Friday, March 18, 2011

Tutorial: Building a connected phone app with AgFx

Tutorial: Building a connected phone app with AgFx

Tutorial: Building a connected phone app with AgFx

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:39 PM PDT

Earlier this week I wrote a post detailing the application framework that I've been working on, which I'm calling AgFx. I wanted that post to be a bit of an introductory overview,. Now I'm going to dig into detail a bit more, as well as show a bit about how you can use the free Windows Phone 7 Developer tools to quickly create a great application. AgFx does a lot, and one of the apps I used to generate requirements and testing, is Jeff Wilcox's gorgeous new foursquare™ client: 4th & Mayor , which is built on AgFx. Jeff and I, along with some others, have written several apps on top of AgFx over the last few months, and have really sharpened it to be exactly what you need when building a connected phone application...(read more)

Enabling IIS Express support in VS 2010 Sp1

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:40 PM PDT

With the Sp1 release of Visual Studio 2010 now available for download , you now have the option to use IIS Express as the development server for your web projects instead of the built-in Visual Studio Development server (aka. Cassini). Here are some previous blog posts explaining the IIS Express integration features in VS 2010 Sp1 Beta, which are also available with this new release of Sp1: VS 2010 SP1 (Beta) and IIS Express Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta IIS Express Integration VS 2010 SP1 and IIS Express should both be installed to enable IIS Express support To enable using IIS Express as the development server for your web projects, you need to have both the Sp1 release of VS 2010 as well as the IIS Express web server installed. See the 'Installing...(read more)

Silverlight TV 66: Phoney - New Windows Phone 7 Open Source Project

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:34 AM PDT

If you have trouble using bit.ly or logging on Windows Phone 7, check out this week's episode of Silverlight TV where John Papa talks with Shawn Wildermuth about Phoney, a new Open Source Project that will be showcased at MIX11 on April 11 th . ...( read more )...(read more)

Blend Bits 27–“Make it Flip”

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:30 AM PDT

This one comes from showing Blend to a few people yesterday and trying to think of various scenarios for making use of different visual states for a UI or for a control and one that came up was "can you make one of those UIs where we have a panel...( read more )...(read more)

Blend Bits 26–Use Libraries for Assemblies

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 01:46 AM PDT

One of the things that's a bit annoying with Expression Blend is that when you go to reference an assembly you get the standard Windows file open dialog. That is; raises the dialog; and that's not what you see in Visual Studio and makes hunting down the...( read more )...(read more)

Phone Tools reaches Beta!

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:26 PM PDT

URL : http://shawn.me/wp7phoney I am proud to announce the Beta version of the Phoney Tools. This version (v0.5) includes a few new features that are detailed below. The official release is still slated for MIX11! Changes in this version include: SelectSwitch...( read more )...(read more)

On Silverlight TV to Talk About Phoney Tools

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:07 PM PDT

URL : http://shawnw.me/dEUJJk I had the pleasure to join John Papa on Silverlight TV to talk about my Phoney Toolkit. If you get a chance take a look and see if you like what i've built. I got a chance to plug the upcoming Open Source Fest at MIX 11 as...( read more )...(read more)
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