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Update: To see how to extend this solution for custom per-page transitions, see my follow-on article.If you have played around with Silverlight on Windows Phone 7, one thing you may have tried to figure out is how to add nice transitions between different pages of your application. By default,…

Continuing our previous explorations of the TransitioningContentControl (here and here – all WinPhone content here), we will now take a look at how we can extend the TCC to allow transitions to be defined on a per-page basis. Simply put, we would like to have a default transition for all…

In Part 7, I introduce the basics of building a WCF PeerChannel application.  Using a simple console application, the following steps are shown: Creating the necessary interfaces Setting up the WCF enviornment Checking online status Sending and receiving messages While basic, it demonstrates…

In Part 5 of the Peer to Peer Series, I show a sample application that uses PNRP to connect a client application to a server application using WCF and PNRP Peer Host Names. The details of the actual WCF Service implementation.  Instead, I will focus on those areas of leveraging PNRP to…

In Part 4 of the Peer to Peer Series, I modify the Resolve program to find Peer Names using the asynchronous methods.  Below is a very simple example of using the ResolveAsync method: PeerNameResolver resolver = new PeerNameResolver();   try { resolver.ResolveCompleted +=…

In Part Two of the Peer to Peer Screencast series by SlickThought Productions, we look at using C# and the PNRP API to register a peer name.  This example uses a simple Command Prompt application to register the Peer Name, but the same techniques can be used to register a Peer Name from a…

This kick-off screencast introduces you to the foundation of Peer-to-Peer applications, PNRP.  Peer Name Resolution Protocol is the the underlying mechanism used by applications to discover peers on a network.  This can either be a local subnet or the Internet at large.  One of the…

In Part 3 of the Peer to Peer Series, I add another Command Prompt application to the demo solution and use the PNRP API to resolve a Peer Name using C#.  As with registering a Peer Name, resolving Peer Names is straightforward: PeerNameResolver resolver = new PeerNameResolver(); try{…

In Part 6 of the Peer to Peer Series, I set the stage for learning how to use WCF's PeerChannel.  After a simple overview of PeerChannel, I show a sample application that uses PeerChannel to play buzzword bingo.  The focus of this installment is to give an understanding of some of…

Lots of developers are building XAML-based applications today.  Be it WPF, Silverlight or Windows Phone 7, I have seen a lot of people struggle with certain tasks in Visual Studio that would be much easier if undertaken in Expression Blend.  Blend seems to be somewhat intimidating to…