The basic story around development for Windows Phone is that it’s part of a larger application strategy. You have a couple base technologies ( Silverlight and XNA) and 3 screens (WP7, Xbox LIVE, Windows 7). Various pieces parts are in play...
Yes, it’s true. The king of Windows programming books, Charles Petzold, has a new project in the works. He’s writing a book about Windows Phone 7 Series development. Here is an excerpt. Sometimes it becomes apparent that...
MIX10 is all abuzz with Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7 . So let’s get right to the meat of it. You know it’s going to be a demo-packed keynote when ScottGu is the opening speaker. He’s known for talking a little, demo’ing a lot, and writing...
Those of us who remember the Microsoft of ten or fifteen years ago recall the interminable long development cycles for certain products. Sometimes, it seemed that half a decade would pass before a new version of big product would ship. Project velocity...
All fantastic books. There are other great books, but for me these are the essentials. 1. How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman // AmazonThis is the book to read if you want to understand...
Some people might find this useful, so I thought I’d write it up. If you want to create a multi-language MSI (Windows Installer package) that works without a bootstrapper executable, this is one possible way to do it. It relies on an undocumented feature...
Tomorrow I kiss the wife and baby goodbye (sadly) and hop on a plane heading to Mix in Las Vegas . This year I have the unique honor and privilege to present “Build Your Own MVVM Framework.” I’ll be speaking Monday afternoon at 3:30...
A month or so ago I submitted my talk Thinking Outside the Battleship Gray Box for consideration at this year's CodeStock in Knoxville, TN. This talk will be based off the presentation I did at the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup last month taking into...
I am very lucky to say that I'll be at Mix 2010 next week. As excited as I am about the event itself, I'm perhaps more excited knowing that I'll come back with the tools to get cracking on development for Windows Phone 7: The development platforms...
Getting ready to fly to Vegas and MIX10 is really an exciting time! It is also a very busy time, because we are working on a few projects that will be shown on stage, I have my presentation to prepare, and of course as always the book… though these days...
Stating the problem
I need a place to store my streaming media files. I used the Silverlight streaming site for awhile, but Microsoft Azure came along and killed off the site. Azure is a more general purpose application hosting...
We’re currently hard at work on WPF Studio 2010.1 , which we hope to launch in the next couple months. We plan on it including a number of enhancements to existing products along with a brand new unannounced product. Now that .NET 4.0 is almost...
Microsoft has published the schedule for the MIX10 sessions. I have a sweet spot, and I dearly hope that it stays this way (Last year I had a great spot, but it was changed last minute and then I had a much better one, “competing” against Vertigo and...
Last week I got the opportunity to present at the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup . I presented a talk entitled 'Thinking Outside the Battleship Gray Box' primarily focused on UI manipulations. Here was the synopsis: As developers, we’ve grown accustomed...
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