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Windows Phone Performance – Part 8 of many: Lumia 620 performance

In this post, I’ll take a look at the performance of the Nokia Lumia 620 from a developer’s point of view. This post is part of my Windows Phone Performance series . HUGE thanks to Joost von Schaik for performing the tests in this article. Since I don...

Published Sat, Mar 03 2013 9:43 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, WP Performance

Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications – Part 1

Unit testing phone applications is not common. Partly, because these applications tend to be UI-focused and there is not too much logic to talk about in the first place. Partly, because the lack of tooling support. I am not a big unit tester myself, since...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2012 10:33 AM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, WP7 Nunit

Windows Phone Performance - Part 5 of many: A Developer’s look at the Nokia Lumia 610

The plan for part 5 was to continue my WP Performance series with a discussion of List performance. However – as it usually happens - Life has came and changed the plan. First, Oren Nachman published a great article on The Windows Phone Developer Blog...

Published Thu, May 05 2012 2:31 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, WP Performance

Windows Phone Performance Part 4 of many– The Power of the GPU

This is Part 3 of the translation of the performance chapter of the Windows Phone developer book I co-authored with many of my Hungarian peers. Other parts of this series can be found here . The last time we saw our drunk Vuvrian hero, he was buzzed by...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2012 2:53 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, WP Performance

Windows Phone Performance – Part 3 of Many: Tie Fighters and Drunk Spaceship Captains

This is Part 3 of the translation of the performance chapter of the Windows Phone developer book I co-authored with many of my Hungarian peers. Other parts of this series can be found here . There are a number of ways to create animation on Windows Phone...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2012 12:50 AM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, WP Performance

Windows Phone Performance – Part 2 of many – It’s Full of Stars!

This is Part 2 of the translation of the performance chapter of the Windows Phone developer book I co-authored with many of my Hungarian peers. Other parts of this series can be found here . We finished the previous part discussing the roles of the CPU...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2012 12:06 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, WP Performance

Windows Phone Performance–Part 1 of many

This post series is the translation of the performance chapter of the Windows Phone developer book I co-authored with many of my Hungarian peers. If you read Hungarian, I suggest you get the book – either online or in a paper format. There are also...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2012 11:02 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, WP Performance

WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior

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...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2012 1:00 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Windows Phone 7

SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control

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...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2011 8:16 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Windows Phone 7, SurfCube on Mango, Mango, SurfCube

SurfCube on Mango Part 3–Share on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

You can find others parts of this series here . “Share via Twitter” was one of the new features of SurfCube 2.1. This is how what it looks like: First, you long press on a page or link, to open the context menu: Then select “Share via Twitter”. If you...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2011 3:28 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, SurfCube on Mango, SurfCube

SurfCube on Mango Part 1 – Passing the Smoke Test

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...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2011 1:46 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, SurfCube on Mango, Mango, SurfCube

SurfCube Wins Microsoft Innovation Award, V3.0 Released with YouTube support!

Today, SurfCube has been honored with a Microsoft Innovation Award in Smartphone Application category! SurfCube is a revolutionary web browser for Windows Phone 7, with an innovative and exciting 3D User Interface. It is not just full of features, such...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2011 3:18 PM by vbandi

Filed under: User Experience, Windows Phone 7

Vbandi at MIX Part 1–Interview with Nokia’s Wai Seto

At MIX, I recorded quite a few interviews with all kinds of people – friends, strangers, attendees, exhibitors, Microsoftees, and so on. The “vbandi at MIX” blog post series is where I will publish these interviews. They are recorded with a worse than...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2011 9:44 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, vbandi at MIX

Response.MVVM is now available via NuGet!

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...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 12:34 PM by vbandi

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Expression Blend, Windows Phone 7

Presenting at Mix’11 and ROCK!

If I say the next few weeks are going to be exciting, that is a huge understatement. Like saying the Empire State is kinda big. If you are following me on Twitter , you probably know that me and my friend, Bálint Orosz have been voted to present at Mix...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2011 9:26 PM by vbandi

Filed under: User Experience, Windows Phone 7

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Windows Phone Performance – Part 8 of many: Lumia 620 performance

Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications – Part 1

Windows Phone Performance - Part 5 of many: A Developer’s look at the Nokia Lumia 610

Windows Phone Performance Part 4 of many– The Power of the GPU

Windows Phone Performance – Part 3 of Many: Tie Fighters and Drunk Spaceship Captains

Windows Phone Performance – Part 2 of many – It’s Full of Stars!

Windows Phone Performance–Part 1 of many

WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior

SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control

SurfCube on Mango Part 3–Share on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

SurfCube on Mango Part 1 – Passing the Smoke Test

SurfCube Wins Microsoft Innovation Award, V3.0 Released with YouTube support!

Vbandi at MIX Part 1–Interview with Nokia’s Wai Seto

Response.MVVM is now available via NuGet!

Presenting at Mix’11 and ROCK!