Mobile Development
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Mobile Development
If you have not developed with styles in Silverlight/XAML then it can be challenging and resources can be sparse depending on how deep you get. One thing that you need to understand is what level you can apply styles and how much they can cascade. What I am finding is that this doesn’t go to the level that we are used to in HTML and CSS. While styles can be defined at a page level if you want to share styles throughout your application they should be defined in the App.xaml file. This is of course...
Posted On Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:56 AM | Feedback (0)
Almost every example of a Silverlight ListBox that I have found merely shows how to get data bound to it, not what to do once you get it there. What good is a ListBox that you can’t get a reference back from? The quickest practical way is to hold your original datasource and use the index of the selected item as you key back into your data. It isn’t pretty and you wouldn’t want to take this approach with large amounts of data, but then again a mobile device isn’t meant to display large amounts of...
Posted On Monday, August 15, 2011 9:48 AM | Feedback (0)
Creating a WP7 application with a Panorama page is fairly simple. Teaching it to do tricks is another thing altogether. As with most development controls the key is to learn the event model along with the object model. Knowing what manipulation means, when it happens and what the different levels it occurs at can be a great benefit. This was the case when I wanted to make sure that a particular item was updated before the user got to a particular PanoramaItem. The visibility of a PanoramaItem does...
Posted On Friday, August 12, 2011 6:20 AM | Feedback (0)