In my first post on WP7 in-app searching / filtering I presented a quick, first pass solution to this task. Justin Angel left some good suggestions in his comments and I wanted to enhance this feature a bit now that I’ve finally had a little bit of time to return to Windows Phone development. This…
Automating Quicken QIF Import
In my last post on receipt automation I rambled on about different things I was trying to automate and otherwise ease managing my finances digitally. One TODO item from that post was easing the process of importing transaction data in QIF format into Quicken. Quicken stopped supporting QIF import some time ago with a move…
Receipt automation with Shoeboxed, Quicken, Evernote and more
I try to be pretty organized with my finances otherwise I cannot tame the beast. This has included entering transactions into financial software (i.e. Money, Quicken), scanning and shredding receipts and bills, online bill pay, e-statements, sites like mint.com, and various other tools and techniques. While most of my transactions are personal and not business…
Read More Web.config automation with T4 and a macro
Recently I blogged about my pain with getting Silverlight, WCF, IIS, Windows Authentication and Oracle to play nicely together. One of the pain points from that was needing one set of config settings for running the app and a different set anytime I needed to update the service reference. Specifically, for updating the service reference,…
Read More WP7 In-App Searching, Filtering
Update: Part II builds on the below. A first pass attempt Yesterday I was searching for some examples of searching and filtering data in Windows Phone 7. I was a bit surprised I did not find anything really; when I asked on the WP7 Forum, the result was the same. So last night I spent…
Read More Another WP7 Navigation Approach with MVVM
There are various ways to navigate between views in a Windows Phone 7 application. The first example you typically see is an event wired into a View’s code-behind that calls NavigationService.Navigate(uri). How do we navigate using an MVVM pattern though? There are various ways to do that both manually and using an existing MVVM framework,…
Read More WP7 Orientation Based Scrolling
The main home view for my WP7 app has 7 main menu items in a ListBox and scrolling is not needed when the phone is in Portrait orientation. However I noticed that although a scrollbar does not appear, the ListBox was still scrollable in Portrait mode anyway. At first I set the ListBox’s VerticalScrollBarVisiblity to…
Read More Basic Windows Phone 7 Diagnostics
In preparing an error handling solution for my Windows Phone 7 application, I wanted to collect some basic diagnostic data including basic memory use, phone, and app details. Also for WP7 Marketplace certification, an app cannot consume more than 90 MB of memory, unless the phone has more than 256 MB of memory. See section…
Read More Windows Phone 7 Error Handling, Reporting
I decided to create a a basic error handling infrastructure with an Error Window for my Windows Phone 7 application with the following in mind: Informing user of a problem Displaying a user-friendly error message in Release mode Displaying a developer-friendly full error message in Debug mode Offering a more robust window than MessageBox API…
Read More Silverlight + WCF + IIS + Windows Auth + Oracle EF = PAIN
A couple days ago I started converting our Silverlight 4 app’s website and IIS-hosted WCF (v4) service to use Windows Authentication. The goal was to secure the service and data, get the user’s credentials down to the data tier and database, and provide some auditing and general security without asking for credentials already available for…
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