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Talking with Michael Crump about The Ten Things Silverlight Programmers Should Know About Windows 8 based on a number of presentations Michael has been giving lately on Win8. Michaels Blog Michaels T...
Talking with John Papa and Jon Galloway about Javascript, JavaScript libraries and JavaScript patterns. John Papas Web Site Jon Galloways Web Site JsRender course toastr Knockout course Sammy JsRende...
While ListBox and ComboBox continue to work in Windows 8, their use is discouraged. They are not designed well for touch input and there are new and more powerful controls in WinRT that you can use in...
Lets start with something relatively easy navigating between pages in Windows 8. Create a new application in Visual Studio 11. Add two BlankPages to the application, naming the first Page1.xaml and t...
As part of my new work for Telerik, and in preparation for writing a book on Windows 8 XAML programming for APress, Ive been digging into Win 8. Rather than waiting for it all to become clear, Ive de...
Talking with Shawn Wildermuth about Windows 8 Development. Shawn Wildermuth is a nine-time Microsoft MVP (Data), member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and an author of seven books and dozens of article...
Talking with Joe Stagner about Mozilla and open source software and the open source culture. Joes Blog Joe on Twitter: @MisfitGeek Mozilla Apps Documentation Mozilla Hacks Blog Mozilla Marketplace App...
Talking with Phil Japikse about Agile programming. An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with ....
After (nearly) five years at Microsoft, I have left to take a position as XAML Evangelist at Telerik. My experiences at Microsoft were terrific, and I had the opportunity to meet and come to know s...
Talking with Steve Sanderson, John Papa and Jon Galloway about Knockout.js and client side JavaScript programming. KnockoutJS Home Steve Sandersons Home Page John Papas Home Page Jon Galloways Home Pa...
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 ...
The latest in the Mango Videos series is posted.For the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my blog at http://JesseLiberty.com ...
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 & ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Talking with Shawn Wildermuth & Jon Galloway about the //Build conference, Xaml programming in the post-//build world, exciting opportunities in learning new platforms, his forthcoming books and cours...
When you are playing audio in your application you may not want that audio to stop when the user switches to another application. Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) brings Background Audio using the Backgroun...
A Windows Phone Mini-Series In part 1 of this series, I provided links to downloading and installing Windows Phone Mango. In this, part 2, Ill provide links about one of the most important new featur...
A Windows Phone Mini-Series There are hundreds of great new features in Mango, and Windows Phone programmers will want that transition to be as smooth as possible. Margaret Parsons and I have been bus...
Windows Phone Tutorial Mango brings a number of new features to support background processing; many of which Ill be covering in coming days and weeks. The most general of all of these is the Backgrou...
Talking with Rob Cameron, Architect Evangelist for Microsoft, and APress author of Pro Windows Phone 7 Development. Listen | Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CASTFor the complete articl...
If this doesnt convince you that it is worthwhile to learn Blend and Behaviors Open a new phone project in Blend and drag a shape onto the artboard (e.g., an ellipse). Click on Assets > Behaviors and ...
Windows Phone Tutorial If you just add a DateTime Picker (from the Windows Phone Toolkit) to your application, it will work but its icons will be very unsatisfactory just a pair of Xs. To get the pr...
Windows Phone Tutorial In a recent posting I showed how to create a quick OData service using Entity-Framework Code-First and SQLCE4. In this posting Ill show how to create a simple Windows Phone cli...
I presented on Windows Phone Xaml Programming at the //build conference. It was great fun. You can watch the video here.For the complete article and hyperlinks, please visit my blog at http://JesseLib...
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