If you have seen any of the demos for the Windows Phone 7 you may have seen or heard about the concept of its Toast Notification. A Toast Notification is a way for the device to receive a message which originates from some webservice and can be used to display useful information to a user. ...
Before our WP7 detour , we were deep in the thick of Actions . I mentioned that there was one more compelling feature of the Actions concept called Coroutines. If you haven’t heard that term before, here’s what wikipedia * has to say: In computer science , coroutines are program components...
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As we get closer to the launch of WP7 (Windows Phone 7) more and more developers are starting to play around with the SDK and build out applications. Since WP7 supports Silverlight 3+ (3+ means it is basically Silverlight 3 w/ some tweaks to work in a multi-touch environment) it is logical to think...
Hopefully, previous articles have you up to speed on what Caliburn.Micro is , its basic configuration , and how to take advantage of a few of its features . In this part, I want to talk about some WP7 specifics issues. It’s unfortunate that I have to call out WP7, but your going to find that while...
If you are building out a WP7 (or just a standard Silverlight application) and you are following the MVVM design pattern you may be a left wondering how to handle the selectionChanged event in a Listbox without the use of a code behind. For this post we are using the MVVMLight framework to accomplish...
While working on an application targeted towards WP7 I wanted to have the application change style resource which was attached to a border element based on a value (aka a status) in my view model. After searching around for a bit I was not able to come up w/ a complete end to end solution, only bits...
If you are trying to create a WP7 (or any silverlight project for that matter) and you are trying to access a WCF web service you may receive the following error when you try to create an instance of the WCF service. Cannot find 'ServiceReferences.ClientConfig' in the .xap application package...