Windows Phone 8

Today's Mobile Monday project is one that's maybe not all that sexy and exciting, not something you're going to jump up and down about, it isn't a world changer, but it IS something needed in very Windows Phone 8 app. Something that every phone dev has to build, to create from scratch, a wheel…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:20] Android Developers Welcome to Azure Mobile Services (Joel Citizen) [01:57] Azure Mobile Services managed client – now also from NuGet (Carlos Figueira) [02:39] Do you understand how your app is being…

Kevin Remde welcomes back  Sr. Technical Product Manager Martin Booth for Part 2 of their System Center 2012 SP1 for Windows 8 series and in today’s episode they discuss device support improvements made in Configuration Manager as well as improvements to support user mobility. [1:58] What has…

Ben creates live demos to show examples of how to maximize code reuse. This final segment will include an overview of reuse techniques such as portable library, shared source code, inheritance, conditional compilation, partial classes and methods. [01:54] - Portable Library [10:17] - Shared source…

This module introduces the user to MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), the architecture and the Pros and cons. It will provide and overview for how to share code using MVVM, .NET portable class library as well as going over best practices and providing a wealth of resource information. [03:29] -…

This session will go over Data binding basics and look further into Dependency object and  property. It will review properties for binding specifically INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyCollectionChanged, and include business logic to respond to user actions in the view. [01:53] - Data binding…

Windows 8 and Windows are not the same platform. This module will cover how they are different by going over the UI and XAML, Platform specific features and reviewing the data model and supporting code. [12:05] - Demo - reminders [20:00] - App settings [31:03] - Media capture [39:31] - App bar Full…

Windows 8 and Windows are not the same platform. This module will cover how they are different by going over the UI and XAML, Platform specific features and reviewing the data model and supporting code. [06:15] - Windows and Windows Phone convergence [13:25] - UI and XAML [23:13] - Data model and…

Today's Modern/Mobile Monday project fun project that shows the same (well, same'ish) HTML5 game on three different platforms... oh, and the source is available for all three too. Now with more Cow Bell! For those of you who haven’t been following the antics of the Yeti, we’ve been using this demo…

Today's Hardware Friday project comes to us via Matt Cavanagh and Controlling a Netduino over Bluetooth with WP8The last time I touched my Netduino was about 5 months ago (due to work-load), around the time of my wedding to make the wedding tank. So this weekend I decided to dust it off and…