Saturday, March 27, 2010

Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2010 -- #822

Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2010 -- #822

Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2010 -- #822

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 12:10 PM PDT

In this Issue: MSDN , Bill Reiss , Charlie Kindel ( -2- ), SilverLaw , Scott Marlowe , Kenny Young , Andrea Boschin , Mike Taulty , Damon Payne , and Jeff Handley ( -2- ). Shoutouts: Scott Morrison has his material up for his talk at MIX 10: Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

My talk on MIX10 (french)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 10:58 AM PDT

This week I was invited at the Visual Studio Talk Show , a french .NET podcast, to talk about all the announcements (mainly Silverlight 4 RC, Windows Phone 7, IE9, …) made at MIX this year, so in case you need a recap... Les nouveautés de la conférence...( read more )...(read more)

Simulating accelerometer data in the Windows Phone 7 emulator

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 10:49 AM PDT

Testing a game in the Windows Phone emulator that uses the accelerometer can be tricky since that data can be hard to simulate. Peter Blois in his labyrinth sample uses mouse movement to simulate it, but this only allows for 2 directions of movement....( read more )...(read more)

iPhone SDK vs. Windows Phone 7 Series SDK Challenge, Part 2: MoveMe

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 06:42 PM PDT

In this series, I will be taking sample applications from the iPhone SDK and implementing them on Windows Phone 7 Series. My goal is to do as much of an "apples-to-apples" comparison as I can. This series will be written to not only compare and contrast how easy or difficult it is to complete tasks on either platform, how many lines of code, etc., but I'd also like it to be a way for iPhone developers to either get started on Windows Phone 7 Series development, or for developers in general to learn the platform. Here's my methodology: Run the iPhone SDK app in the iPhone Simulator to get a feel for what it does and how it works, without looking at the implementation Implement the equivalent functionality on Windows Phone 7 Series using Silverlight...(read more)

Book Excerpt: The Silverlight Layout System

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 07:51 PM PDT

I'm on the road to finishing up Silverlight in Action, Revised edition . This is really turning out to be the definitive Silverlight book. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it. One interesting thing that has happened is...( read more )...(read more)

Book Excerpt: The Silverlight Layout System

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 07:51 PM PDT

I'm on the road to finishing up Silverlight in Action, Revised edition . This is really turning out to be the definitive Silverlight book. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it. One interesting thing that has happened is...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for March 26, 2010 -- #821

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 04:58 PM PDT

In this Issue: Max Paulousky , Christian Schormann , John Papa , Phani Raj , David Anson ( -2- , -3- ), Brad Abrams ( -2- ), and Jeff Wilcox ( -2- , -3- ). Shoutouts: Jeff Wilcox posted his material from mix and some preview TestFramework bits: Unit Testing...( read more )...(read more)

“Peppermint” MIX demo sources

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 02:30 PM PDT

At MIX, during my talk on unit testing Silverlight and Windows Phone applications, I demoed a simple application called 'Peppermint'. Here's the source; I'll be writing up a full tutorial on Windows Phone later, so these are just 'bleeding-edge bits' Read More......(read more)

When you have two good options, go with the easier one [Tip: Set DependencyProperty default values in a class's default style if it's more convenient]

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 09:53 AM PDT

Tip Set DependencyProperty default values in a class's default style if it's more convenient Explanation In the previous tip , I explained why it's usually wrong to assign a value to a Silverlight/WPF DependencyProperty in the constructor for a class...( read more )...(read more)
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