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.)…
UPDATE (4/9/2011) : MIX Outsider has been updated to fix some “no network” issues and refine the message creation. Download MIX Outsider (for sideloading) MIX11 Outsider is the MIX11 app that doesn’t care about your schedule. It cares about something more important: the people you want to talk to, meet, or otherwise hang out with…
App bars in Windows Phone 7 are actually a pretty cool little bit of functionality. They give the user 1-4 instantly accessible options for dealing with the screen the user is on, their buttons auto-animate in, they offer “always on” funtionality that isn’t going to be hidden by the on-screen keyboard, they give designers and…
Normally, I wouldn’t blog something that seems obvious, but it took me hours to figure this out and I always try to write blog posts for stuff that it took me a long time to figure out. Enormous props to Walt Ritscher (Twitter: @waltritscher) who helped me figure this out. This blog post is for…
I’m working on a new project in which I need multiple ListPickers in a ScrollViewer. The ListPicker is available via the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. If you don’t have it, you should get it. Get the source as well, for reasons that will be clear in one more sentence. The only problem is…