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Page-based browsing in a list on Windows Phone

There are several ways content can be browsed inside a list on Windows Phone. Most of the current applications (like Facebook) are using the "Load...

0 replies - 4238 views - 04/19/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

RavenDB: Safe by default design – it works!

One of the things that I really tried to do with RavenDB is to make sure that it is safe by default, which means that it will automatically detect common...

0 replies - 3699 views - 04/17/11 by Ayende Rahien in News

MIX11 Session feedback: Analyzing and Improving Windows Phone Application Performance

Today I got to attend another set of sessions, my focus mostly being on Windows Phone. Jeff Wilcox, the developer of 4th and Mayor (a foursquare client for...

0 replies - 4384 views - 04/14/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: Limiting session scope

In the previous posts, we have looked at how we are going to setup an application using NHibernate. We set it up using: public MvcApplication() { ...

0 replies - 2407 views - 04/09/11 by Ayende Rahien in News

Microsoft DreamSpark - now with a free Microsoft Certification Exam

As DreamSpark is growing, it starts to offer more opportunities for the verified students. Recently, Microsoft added the possibility to take a free Microsoft...

2 replies - 9516 views - 03/30/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

MVVM Light - what's the Messenger?

MVVM Light offers a class specific to every ViewModel instance that is used in the context of an application - Messenger. One might ask - what exactly is it...

3 replies - 18630 views - 03/30/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

MSB3247: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly.

Had been getting this recently in our builds, and have finally tracked it down to conflicting versions of the Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll in...

0 replies - 4361 views - 03/23/11 by Merrick Chaffer in News

A Guide to Sandcastle - Part 1 - Introduction

Generating documentation doesn't seem to be that of an important task for libraries developers use day by day. However, chances are that the comments...

3 replies - 7591 views - 03/22/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Why Interoperability Must Succeed for the Cloud to Survive

During the past two years, not a week has gone by without several press releases, blogs, editorials or articles about cloud interoperability crossing my...

0 replies - 8075 views - 02/26/11 by Bill Heinzman in Articles

Daily Dose: HTML5 Goes Mobile: The-M-Project Open Source Framework

Tired of constantly adapting your code to the latest smartphone OS? The-M-Project might be the solution you've been waiting for. A new open source HTML5...

0 replies - 25660 views - 02/23/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

January 2011 Update for Windows Phone 7 dev tools - New Emulator & Utilities

The long awaited update for the official developer tools is out. And although the actual update for the phone itself is not out, you can already see what the...

0 replies - 10347 views - 02/04/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Making of - The first version of the presentation layer for Windows Phone 7

There are tons of question floating around the Internet of users asking how to take screenshots from a Windows Phone 7 application or how to capture the system...

0 replies - 6051 views - 01/25/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

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0 replies - 1936 views - 01/18/11 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

So you want to get that TFS-powered project from CodePlex...

CodePlex currently hosts 19845 projects. If you've used CodePlex before, then you probably know that you can get the pre-built library/executable/package if...

0 replies - 8803 views - 01/13/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Developing SevenDrops - A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [2/6]

So now that there is a basic UI layout (described here) I can start working on the application functionality and the first thing I am going to start with is...

0 replies - 8377 views - 01/03/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles