Jeff Brand

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  11 minutes, 12 seconds
  Message Based Navigation for WP7 MVVM Apps

  Apr 26, 2011 at 6:00 AM 2 Jeff Brand

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  Do you have an MVVM-based Windows Phone 7 application and you don't like having to hook into the RootFrame to navigate between pages?  Do you wish you could just "ask" to navigate to a new view from your view model? One possible solution can be found in this screencast.

  Using an message...

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  15 minutes, 3 seconds
  Building Multiscreen Applications - Part 1

  SlickThought Mar 01, 2011 at 11:19 AM 0 Jeff Brand

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  This multi-part screencast series will look at the fundamentals involved in building multiscreen applications using Microsoft Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010. Starting with an overview of the Microsoft ecosystem, Part 1 lays the foundation for future episodes, introducing key concepts that will...

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  14 minutes, 12 seconds
  Implementing an MVVM MessageBus with XAML

  Jan 20, 2011 at 6:52 AM 3 Jeff Brand

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  Using a Messag Bus to communicate between ViewModels is a very common activity when building an application based on MVVM.  In this video, I show how you can build a Message Bus that can be created on a per-page basis and easily connected to the ViewModels on a page using XAML.

  For a deeper...

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  11 minutes, 10 seconds
  Simple Dependency Injection with XAML

  SlickThought Jan 18, 2011 at 1:25 PM 5 Jeff Brand

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  Have you ever wanted the flexibility of dependency injection without having to implement a full-blown IoC solution?  Maybe you just want an easy way to pass concrete services to your ViewModel?  This short video will show you you can use XAML to configure your ViewModels to provide a property-based...

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  13 minutes, 58 seconds
  Three Reasons Developers Should Use Expression Blend

  SlickThought Oct 15, 2010 at 11:35 AM 2 Jeff Brand

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  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 developers,...

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  12 minutes, 7 seconds
  Managing Windows Phone 7 Trial Applications

  SlickThought Aug 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM 0 Jeff Brand

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  Windows Phone 7 provides the LicenseInformation class that includes the IsTrial() method.  IsTrial() allows you to check, at runtime, if the running application has been installed from the Marketplace as a trial application, or if the user has purchased the application.  Developers are able...

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  10 minutes, 18 seconds
  Custom Per-Page Transitions for Windows Phone 7

  SlickThought Jun 08, 2010 at 2:00 AM 3 Jeff Brand

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  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 pages,...

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  5 minutes, 41 seconds
  Windows Phone 7 April CTP and TransitioningContentControl

  SlickThought May 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM 0 Jeff Brand

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  In my original screencast (my blog or on here on Channel 9), I showed you how to use the Silverlight Toolkit’s TransitioningContentControl to add automatic transitions between pages of your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight application.  A few days after recording and posting that screencast, ...

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  14 minutes, 30 seconds
  Simplify Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications

  SlickThought Apr 30, 2010 at 8:37 AM 24 Jeff Brand

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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, Windows...

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  12 minutes, 36 seconds
  Peer to Peer Series Part 7: PeerChannel Basics

  SlickThought Dec 11, 2009 at 6:39 AM 0 Jeff Brand

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  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...

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