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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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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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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 elevated permissions. It’s basically a very...
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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 as “Building applications with NUI”. [The slides...
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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 I crafted a simple Silverlight application using...
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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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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 and search terms for displaying tweets through the...
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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 kategorijah V natečaju M:Windows Phone 7, ki ga...
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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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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 is really the high time I release the source code...
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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...