Seeing as how I’ve already spent far too much time on this little project, barring major problems with this control (please point them out!) this will probably be my last version of the control. My ADD is kicking in and I need to work on something else. If you’re interested in having the compact version…
(I’m getting to the point in a roundabout way… you can skip directly to the point below if you want.) When I started working on my WPF-Wii tutorials, my first Wii project was the initial version of the WPF-Wii Visualizer. However, I quickly got tired of writing the code for handling events and transferring the…
RT @thedavedev: Awesome RT @Telerik: 500+ Metro Style WP7 Icons shared by @bsimser http://tlrk.it/egugJi #wp7dev #wp7 # RT @maphet: I plan on voting for whomever runs in the next municipal election on the platform of "more snow plows." #thenewsouth # Went sledding yesterday. My body says "ouch", but my brain says "You're over 30, you…
OK… it’s been almost 2 months since I tried to start this series and now I’m going to finish it. A brief warning: this is done with pre-Mango bits so it won’t have all the latest, greatest most exciting things like the back-tile functionality or deep linking. (Here’s a good blog post on all that.)…
Just for fun, I took my color picker and plugged into Robby Ingebretsen’s Silverlight Particle Generator. I had to make some tweaks to the XAML to alter the look to just what I wanted it to be, but you can check out the result here. By the way, if you’d like a rock solid version…
I’ve recently been learning to write HTML 5 / Javascript apps for Windows 8 and wanted to take some of that knowledge and transfer it over to Windows Phone 8. As I did so, I learned there are a lot of little “tweaks” that I needed to do to get things working so I thought…
This is meant to be the one-stop-shop blog post for creating a very simple web service in PHP that pulls from a MySQL database and displaying the data in Silverlight. Emphasis on the “simple”. This tutorial is geared toward someone who has never done databases or web services. Here is an example of the finished…
I finally cleaned out my Google Reader list and picked out the stuff I like. Carsonified » 5 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers Carsonified » Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers – Part 2 Source code for “WPF Control Development Unleashed” – From Pavan Podila, control development in WPF is pretty powerful… might be…
Note: This is part of a series on writing Alexa Skills in C#, but the Skill setup information is universal & language agnostic (as long as you’re using Amazon Lambda). So we’ve set up our AWS account for Visual Studio, and written up our Alexa skill in C#. Time to deploy and start testing! Right-click…