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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 as we fondly call it ) of now years-running SLODUG...
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My latest Windows Phone application was published to the marketplace a few days ago: MapSnapper is a simple utility application that utilizes static Bing maps feature to capture a favorite piece of Earth with your Windows Phone. In its essence, the application lets you navigate a map of the world, using...
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My latest Windows Phone application found its way to the Microsoft marketplace. Bikes is designed to help bicyclists that use city bicycle sharing systems across Europe to find nearest stations, provide some basic info about available bikes and free parking slots for each of those stations. Here’s a...
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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 NuGet . One of the new features coming with this release...
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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 so I put it in a separate assembly. This way...
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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 that Pivot controls are supposed to be lazy loading...
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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 a way that helps you see the changes in the code while...
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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 field types. This days it’s all about Windows...
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Thought I’d give this one a try – 5 posts that were accessed by visitors of my blog the most and were posted in 2010: 1. Add version 4 components to your Silverlight 3 application with MEF : I wrote about using MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) to import and offer additional capabilities to users...
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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? In this post, I’ll look into two reactive operators...
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I had a pleasure of using a Windows Phone 7 device (LG Optimus 7 to be exact) for the past month and this is me sharing my experience with it. A quick note on my phone background: I’ve been using an iPhone for the past two years and am used to my wife’s HTC Hero (Android). The thing is – I had to switch...
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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 for WP7 developers in Slovenia is improving...
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Well, I thought it would be neat to have a transparent screen on my WP7 phone so I went and created a fully transparent 480x800 image and saved it as a PNG. Of course Zune software didn’t allow me to sync it with the phone (doesn’t support PNGs) so I renamed the image to JPG, which synced perfectly ...
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Following the theme from my previous two posts, this post will be about using Reactive Extensions on Windows Phone 7. I'll use a similar scenario as before – gradually load a few tiles into an ItemsControl. Let’s get started. Starting a project Create a new “Windows Phone Application”. Add references...