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Announcing a new user group

Dear Slovenian developers and UI enthusiasts, mark your calendars for 8th of November 2011 as that’s the day we’re launching a new user group targeting the UI/UX professionals. SIUX – Slovenian UX User Group – a sister user group (or a Siamese twin group...

Published 10-28-2011 12:06 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Software, Community, Silverlight, WPF, Tech, User Experience, general, WP7, Talks, Windows 8, WinRT, Metro

Localizing the August 2011 Windows Phone Toolkit

Great news! A new version of Windows Phone Toolkit was released today. These bits target the “Mango” OS (which translates to SDK v7.1). The “pre-Mango” version (7.0) will follow in a short-while. Download the Toolkit from Codeplex . Available also on...

Published 08-18-2011 1:53 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Development, WP7

On a path to a generic About page

Since every Windows Phone application should have some kind of About page, I wanted to see if I could build a generic page that I would reuse in my other apps. These are a few tips I picked up during building such a page: 1. The About page is rarely accessed...

Published 08-16-2011 23:48 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Development, WP7

Windows Phone Pivot and loading content

Rewatching the Windows Phone Application Performance MIX10 talk by Jeff Wilcox , I took a note of one particular part where he clearly answers a question I’ve been asked a few times by now already. This question is based around the confusing statement...

Published 08-12-2011 10:37 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Development, User Experience, WP7

NTK2011: Slides and sample code: MVVM

MVVM is a topic that can easily take hours of discussion. Unfortunately, I only had less then one to talk about (at least some of) its goals, parts and possible implementations. Below is my slide deck: And the code: download The code is structured in...

Published 06-09-2011 21:38 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Expression, Development, MVVM, Design, Behaviors, WP7, Talks

NTK 2011 Sample Code: What’s new in Silverlight 5

My “What’s new in Silverlight 5” session at NTK was mostly about showing sample code and samples, so no slide deck this time. The enclosed Visual Studio Silverlight project is configured for running Out-of-Browser, with GPU acceleration enabled, and requiring...

Published 06-04-2011 23:56 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Talks

NTK 2011 Slides: Silverlight and NUI

I’m publishing the materials from my “Silverlight and NUI” talk from this year NT conference . The talk, where I took the time to dig a bit deeper into Silverlight multi-touch and web camera access capabilities, was part of the whole-day track, themed...

Published 05-31-2011 0:20 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Development, User Experience, Behaviors, Talks

Comparing heating costs using Silverlight

Out of curiosity I’ve decided to compare actual heating costs versus theoretical heating costs. The calculation shows how much it would cost If I used a modern conditioner instead of a centralized heating provided by city and fuelled by natural gas. Hence...

Published 03-07-2011 9:48 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Slovenia, DevExpress

Dynamic Forms Redux 2: Windows Phone 7

One of the more popular posts on my blog here were the Dynamic Forms for Silverlight series I did a couple of years ago. Dynamic forms are useful for cases when you want to compose a form on the server and the client just renders it based on the provided...

Published 02-21-2011 11:15 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Development, MVVM, WP7

Twedge, a simple Silverlight 4 twitter widget

Today’s brief IM conversation about twedge reminded me about this project I put together in the last minute for a local conference last May. Twedge is a simple twitter widget, build with Silverlight 4. You can specify some colors, time interval...

Published 01-26-2011 3:35 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Software, Community, Silverlight, Development, Tech

Windows Phone 7 natečaj

Si se pripravljen pomeriti z najboljšimi slovenskimi programerji in svojo aplikacijo predstaviti na tisoče uporabnikom? Si vešč Microsoftovih razvojnih orodij ali poln idej? Potem je natečaj M:Windows Phone 7 nekaj zate! Tekmovanje v treh...

Published 01-18-2011 15:11 by MsBlogs

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Reactive.buffering.from event.

Reactive? This post is continuing the series about Reactive Extensions , a powerful little framework currently available for .NET 3.5 & 4, Silverlight 3/4, Windows Phone 7 and JavaScript, that Microsoft’s Dev Labs are working on. Buffering?...

Published 01-01-2011 15:14 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Development, Rx, WP7

My “What’s new in Silverlight 4 demo” app

What’s new in Silverlight 4 ? Isn’t Silverlight 4, like, old news by now? Well yes, as the matter of fact, this is one of those long overdue posts that have a hard time getting out. As I’ve been showing these demos since Silverlight 4 Beta came out, this...

Published 12-28-2010 18:00 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Development, MEF

Slides: Application Development for Windows Phone 7

I had the pleasure of participating in the local Microsoft roadshow that was going on in the past month. 4 talks. 4 cities. 1 subject: Application Development for Windows Phone 7. I said I’d publish the slides. Here . Also, from last I’ve heard, the situation...

Published 12-21-2010 9:43 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Tech, WP7

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