June 2010 Entries

Silverlight 4 Unleashed table of content

(book cover might change before publication) As I am reaching the end of the writing phase of Silverlight 4 Unleashed (to be published at Sams), I thought I would give a little more information about this book. The book’s idea Because I didn’t want to merely write an update to the existing Silverlight 2 Unleashed, I proposed a different approach to my editor: Using Silverlight 2 Unleashed (which was bringing people up to speed with Silverlight 2 pretty much from scratch) as the basis for the new ......
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Windows Phone 7 multitouch behavior: beta testers needed (#wp7dev)!

I finished implementing version 0.1/beta1 of a multitouch behavior for Windows Phone 7 and need beta testers. What is the Windows Phone 7 multitouch behavior? Multitouch in Windows Phone 7 is not super hard, but there are a few things that need to be taken in account (such as the orientation of the device). In addition, it is very easy to get unwanted effects on a small screen (for example that the element becomes too big/too small). Also, in some cases the proportionality should be kept for a scaled ......
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Two small issues with Windows Phone 7 ApplicationBar buttons (and workaround)

When you work with the ApplicationBar in Windows Phone 7, you notice very fast that it is not quite a component like the others. For example, the ApplicationBarIconButton element is not a dependency object, which causes issues because it is not possible to add attached properties to it. Here are two other issues I stumbled upon, and what workaround I used to make it work anyway. Code to demonstrate the issues and the workaround can be downloaded here! Finding a button by name returns null Since the ......
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