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Bookreview: Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

Excellent Reference for Professional Silverlight Development (4 stars) Over all the book is great. it comes all the key areas, has lots of samples and is a great reference. I liked the fact that it s...

Managing Data and Media in Silverlight

As a Silverlight MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) and book lover I tend to have a lot of Silverlight books if not all of them that were ever published. that being said I'd say that this is o...

Windows Phone Unleashed

All Day of Hands on Programming, B.Y.O. Laptop!Windows Phone 7 is HOT! Come check out Windows Phone 7 Unleashed for everything you need to know to develop for WP7. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or...

Windows Phone 7 Development Using Visual Studio 2010

with David Kelley and AppDevWindows Phone 7 is a new step for Microsoft for the mobile platform. This course will introduce the mobile OS and how easy it is to use the.NET knowledge to create applicat...

The Last Silverlight Post Coming Out of the Closet

The intended audience of the book 'Hacking Silverlight' was primarily the seasoned professional Silverlight developer who has one or more Web 2.0 projects under their belt. Designed to help that devel...

Turning XAML into an image (jpg) in WP7 isolated storage and to the Phone Media Library

So one thing that has been kind a trick since the old avalon then wpf days was to be able to can a snap shot of part of the visual tree and make that an image so that you can clean up the visual tree ...

So You Want To Build Apps?

If you want to build apps for any number of mobile devices we thought we would provide those resources to you. The emerging mobile application space has exploded in recent years with developers even a...

Those Darn Gray Box's

(if you just need the hack er I mean 'solution' skip to the end)ok so I was talking or rather tweeting with @ColinEberhardt about this issue with the gray box in IE on #wp7 (see his post at: https://g...

APPortunties for Mango WP7 App's

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...

HTMLApplicationHost Framework Posted to Codeplex

One of my projects has been building an HTML Application framework for phone 7. Basically so I can build HTML5 based applications using HTML, JavaScript and CSS for mobile devices in particular Windo...

The Metro Design Aesthetic and Windows 8 and the new Gesture Language

In next months Seattle Interactive Conference check out David Kelleys session on Metro Design Aesthetic and Windows 8 and the new Gesture Language.Abstract: Building off the Metro Aesthetic designed f...

The Crazy Ones, One More Thing and Apple

I found out today that Steve Jobs has died today. I know over the years I've had a love hate relationship with Apple, some of you know me for my work as a Silverlight MVP drinking the kooliade but in...

Windows 8 and what it means for Silverlight and the coming Slate Wars

What does Windows 8 mean to the Silverlight world? To be honest the past year has been kind of a let down with some certain ms employee's saying this that or the other thing that really effectively k...

David J Kelley Named Phone 7 Developer Hero of the Week

Microsoft Names David Kelley Windows Phone 7 Developer of the Week Hero:""David Kelleys background in UX and as a Silverlight MVP set him up to be a great mobile app developer, which lets him pursue...

29 Ways to make your wp7 app killer and make money

So you want a make a killer phone 7 app? make it into the top 100? well I've managed to have 3 of my apps in the top 100 and here is what I learned. Free Apps (1) are the only way to go. As a deve...

Book Review: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7

One of the most important developer space's on the Microsoft stack is the still emerging LOB app space for phone 7. This particular book is focused on SharePoint 2010 applications on Phone 7 which is...

What is User Experience Design (UX Design) ?

An article I wrote for Media Magazine:Many people including you probably have no idea who I am and frankly sometimes I dont know who I am but sufficeth to say my name is David Kelley and Im a UX profe...

Using HTML App Host Tasks from the ECMA Script Context

Using the task framework (http://htmlappwp7.codeplex.com/ and the taskprocessor are pretty easy. Basically it needs to look like this: window.external.notify(""Email:pieseczek@hotmail.com:Email from...

Building an HTML/HTML5... Based Application for Phone 7

So you want to build an HTML based application for phone 7, but wait there is not a way or at least a 'supported' way of doing that for phone 7. Why would you want to? For for starters wouldn't it b...

Monetizing Phone 7 Application Methods and Approaches

The past 6 months have been a bit of a wild ride with Phone 7 going live and all the apps Ive been working on. I guess I really started preparing for phone 7 the end of 09 heading into MIX 10 where I ...

A Letter to Some Listing to Silverlight Haters...

I guess up front this topic is one of my hot buttons but Ill try to be as even as possible in my explanation. But in fairness I do have a vested interest in Silverlight as a Silverlight MVP for the p...

Creating Borders in Silverlight

So this might seem simple enough but I was asked a couple times recently so I thought I would put a post out there on topic, ok so its more of a half tweet half blog post as its pretty simple but here...

Simple Twitter Integration

A few posts ago I did a quick post on simple Facebook integration but in HTML . Twitter is even simpler and this method can be applied to Silverlight easy enough. First lets look at the HTML version...

Silverlight TV 61: Chat on Deep Zoom, Touch, and Windows Phone 7

Wirestone shares his experience creating rich experiences with Silverlight. David has been involved with many high profile applications and he shows off both the Jordan Deep Zoom mosaic and his Simon ...

App Development for Windows Phone 7 101

App support for the Windows Phone 7 platform is occurring at an accelerated rate. At one time the quantity of available apps was in the hundreds, now its in the thousands. Some of this acceleration is...

HTML 5 Is Dead!

gasp what? How can that be? What can this guy be talking about? What can this blogger possibly know and why would he say something so sacrilegious? Im aghastIm sure that is the kind of response that m...

Achieving Digital Zen in Retail at MIX11

Vote for my session at mix11:Abstract:The road to Digital Zen in building cohesive, immersive experiences in retail from the web to touch walls in the real world can be long. This session is about the...

Achieving Digital Zen in Retail

""My thing is more or less about embracing the digital space, integrated experience, and fluid emotional connections with a target demographic. I want to hear wow thats cool! Thats when I know its a...

Simple Facebook Integration

So strickly speaking this isn't about Silverlight but it is cool and relates a bit to what I do when I blog or build sites that use Silverlight. Basically here is how to add a facebook 'like' feature...

Making the MS Adcontrol REALLY work on phone 7

So you want to use ad's in your windows phone 7 apps as a revenue stream and you followed the directions and it seems like it 'may' work but alas everyone that that has your app never see's an ad and ...

Windows Phone 7 Socket Support...

or not...if you have a dev account and or otherwise unlock your phone you can run unmanaged code... again Jeremiah does a wonderful hack with source using sockets on phone 7... don't worry this is ano...

What I tell Designers to give me... Integretaing and Digital Zen

Having composite teams with designers, integrators, dev's and the like on staff on the same time and working all in a unified set of tools like say, Expression Blend, Visual Studio, Silverlight etc et...

Performance Optimization on Phone 7

A preview of an article I wrote for Code magazine. For the rest you'll need to wait for the magazine to come out. (oh and this is the unedited version so don't get to upset about things like passive ...

Using the Visual State Manager

Part of the job of the designer or creative that you typically see being done in Expression Blend is skinning and templating controls, views, and other objects. For the most part, all controls have bu...

Building and Using Expression Blend Behaviors

Behaviors are a cool way of adding functionality to XAML design elements in Expression Blend. The idea is that some rich functionality that would be hard for a designer to do can be wrapped in a way t...

Codeplex Projects Everyone Should Know About

(a guest post by Ryan Davidson and chapter 3 of Hacking Silverlight)First of all, we should probably explain what Codeplex is. Codeplex.com is a collaborative website where individual contributors cre...

Why Use the MVVM Pattern with Silverlight Applications?

The probability of hearing or reading about the title question of this article if you are either a Silverlight or WPF developer is substantial. However, there are significant problems when searching f...

LayoutTransform RenderTransform Size Resize Sizing Xaml Hack and black magic...

ok, so this is just really making me tired all over. about every size months or so I run into this problem but really after solving it I nicely forget until it hits me in the face again. So amoung the...

9 Speaking Engagements in the space of 5 weeks... about Silverlight

I think my head will explode or I'll get pretty good at it :) but here is my speaking engagements over the next four weeks oh and this is getting off from presenting at the big IxDA/Interact event 2 w...

Professional Silverlight 4 - Book Review

ok, truth be known I helped write this book (a small part) and so I won't comment on the part that I did. but still it is pretty awesome, fine maybe the architecture section was light but WROX is abo...

Windows Phone 7 UX with David Kelley (thats me)

Had a great time talking about phone 7 ux this morning on MSDN Radio doing a podcast. Here are some great phone 7 resources related to touch and UX:Phone 7 Links:http://developer.windowsphone.com/wind...

Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration

My first response to this is just say no. But, my personal biases against sharepoint aside, alot of people need to work with Sharepoint including myself in the past so with some trepidation I agreed ...

Once in a life time you get the chance to hire a Luminary

Industry #Luminary & #Silverlight #MVP is looking for his next role, the race is on, if u'd like to have a rock star @ your company see @WynApse author of Silverlight Cream. see http://geekswithbl...

Getting the Root Visual in Phone7

ok, so this should have been easy for me but for some reason it took a half hour to figure it out so I figure it must be something that some one else might struggle just in case. That being the case ...

The Difference Between Silverlight and Silverlight Based Phone 7 Apps

The past week I was asked a couple times about the difference between Silverlight and Silverlight for phone 7. Really? Other then a few minor technical differences in the most current version of Sil...

Updates to Silverlight Code Browser

A couple of bits of news. I did a number of updates to the HackingSilverlightCodeBrowser here:http://www.hackingsilverlight.net/HackingSilverlightCodeBrowser.html including things like MEF and Isolate...

Isolated Storage Made Easy

In its most simple form Isolated Storage allows you to save name value pairs and retrieve them at some other time the next time your app runs. Granted we could get into XML and text files etc but I'm ...

Dependency Properties Made Easy

ok so I found that for some reason I thought I did a post on this before and I couldn't find it. So I thought I would make a new post as simple as possible. Here is a simple dp:public readonly Depende...

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook

Alas I find my self doing another book review... its not clear to me that I should continue to do that but on this particular book it heads in the right direction. As noted in an earlier post I find t...

Silverlight Connections - Vegas Nov 1-4

got asked to speak at SilverlightConnections in Vegas in Nov. :) topics include: 'Breaking Down Walls The Story of Getting designers and developers working together in an Agency Environment' and 'Mul...

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