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Windows Phone App 1: Feedr, an RSS reader.
My favorite way to learn a platform/language/technique is to just dive in and experiment, so for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) I started writing some apps. The first one I wrote is “Feedr”, which is an RSS...
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Windows Phone App 2: MobileMobile, a fun game for toddlers.
The second application I wrote for WP7 is a simple and fun game for tiny kids. The name – which I expect will confuse people – is a combination of “mobile” as in “This is running on a mobile phone”,...
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Windows Phone App 3: Fact-Of-The-Day
No prizes for guessing what this application does, but I will reveal it just in case: When you start the application, it loads a bunch of trivia/facts from its own database as well as various RSS...
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The simplest way to do design-time ViewModels with MVVM and Blend.
The problem is this: You’ve created your Views and ViewModels, but when you view them in Blend, you either see nothing, or the data you see is not useful for testing what you want in the view. There...
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Windows Phone App 4: BabySoother
They say necessity is the mother of invention… A new baby plus a few weeks of paternity leave were the drivers in this case. The idea for this app started as a simple white-noise generator, and was...
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A simple pattern for AJAX with MVC
This is mostly brainstorming; I’ve written some proof-of-concept (POC) code, and would love feedback. I expect to hear that this has already been done earlier/better/prettier. The requirements: A very...
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Development Tip – ObservableCollection doesn’t work
NOTE: This post applied in an the early preview of Win8. It’s no longer applicable because the bug in question no longer exists; ObservableCollection works just great Original article below. Just...
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In Windows 8 I want to have a file in my solution which is packaged as part of the application, then read at runtime. It’s not immediately obvious how to do this because the app is running in an...
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Development Tip – Tab Control
I’m trying to replicate a tab control in the Windows 8 //BUILD release. I’m not talking about your traditional tab control with grey tabs and a static appearance; rather something that we’ve seen...
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Development Tip – Dispatching calls to the UI thread
In Silverlight and WPF, if you wanted to update the UI from a thread you had launched, it was important that the UI update be executed on the UI thread, lest you get an invalid-cross-thread-access...
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