My “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Windows Phone 7

I’ve done a TON of Windows Phone 7 demos over the past few months, and I get asked all the time for access to download my samples. I’ve been meaning to post this application since I started all of this, but just never got around to it.  SO – here it is… the now Infamous [...]

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MVVM Light Messaging

Posted on July 5, 2010 by

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Windows Phone 7

Since I started using the MVVM Light toolkit, I’ve gotten lots of questions about the it. In this post, I’m going to show you the basics of using the Messaging infrastructure. In the sample application attached, we have the situation where a Master page with a list of data items is trying to move to [...]

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InputScopes for Windows Phone 7

Posted on August 17, 2010 by

This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Windows Phone 7

I have used Shawn Oster’s excellent InputScopes blog post and accompanying demo in the past when talking about Silverlight and the first revisions of the Windows Phone 7 dev tools, but noticed today when I was prepping for a talk that it no longer seems to work right with the Beta bits. After a little [...]

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Customizing WP7 Push Notification Tiles

Posted on August 16, 2010 by

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Windows Phone 7

Although I had originally hoped to be one of the first, there are LOTs of great articles out now about how to use Push Notifications in Windows Phone 7. Instead of re-hashing information that is already readily available on the internet, this article will instead focus on some of the things that have been left [...]

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WP7 Part 4: Morphing and Mapping

Posted on May 28, 2010 by

This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Windows Phone 7

As stated in previous posts, this series represents my experimentation with the Windows Phone 7 developer tools.  It was suggested that I chronicle those adventures for everyone’s benefit, so here it is. There’s good and bad in that – the good part is that we have the opportunity to all learn together as my dabblings [...]

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WP7 Part 3: Navigation

Posted on May 16, 2010 by

This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Windows Phone 7

NOTE: Since the first article was released, the WP7 tools have been updated with an April Refresh. The original post has been updated to reflect the proper download to get the April CTP-friendly code and we will use that as a starting point for this post. OK – I have a confession to make. Actually, [...]

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WP7 Part 2 – Working with Data

Posted on April 21, 2010 by

This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Windows Phone 7

This is the second in my series of WP7 articles where I work towards building my first full-featured WP7 application. Part 1 was a �getting started� type of post, where I discussed installation of the tools and stuff you need to get started. This time we tackle the building out of our application by addressing [...]

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Developing for Windows Phone 7

Posted on April 9, 2010 by

This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Windows Phone 7

This is my first in a series of posts all about developing applications for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight. After what I saw at the WPC and experienced at MIX10, I knew that I wanted to get involved in this as quickly, and as deeply as possible. I’m going to share with you my learning [...]

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