The CodeStock conference is coming up soon on June 15th in downtown Knoxville. As such I have upgraded the CodeStock 2011 Windows Phone app for this year’s conference and am pleased to announce it has been published to the marketplace. Marketplace Video Source Code Changes Over Last Year’s Version I have not had much time…
Windows Phone Login Navigation
A common desire for a mobile application is showing a welcome / login type screen initially when an account is required and the user first runs the app. My past two Windows Phone apps have not needed this but my current one does. I thought it would be very simple and straightforward; just check some…
Windows Phone: App Config Settings – Thinking Outside the Box
File this post under the OCD, late night, crazy category. I just started a new Windows Phone application and have been working on a client for a service my app depends on. I wanted to test out the service interactions but with unit tests of my WP7 class library, not via building out a user…
Upgrading to Windows Phone Mango Beta 2 – Is that All?
<Rant> The development experience may be pleasant for Windows Phone but the setup and upgrade process could sure use some smoothing out. On iOS I hate having to download and install a new version of XCode for each new SDK release (even minor updates) but at least it is pretty straightforward. I am sure that…
CodeStock 2011 App for Windows Phone 7
The most excellent CodeStock conference is just around the corner on June 3-4th and I’m really looking forward to it. Michael Neel and company have done a great job with this Knoxville-based developer / IT / entrepreneurs conference and it has come a long way in a short time since its inception in 2008. It…
WP7 In-app Searching, Filtering Part II
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…
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…
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