I’m currently looking to sell a rental house and buy another rental house, so I went looking for a data-centric way to find out 1) how much houses in a given area are selling for 2) how much rent I can expect to get for a given house. While I’m still working on part 1,…
I recently (translation: not very recently) put up an post on circle packing in Processing and completely forgot to follow up with a port of that algorithm porting that to C#. Since then, I’ve refined my implementation of it and put up all the code. I’ve tried to abstract the actual algorithmic piece somewhat into the “shared”…
As of July, 2104, this works for Windows 8 (and greater) and Windows Phone 8 (and greater). All the icons are listed below in images grabbed from Jonathan Antoine’s WinJS centeric post. Just pick out the icon you want based on the sheet below and replace “/u” with “&#x”. Your XAML markup should look something…
I’m going to do this backwards. I’ll start assuming you already have your vector icon in XAML. Then, how to import your vector icon from Illustrator to XAML. The basics: Your button should look like this: <AppBarButton x:Name=”MyButton” Label=”do stuff” Style=”{StaticResource HeadphoneVectorIcons}”/> And the style should look like this: <Style x:Key=”HeadphoneVectorIcons” TargetType=”ButtonBase”>…
This is for getting a GridView to use the same drag-down = select, tap = action interaction model that we see on the Windows 8 start screen. In your GridView, create a copy of the default ItmeContainerStyle. You can do this by right clicking on the GridView in the designer space (or in the document tree)…
I love the “checked” style in Windows 8. Clean, slick, I just like the style. So I implemented it in Windows Phone as a style. The color in the style matches the phone theme, so it’s pretty flexible . To get this style in your app, follow these steps. 1) Download the resource file that…
This is a simple, straight-forward walk-through for doing StringFormat binding in Blend. It is meant to go along with my much more comprehensive post on StringFormat binding for Windows Phone. First, in the Object and Timeline select the TextBlock (or CheckBox or Button or whatever) you want to bind to: Then in the Properties tab…
Windows Phone can use Azure’s Microsoft Translation to bring simple translation access to your app
Full code tutorial on taking, formatting & uploading images to Facebook in Windows Phone 7.x
When designing a “You are here” icon for the map in ShopSavvy (download now on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7. It’s free and super awesome), I decided to try something a little different. Because ShopSavvy is a theme-compliant application, I thought it might be fun to have the “you are here” icon be representation…