Entries Categorized as 'Microsoft'

Nomadic is Hiring – Experienced .NET Developer

Date May 26, 2010

As many of you know I recently joined Nomadic, a a full service branding and interactive digital agency in North Scottsdale.  If you haven’t heard of Nomadic, check out our site http://www.nomadicagency.com.  We get to work with some amazing brands and develop some really exciting sites as well as online promotions. To keep up with [...]

Silverlight Connections – November 1-4, 2010

Date May 21, 2010

I am very excited to announce that this year I will be presenting three unique sessions at Silverlight Connections in Las Vegas, Nevada  Nov 1-4, 2010.  I have never got the pleasure of attending this conference and look forward to being a part of three days of in-depth sessions on Silverlight and WP7. DESIGN LDS203: [...]

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools April 2010 Refresh

Date April 29, 2010

Today Microsoft released the latest version of the Windows Phone 7 Developer tools.   This version is free to the community and will will work correctly with Visual Studio 2010 final release. Click here to download the tools.

Silverlight 4 How to Command Control

Date February 6, 2010

Checkout my latest article on the use of commanding in Silverlight 4. In this article I demonstrate how through the use of commanding and intelligent binding we can virtually eliminate all code behind and implement to a strong MVVM architectural pattern.

Silverlight 4 Webcam Article

Date December 12, 2009

Checkout my latest article on the use of  the Webcam in Silverlight 4. The article demonstrates how to attach to a device apply a PixelShader then store a captured JPEG in Isolated Storage .

Navigation Transitions with WriteableBitmap

Date August 14, 2009

If you have not had a chance to play with Navigation Frames in Silverlight they are very cool, they give developers the ability to navigate between "Page" within a single Silverlight Solution.  The first time I used them I could believe how easy it was to implement.  You simply add a few pages to your [...]

Control Visibility with triggers

Date August 10, 2009

I absolutely love writing triggers for Silverlight 3.  As UX developers we often faced with the challenge of finding ways to fit a ton of information on a single user input screen.  On occasion, some of that information may only be relevant to display if users have made certain choices on the interface: checking a [...]

Silverlight 3 Flip TargetedTriggerAction

Date August 6, 2009

Last week I created a Trigger Action which flipped a panel. It was intended to be invoked from clicking on the panel directly. Earlier today I was asked if you could invoke this trigger from multiple places. The answer is no, but it is very easily to rewrite this trigger to achieve this behavior. In [...]

Silverlight 3 Flip TriggerAction

Date July 30, 2009

In this blog post I am going to create a TriggerAction which makes it incredibly simple to take two UIElements and compose them into a panel which can be flipped. I have demonstrated the technique many times, but here it is all packaged up in a nice reusable class. The following is the code I [...]

Silverlight 3 Drag Behavior

Date July 30, 2009

By now most Silverlight developers should have stumbled on a great new feature of Silverlight 3 and Expression Blends, custom Triggers and Behaviors. I seriously don’t know how I lived without them! In this blog post I am going to demonstrate a simple, yet useful, example of a behavior which allows a UIElement to become [...]