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A while back I was commissioned to do a video series for Pearson Education. This series will be available on their site as well as on Safari online in the near future. One of the unique things Pearson does for their videos is video headshots of you introducing your lessons, which by the way is way harder...
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Two awesome releases in the last week! Much thanks to the great community surrounding both projects! Here’s what’s new: Durandal 1.2.0 Tons of bug fixes. Lots of improvements to the router. Better support for integrating with Q, KendoUI and Dojo. More docs. Check out the full set of changes. Caliburn...
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Rob Eisenberg
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03-18-2013
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Filed under: WPF, Xaml, WPF/e, Caliburn, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7, NuGet, JavaScript, Durandal
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It’s official, I have been commissioned to author my first Pluralsight course and I am pretty excited. My first course is going to be ‘Html for the XAML Developer’. The objective for this course is to walk a XAML developer (Sliverlight, WPF, WP7, etc) through the process of porting...
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This post is part of a mulit-part posting series on how to use some of the onboard device sensors in Windows 8 applications. Other posts are: Light Sensor Gyrometer Sensor Inclinometer Sensor Accelerometer Sensor (this post) Most tablets and laptops these days have an array of sensors onboard the...
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Windows 8 applications (aka Windows Store applications) have 3 different life cycle states they can go through: Launching Suspending Resuming Handling both Launching and Suspending is pretty much covered out of the box but what if you need to resume from a suspended state? In most normal scenarios...
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This post is part of a mulit-part posting series on how to use some of the onboard device sensors in Windows 8 applications. Other posts are: Light Sensor Gyrometer Sensor Inclinometer Sensor (thispost) Accelerometer Sensor (future post) Most tablets and laptops these days have an array of sensors onboard...
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This post is part of a mulit-part posting series on how to use some of the onboard device sensors in Windows 8 applications. Other posts are: Light Sensor Gyrometer Sensor (this post) Inclinometer Sensor (future post) Accelerometer Sensor (future post) Most tablets and laptops these days have an...
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I’m labeling this the Thomas Ibel/Nigel Sampson release. Why? Because these two hardworking gentlemen have put great effort into bringing you the most mature version of Caliburn.Micro yet. In the two months since our 1.4 release they’ve dealt with almost every outstanding issue on our list. Great...
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Rob Eisenberg
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01-20-2013
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Filed under: WPF, Xaml, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7
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Most tablets and laptops these days have an array of sensors onboard the device that developers can use and take advantage of. One of the sensors which is on most tables and laptops is the Light Sensor. This sensor can be used for many things and it is common that the light sensor is used to illuminate...
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Today I’m happy to announce the official release of Caliburn.Micro v1.4. This release brings a ton of bug fixes across all platforms, nuget fixes…and best of all…full support for WinRT and WP8. That means that Caliburn.Micro now supports WPF, SL4, SL5, WP7, WP8 and WinRT. AWESOME...
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Rob Eisenberg
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11-15-2012
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Filed under: WPF, Xaml, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7, NuGet
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When you build a Windows Phone 7 (soon to be 8) application, one of the screen layouts you can use is the Panorama. In most cases the number of pages in the panorama is hard defined in code but there is the occasion when you will add pages dynamically based on binding. In this post...
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If you fit into any one (or more) of these three categories… You like tabletop RPGs You build Xaml applications You build Html/JS applications 1. RPGWithMe For some time I’ve been cranking away building my company’s first real product. I’m very excited to officially announce...
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Rob Eisenberg
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08-02-2012
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Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, game development, Control Templates, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7
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When building WinRT applications you will want to implement the ability to capture images/video’s from the onboard webcamera in order to use in your application. Fortunately for you this is very easy to accomplish. We will walk through how to do this in this post. Step 1: Enable access to...
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When you are building Metro Applications it will be very common that your application will have image (.png) files stored in local isolated storage and that you will want to show these images to the users inside your application. In this post i am going to walk you though how to access these stored...
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When building WinRT applications there will be the need to create IStorageFiles in the local storage area of your application. In this post I was going to walk through how we can do this step by step. Step 1: Get the StorageForlder object for your application var storageFolder = ApplicationData...