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the telerik blogs, June 12, 2013
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One of the challenges when developing an application is to give visual indication while a long running process is occurring. In Silverlight this can be easily achieved using the RadBusyIndicator contr...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, June 8, 2013
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In July of 2011 I shamelessly followed Jeff Blankenburgs lead in writing Whats In Your Laptop Bag? Today I do it again. On May 30, Jeff wrote a post Whats On Your Desk? That seemed like such a great ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, May 29, 2013
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Incredibly proud to say Ive released my 5th Pluralsight course: C# From Scratch. C# is one of the most popular languages on the planet and with good reason. It is the language of choice for .NET and f...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, May 28, 2013
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John Bristowe joins John Galloway and me to talk about HTML5 and also to talk about putting the web on a diet. John is a fascinating and very passionate ex-Microsoft Evangelist and current Telerik Ev...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, May 20, 2013
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Incredibly proud to say Ive released my 4th Pluralsight course: JavaScript From Scratch. JavaScript is one of the most popular languages on the planet. In this course, you will learn all you need to ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, May 14, 2013
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Jeff Fritz joins Jon Galloway and me to discuss ASP.NET, MVC, HTML5, JavaScript, Agile programming and a whole lot more. Jeffrey T. Fritz – or simply “Fritz” is an ASPInsider and Developer Evangelist...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, May 5, 2013
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Today, I find myself in Tel-Aviv in preparation for the SELA conference this week. It has been 40 years since I have been in Israel. Back then, as a boy of 17, I thought I wanted to move here, and ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, April 29, 2013
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Jon Galloway and I are joined by Chris Sells, VP of Telerik, to discuss Chris illustrious career spanning a couple decades and some of the most important companies in the industry, including Intel, De...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, April 26, 2013
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Incredibly proud to say Ive released my 3rd Pluralsight course: WPF For the Enterprise From Scratch. WPF is and remains the premier framework for building Line of Business/ Enterprise Windows applica...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, April 22, 2013
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Talking with John Papa and Jon Galloway about Single Page Applications (SPA) and also about public speaking. Johns blog John on Pluralsight Listen | Yet Another PodcastFor the complete article and hyp...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, April 14, 2013
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Talking with Microsofts Rey Bango on Open Web standards and testing IE. Modern IE WebPlatform Reys Blog Listen | Yet Another PodcastFor the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my blog...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, April 5, 2013
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Im incredibly proud to say that Ive published my second Pluralsight course, Windows 8 Application Development With XAML and C# From Design to Delivery. This course follows the design and development o...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, April 2, 2013
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Talking with Phil Haack and Jon Galloway about Git, GitHub, GitHub for Windows, organizational structure and much more. Campfire GitHub GitHub for Windows Phils Blog Think Like (A) Git Emoji Listen | ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, March 29, 2013
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Todays Windows Developer faces a crucial decision: whether to build for the new (shiny!) Windows 8 Store or to build for the Desktop. There are significant advantages to each, and they are, more or l...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, March 19, 2013
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Shameless self-promotion warning! I have released my first (but not last) Pluralsight course, Windows 8 From Start To Store. This XAML and C# based course covers everything from design fundamentals ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, March 18, 2013
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Talking with Shawn and Jon Galloway about Windows 8 Development, XAML, HTML5, tools, training and much more. Shawns Blog Wilder Minds HowToWat.ch Listen | Yet Another Podcast For the complete articl...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, March 14, 2013
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In a previous blog post, I showed the repository pattern with local or remote data storage. In this blog post, based in part on work done for my upcoming book Pro Windows 8 With C# and XAML by Jesse ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, March 4, 2013
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Discussion with Jeremy Likness about the state of Windows 8, where things are going and what to expect in the near future. Jeremy also discusses his existing and forthcoming books and the Sterling Da...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, February 21, 2013
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Yesterday, we looked at being a sharing source. This was surprisingly easy. Being a target would be more complex except that Visual Studio provides a template that greatly simplifies the process. By...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, February 20, 2013
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Everybody loves to share. (At least after they are beaten into doing so in pre-school.) The ability to share from one application to another can be anything from useful to critical. Historically, we...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, February 19, 2013
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In a previous post, I showed a bit about how to implement the Search contract. Once you understand the changes to Package.appxmanifest and App.xaml.cs, however, you can save yourself the bother of mu...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, February 13, 2013
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In a previous post, I explained how to store data to a known location such as the My Documents folder. Often, however, you will want to store local data to a subfolder of AppData on the users disk. Th...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, February 9, 2013
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While your Windows 8 Store application is running, you want to be saving data all the time. After all, the user can switch to another application at any time, and you only have five seconds to store ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, February 5, 2013
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With chrome pushed out of Windows 8 Store applications, most of the navigation has been moved into the AppBar. A good AppBar has buttons that are easy to reach and easy to recognize. You can create y...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 30, 2013
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While there is much work yet to be done on Conference Buddy on the client side, it isnt too early to start thinking about how well store data on a server. One option that might be ideal would be to … ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 29, 2013
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Discussion with Pete Brown, Microsoft Evangelist, on creating great Windows 8 applications. We also discuss his forthcoming book on Windows 8, hardware, good software design and much more. Links Pet...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 21, 2013
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Microsoft Visual Studio offers a number of templates for building Windows 8 applications. In most of my postings, weve been using the Blank application template, but the Grid App template is extremely...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 21, 2013
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Talking with Phil Japikse of Telerik about Windows 8 programming with WinJS. Phils blog Phils blog on Telerik Listen | Yet Another Podcast For the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my bl...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 15, 2013
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Talking with Laurent Bugnion about MVVM in detail, including the ins and outs of commanding and managing events in Windows 8. MVVM Light Laurents blog IdentityMine Behaviors for Windows 8 (Joost van...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 6, 2013
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Talking with Chris Bowen, Principal Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, about developing games for Windows 8 Store. Chris Blog Listen | Yet Another Podcast For the complete article and hyperlinks, p...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 30, 2012
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Talking with Rob Eisenberg, a .NET architect and developer working out of Tallahassee, FL. Rob is the President of Blue Spire Consulting and he publishes technical articles regularly at devlicio.us an...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 28, 2012
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Much of the animation that you want in your application is already built in. Pages and objects make their transitions smoothly. At times, however, adding a bit more animation can make the difference ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 27, 2012
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Id like to have a page in Conference Buddy that lists all the customer contacts. Were currently writing these contacts to file in JSON format as described in this article. My goal for today is to re...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 26, 2012
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In a previous posting I demonstrated how you can create a powerful display of grouped data using the GridView, which is typically used to fill the screen. Every Windows 8 application must also suppor...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 19, 2012
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This is a not-to-miss podcast on Azure Mobile Services, which tremendously simplifies databases, authentication and push notifications for your Windows 8, Windows Phone, IOS and etc. applications. Jos...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 17, 2012
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GridView is one of the most powerful out-of-the-box controls in Windows 8, but fully understanding how to use it is not necessarily trivial. The complexity, I believe, comes because GridViews are oft...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 17, 2012
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In my most recent posting on Conference Buddy, I showed how to store the data well be accumulating in JSON format. Today, Ill show how to write that JSON data to a file for local storage. Lets retur...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 13, 2012
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In an earlier postings I described the project that Ill be creating with Phil Japikse and Michael Crump, code-named Conference Buddy. In a recent posting we looked at a wire-frame that illustrated s...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 12, 2012
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In an earlier postings I described the project that Ill be creating with Phil Japikse and Michael Crump, code-named Conference Buddy. In the most recent posting, we looked at a wire-frame that illust...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 10, 2012
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Fritz Onion, one of the founding members of pluralsight, joins me to discuss on-line learning, pluralsights business model, where the opportunities are for instructors and students and much more. Fri...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 6, 2012
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WinRT XAML supports system-driven spell checking and auto-complete. Built in and right out of the box. The figure shows spell checking at work. Notice the squiggly underlining of the misspelled word, ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 4, 2012
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In an earlier post I introduced the initial wire-frame design for an application that Ill be creating from scratch in XAML and C#, tentatively named Conference Buddy. As noted in that article, Phil J...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, December 3, 2012
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Chris Eargle, Technical Evangelist for Telerik, joins me in a discussion of C#, advanced LINQ and some of the esoteric corners of C# and functional coding. Chris Blog Chris on Twitter Chris Profile...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 29, 2012
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In a previous article I discussed the project that Ill be building in Windows 8. We started with a couple screen mock-ups and then passed these to the designers who came back with preliminary designs...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 29, 2012
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In this posting, well look at how to track location coordinates in Windows 8. (Click on image for full size) In order to get this to work, we need to be able to obtain the values were displaying (e.g...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 28, 2012
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In a previous posting I described the IvyBridge Ultrabook I was given to review. This is the third and final review. In short, this is a great machine, and it has been my primary laptop since I got...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 26, 2012
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Jon Galloway joins me for a wrap up of what is new in Azure, ASP.NET and surrounding technologies. A /build wrap up that starts with the Day 2 Keynote and walks through all the new cool stuff coming ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 19, 2012
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Flying home from Desert Code Camp yesterday I noticed that one or two of the passengers had a new type of reading device in which each page of the book was on a separate piece of paper, all glued toge...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 19, 2012
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Guy Smith Ferrier is an internationalization software architect located in the UK. We discuss internationalization, globalization and localization (which are not, I learn, all the same thing!) Relate...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, November 14, 2012
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Phil Japikse, Michael Crump and I set out to create three related applications from scratch. That is, a Windows 8 version written in XAML with C# (me), a Windows 8 version written in JavaScript (Phil...