Just a quick note: I’m sure MS will be providing controls to this interface in the future so we don’t have to spend too much time building these controls ourselves This post, as with the previous one, was meant more as an Expression Blend Exercise for myself to be explore the features of Silverlight /… Continue reading Techfriday: Looping Panorama for Windows Phone 7 Series
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Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code!
I was reading through the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 Series and found out that there is currently no panoramic application template or control provided as part of the standard application platform. Nothing stops us from creating our own though. To make things easier, I’ve made a behavior library for everyone… Continue reading Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code!
Consuming data from Nimbus Using LinqToXML (Updated) on iPhone + WP7!
I’ve been starting to explore iPhone development lately. At first I was taking my time at learning at Objective C which went fine for a while but one of the guys on the project was asking if I could help build some apps for Project Nimbus, translation: build stuff fast. We talked about MonoTouch.NET which… Continue reading Consuming data from Nimbus Using LinqToXML (Updated) on iPhone + WP7!
TechFriday: iPadding V1 – The Designer Story
With the whole iPad buzz going around last week, I decided to build last friday’s TechFriday app around the theme. Introducing iPadding v1! It’s basically a WPF application that allows you to drag and drop shortcuts onto the screen and save it for when it’s presentation time. My desktop is constantly cluttered and as much… Continue reading TechFriday: iPadding V1 – The Designer Story
Happy Holidays Everyone!
I was listening to some Christmas music today and the holiday spirit got the best of me. I managed to make a customizable e-greeting card using Silverlight 4. Since MS has only released a developer beta and no go-live license, users will have to manually download the Silverlight 4 beta plugin. I modified the html… Continue reading Happy Holidays Everyone!
Tip the Day: watch videos on extended monitor while working on primary
Have you ever tried watching a code walkthrough video, wanting to follow along with visual studio but have a hard time because the video players are too small for you to read the code? and when you do full screen, you’ll have to pause and play while you “unfullscreen” to switch to Visual Studio to… Continue reading Tip the Day: watch videos on extended monitor while working on primary
Making Your Win7 JumpLists Trigger on the Same Application Instance
As promised in my previous post, I’ll be talking about how to create jumplist integrated single instance applications, much like how Outlook, Windows Media Player. At first, i thought it would need to involve a bit of windows messaging but then I found this blog post that details how to create single instance WPF applications.… Continue reading Making Your Win7 JumpLists Trigger on the Same Application Instance
Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager
We’re having our Singapore launch of Windows 7 this November and in honor of that, I’ll be devoting my upcoming (and long overdue) TechFridays to everything Windows 7. For this post, I'll be talking about how you can use the Visual State Manager for WPF to manage the different screen states in your application in… Continue reading Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager
TechFriday: Jumping into Jumplists
Everybody’s excited about Windows 7 and there might be a few of you guys out there wanting to take advantage of some of the new features of the OS in your applications. In this post, I’ll show you how you can quickly add Jumplist support to your existing application (Yes, even WinForms applications) In order… Continue reading TechFriday: Jumping into Jumplists
TechFriday: Building Custom Behaviors
Okay, I missed Tech Friday, so I decided to make it Tech Weekend instead. I attended the June Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX last Thursday and was able to catch up a bit on the new technologies. I have been busy with a few other things at work and I am ashamed to say, I have been lagging… Continue reading TechFriday: Building Custom Behaviors
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