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The built-in resources in Windows Phone 7 help a lot with automatically reflecting the selected theme of the phone. (See my earlier blog post: Being theme aware in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight apps ). However, sometimes you want to be theme aware, but need more than the predefined resources. For...
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On SurfCube, we are using the ListPicker control from the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit. The latest (August 2011) version of this Toolkit has a bug – it doesn’t work in ScrollViewers. It simply does not open. First we thought the problem was with Pivots / Panoramas – then, stripping away the...
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Note: If you don’t know what SurfCube is and would like to follow this post series: it is a popular Windows Phone 7 web browser with a 3D twist. Here is a demo video you should look at to understand what I am talking about. Better yet, download SurfCube, see for yourself how it works – and if this series...
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How time flies… July has already started. This time of the year I am checking my Inbox every 5 minutes, with excitement, hoping to see an email from Microsoft about my MVP status. It’s a strange thing. At the beginning of April I have to summarize all my deeds for the past year. This is not one of my...
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About a year ago, I wrote an article for SilverlightShow, titled “ A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM ”. The article introduced VSMChangerBehavior which allows tying enums in the ViewModel to Visual States in the View. Another Action shown off there is the CallDataContextMethodAction , which calls...
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It is pretty well known that an app can be notified of the phone’s orientation changes via the PhoneApplicationFrame.OrientationChanged event. However, if you are as serious about sharing the work between the designer and the developer as I am, you will not be happy with this – the changing of the layout...
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While trying to reduce the loading time for our SurfCube 3D Browser app , I realized that loading a 100 or so history items to a ViewModel property directly bound to the UI may not be the best idea. It takes up a long time (like 0.5 seconds) to render the items in the list, and the user may never see...
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Encouraging the users of your WP7 app to rate or buy your application, view other apps by you or just send a feedback email can make or break an app. However, the MarketPlace API can be a little confusing, and takes a little time to figure out which method does what. You can’t even try and see for yourself...
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Foreword This article discusses how basic Facebook features (such as logging in, posting to a user’s wall) can be accessed from within your Silverlight application. Since we will be discussing the topic of integrating Facebook with Silverlight, understanding the article requires that you have some basic...
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Long time no see for this blog. And how could it go forward other than a job advertisment? I promise I'll write up some more interesting stuff in the future, but for now the only thing I have in mind is this: NET library, GUI and framework developer (ref no: 77193) Position Description We are seeking...
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Windows Phone 7 users can customize their phones by choosing between a dark and a light background, and tons of accent colors. The Windows Phone 7 UI Design and Interaction Guide tells us, that it is good to be theme-aware. For example, if the user selects a light background with red accent color, the...
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Summary: this blog post details the design decisions and some technical information behind the Windows Phone 7 Mix Zoomery app. Some of you may have heard of Zoomery, which is the Deep Zoom framework of my company ( Response ). Some of you may have even seen our Mix Zoomery demo , which allows browsing...
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I am honored to announce, that I have been re-awarded as a Silverlight MVP for another year! Receiving the congratulatory email always feels a little bit like birthday, and puts a huge grin on my face for days. I can say “always” as this is my third MVP award, and the second in the Silverlight...
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Last week I gave a 3 hour “What’s new in Silverlight 4” talk to the Hungarian Silverlight UG, the Silverlight Klub . I had a LOT of demos, – most of which I prepared, and some I borrowed. The aim of the demos was to give a small code sample to most new features in Silverlight 4, without going deep. In...
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My new article, “ A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM ” is up at Silverlight Show. Here is the intro: “If you work with Silverlight or WPF, you have probably met the phrase “MVVM”. Almost everyone who is anyone in the WPF / Silverlight scene has their own MVVM framework, and their own way of explaining...