windows__phone

In the first part I covered how to get the initial project setup and share the ViewModels and ViewModelLocator between a Windows Phone 8 project and a Windows Store Application.  In this post, I'll add a DataService and a Model class that will be used to get the most recent posts from the Windows Phone Blog and display the results. Adding DataService and Async to Portable Class Library The purpose of the DataService in the context of this project is to retrieve the RSS feed from the Windows Phone Blog (http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/rss.aspx) using the async methods available in the 4.5 Framework, return a collection of our Headline class object for...

Portable Class Libraries  Portable Class Libraries were added as a project type in the interest of creating an assembly that you could use across the .NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, or Xbox 360 platforms without modifications.  Well, not really that easy.  There is some work to do and as you get into the development of PCLs you'll find out that there is really a sliver of what you'd hope is supported. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/gg597391(v=vs.110).aspx) MVVM Light Where I have found it for me is in Windows Store and Windows Phone (7.5 and 8) with MVVM Light. I have been using this MVVM framework exclusively for a...

Developer Workshops Joe Healy (@devfish) and I have been hosting workshops at the Microsoft Store in Orlando at the Florida Mall over the past few Thursdays. The current series has been focusing on Windows Store Apps, including game application development.  Joe presented this past week on MonoGame for Windows 8 and another Florida Developer, Bill Reiss (@billreiss) is doing a blog series on that same topic here, and the turn out was great! Here are the next few topics on deck. XAML and C# for Windows 8 Store App https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032532761 Presented by: Shayne Boyer (@spboyer) Using Game Salad for No-Code Game Development on Windows 8 https://msevents.microsoft.com/...

Find Amber Available for Windows Phone Find Amber has finally been approved and is now available in the Windows Phone Store! This project is close to me, and not in a "I have lost a child" way thank God. But I do have children and if something were to happen to any of them I can't imagine what it would be like. There are ways to get this information but generally it is slow to deliver. Television, Radio, etc. but these delivery mechanisms are allow but allow for detail. In contrast, there is a text message service and/or the road signs that are available which solves the speed of delivery but the content is lacking. My solution was to...

CodeProject As usual throughout the day I have MetroTwit open and toast are constantly popping up here and there and I glance over to see what’s what.  Then I see. from @WindowsAzure this: And all work stopped for me to check this out.  Other than Windows Phone and Windows 8; I really love the new ASP.NET WebAPI and REST Services capabilities it has made so easy (watch for my next post on that), and seeing this I was thinking – awesome but only for Windows 8???  So…I immediately responded and got a response: Spending the last day or so checking into the walk through for Windows 8, check them out here. I went through the...