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Techfriday: Looping Panorama for Windows Phone 7 Series

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Playing with the Silverlight Toolkit

Yes, it’s as easy as it looks. I’m actually just creating this post so that I can test the app I just built. The Silverlight Toolkit has actually been in release since December but I haven’t had the time to play around with it yet. In the toolkit are some really cool components [...]

Silverlight 2 & Dynamics CRM

I was doing some research on Silverlight 2 & Dynamics CRM integration and found this post by Humberto Lezama Guadarrama where he posts a sample project that demonstrates how to consume Dynamics CRM Services directly from Silverlight 2. I was getting an initialize error when I tried to run the code though. This [...]

PDC SOTD: Building a Graphics-Intensive Application in Silverlight

There’s so much content on http://www.microsoftpdc.com and I’m trying to watch at least once a day. So my PDC Session of the Day is this Building a Graphics-Intensive Application in Silverlight by Seema Ramchandani

She highlights quite a number of things to bear in mind when you’re doing lots of animations, image & video [...]

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Supports Solutions!

With the goal of stressing out my new adopted baby, Brownie (yes I know it makes her sound like a dog but hey, what can I do, it’s brown and I wasn’t feeling very creative when I got her), I installed Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, because I figured that one [...]

Preparing to Move to RTW

For those of you who have been working on the Silverlight RC0 bits getting yourself ready for the release, check out this blog post from Laurence Moroney where he talks about how to get your RC0 and Beta 2 bits deployed side by side so you don’t have to worry about when the [...]

Live Media GPS = Awesome!

I was browsing http://www.liveside.net  last night and saw this article on a really killer Windows Mobile application called Live Media GPS. If some of you have heard of Qik, it’s the same concept. It has a software component that runs on your GPS enabled Windows Mobile phone and allows you to stream videos [...]

SingTel Heart Race Test!

I had the great opportunity to help Crayon Digital get enabled on Silverlight for one of the projects they had to deliver for the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix and I have to say, they’ve come up with some pretty sleek stuff and I’m sure you GUYS will agree Check out the [...]