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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. ...
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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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Rob Eisenberg
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08-21-2010
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Filed under: WPF, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, DSL, RIA, Tutorial, MEF, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7
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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...
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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...
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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...
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As the Windows Phone 7 have either a dark (black) or light (white) theme which can be applied it will become very important for you to know which theme the user enabled in order to determine your applications color schema, this is assuming you are using styles which are not built into the skinning on...
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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...
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Today MS announced an updated release of the WP7 tools. I can tell you from using intermediate builds this is getting better and better. Check out the build here - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8496c2a-54d9-4b11-9491-a1bfaf32f2e3&displaylang=en Have fun with the new Bits...
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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...
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Because I have just spent the past 20-30 minutes trying to figure out why my Application Bar button was not being disabled when I set the IsEnabled = false on an ApplicationBarIconButton only to find out that this is a bug in the CTP I thought I would share this just in case someone else was having this...
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This is simply a PSA as I spent 10 minutes today scratching my head why my Property Change notification was not being fired when I edited some text boxes in a WP7 application. I knew my binding was setup because the values in my ViewModel we showing up in my View, but when I would make a change...
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When building out phone applications real estate is at a premium. If you need to provide any type of edit content on the screen you either need to make the decision to only allow a few edit boxes to remove the need for scrolling or allow for scrolling. In this post We will take a look at how we...
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One of the great new little features which is part of Windows Phone 7 is the ability to create and add an application bar to your application. This application bar can contain images, menu items or both. And creating them is dead simple. In this post I thought we would walk through how to setup an application...