2011
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      Here are the slides we used for the Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 presentation at DevTeach Ottawa 2011 with Frdric Harper (@fharper):   Download the demos: (req...

New Mini-Tutorial Video Series

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 4, 2011
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Im very pleased to announce that Im starting a new video series based on my mini tutorials about Windows phone mango. These will all be posted on Channel 9 and you can also find them listed alphabetic...

APPortunties for Mango WP7 App's

HackingSilverlight, November 4, 2011
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So there is a group of Silverlight/Phone 7 insiders helping with this contest to win some samsung slates running windows 8 and some free advertising for an app of your choice. There was a contest like...

DevTeach Ottawa 2011 Silverlight pre-conference material

Laurent Duveau, November 4, 2011
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     This week in Ottawa, I did a full day workshop on Silverlight, as a pre-conference of the DevTeach Canadian event. I showed how to build from scratch a business application,...

The Full Stack, Phase 2Overview

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 2, 2011
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Windows Phone Tutorial Last year Jon Galloway and I launched the Full Stack experiment,in which we video-documented the creation of a nontrivial application. Today we begin the second phase of this ex...

About

JohnPapa.net, October 31, 2011
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  John Papa is a well-known Silverlight expert and is a former Sr Technical Evangelist for Microsoft on the Silverlight and Windows 8 teams. John, author of 100+ articles and 10 books, specializ...

Background Audio Part II: Copying Audio Files To Isolated Storage

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, October 27, 2011
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Windows Phone Tutorial In a previous article I showed how to use the audio background task agent to run the audio even when your application is no longer in the foreground. In that article we used aud...

On Comments

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, October 24, 2011
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I received this email today:  I bought your book “Teach yourself C++ in 1 Hour a Day” and on page 37 you say  that “The bottom line is that comments should not say what is happening, they should say w...