Comment Feed for SlickThought http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png SlickThought en Mon, 20 May 2013 20:43:30 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 20:43:30 GMT Rev9 Re: Message Based Navigation for WP7 MVVM Apps I like to wire up XAML as much as I can.  I don't think it is all that much code really... the MessageBus and NavigationHandler (which is the same thing as your IMyAppNavigationService) are very small.  I replace the dependency you have on the nav service with a dependency on the message bus, which provides me additional capabilities.  Too each there own... whatever works for the apps you build.  Just thought it was an interesting alternative.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Message-Based-Navigation-for-WP7-MVVM-Apps#c634395946270000000 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:37:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Message-Based-Navigation-for-WP7-MVVM-Apps#c634395946270000000 SlickThought Re: Implementing an MVVM MessageBus with XAML @Ganesh: Not really.  This was more of an effort to illustrate different ways to incorporate XAML and design-time support rather than deal with event routing /messaging per se.  PRISM is great, but for a lot of apps it is also overkill so this was just a nice, simple way to get some of the goodness provided by things like Event Aggregator without having to dive into PRISM.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Implementing-an-MVVM-MessageBus-with-XAML#c634315694320000000 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:23:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Implementing-an-MVVM-MessageBus-with-XAML#c634315694320000000 SlickThought Re: Simple Dependency Injection with XAML @cellra: I am constructing the dependency in XAML and then binding it to the property I want to inject into.  There is no code behind used for the injection itself.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simple-Dependency-Injection-with-XAML#c634314809290000000 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:48:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simple-Dependency-Injection-with-XAML#c634314809290000000 SlickThought Re: Simple Dependency Injection with XAML @mark: Hi mark.  Sorry for the video problems.  I messed something up somewhere along the way.  I have re-processed the vid and the HiQuality files are much better.  The default vid may still be choppy depending on bandwidth.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simple-Dependency-Injection-with-XAML#c634309834870000000 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:38:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simple-Dependency-Injection-with-XAML#c634309834870000000 SlickThought Re: Simplify Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications Confirmed that the flicker is a known issue and entered as a bug.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634111740550000000 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:00:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634111740550000000 SlickThought Re: Simplify Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications Interesting. I hadnt really noticed it because I was always using the back button to navigate between pages when I was in landscape mode.  Problem when you have a demo app that has TWO WHOLE pages. Wink  I'm not sure what is going on.  It appears to have something to do with sliding content into the various content controls that make up the TCC and the phone having to figure out that the new content should be in landscape rather than portait.  I would lean toward this being a bug in the phone but I have spent about 5 minutes looking at it.  I will try and dig deeper into it tomorrow.

 

 

UPDATE: Ok, this happens on pages with our without the TCC.  I have sent an email to the dev team to see if this is by design, emulator issue, or bug.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634110219870000000 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:46:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634110219870000000 SlickThought Re: Simplify Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications I dont think TCC would do the trick.  I took just a quick look, but an orientation change does not actually change the page content, so the TCC would not be invovled in at all.  It would just behave "as normal".  You would need to wire up the OnOrientationChanged event at the page level and control an animation from there I think.  I want to say Peter Torr has a MIX10 video that shows him doing this.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634104719200000000 Wed, 26 May 2010 11:58:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634104719200000000 SlickThought Re: Simplify Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications You can see a quick fix to getting the TransitioningContentControl working with the April CTP here - http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SlickThought/Windows-Phone-7-April-CTP-and-TransitioningContentControl/

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634099847080000000 Thu, 20 May 2010 20:38:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634099847080000000 SlickThought Re: Simplify Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications I just got the project working under the April CTP.  At this point, I brute forced it by putting the TransitioningContentControl source directly into my project.  I am working on a blog post / screencast to show how to get things working.  I have a couple of other things I want to explore before I finish it up.  Keep an eye here or on my blog - http://slickthought.net for details.  Hopefully in the next day or so...

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634097930420000000 Tue, 18 May 2010 15:24:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634097930420000000 SlickThought Re: Simplify Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications Thanks for the info Jeff! 

 

For the TopLevelNavigationService... (I don't have the code in front of me - on a different laptop), if it is what I am thinking of, you will have to use the Application.Current.RootVisual and cast it to a PageNavigationFrame and grab the Nav service from there.  That's my guess...

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634086894110000000 Wed, 05 May 2010 20:50:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634086894110000000 SlickThought Re: Peer to Peer Series Part 4: Resolving Peer Names Asynchronously When using PNRP out of the box, I am not sure if there is a way to shorten that resolve time.  However, you could try building your own customer resolver.  There is an example of that provided in the WCF SDK sampeles.  That would be a lot faster but would require you to host a resolving service somewhere.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Peer-to-Peer-Series-Part-4-Resolving-Peer-Names-Asynchronously#c634085760130000000 Tue, 04 May 2010 13:20:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Peer-to-Peer-Series-Part-4-Resolving-Peer-Names-Asynchronously#c634085760130000000 SlickThought Re: Simplify Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications Hmmmm... not sure.  I just got the April CTP up and running and have not had a chance to try out the FindAZip on it yet.  Maybe grab the TransitioningContentControl source code from the Toolkit and add that directly to your project.  Might be able to identify the problem that way.  I will try and get a look at it when I get some free time.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634085758430000000 Tue, 04 May 2010 13:17:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634085758430000000 SlickThought Re: Simplify Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications I will be getting source up to my site, slickthought.net, in the coming days.  I had a bit of a hoster issue that took my site offline so we had to pull the download links from the article.  Check the site at the end of the week and I should have a post up pointing to the download.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634084889880000000 Mon, 03 May 2010 13:09:48 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SlickThought/Simplify-Page-Transitions-in-Windows-Phone-7-Silverlight-Applications#c634084889880000000 SlickThought Re: Peer to Peer Series Part 1: Intro to PNRP what is the state of the Global cloud?  netsh p2p pnrp cloud show list?  Also, take a look at netsh interface teredo show state and see what it says.  Client firewall blocking things?  Lots of places to start looking unfortuantely.

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