Snowfall
28 Jan 2012
A simple animated snowfall, swipe for wind. To build this we cover creating and using user controls, reading manipulation events and setting up the clip for a panel.
Quick Mail
27 Jan 2012
Repeatedly sending the same emails? this app will help. We cover in this tutorial saving data to IsolatedStorage, using the ApplicationBar, navigating between pages and file IO using Linq to Xml.
Reaction Time
26 Jan 2012
Test your reaction time, are you a sloth or a cheetah? We cover using the VisualStateManager, creating state transitions, using transforms and timing events using StopWatch.
Count Me In
25 Jan 2012
Never lose track of whatever you’re counting again. In this tutorial we introduce the Model, View, ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and cover binding values from the view model, wiring commands to the view using behaviours and changing the trigger of an action.
My IP Address
24 Jan 2012
Detect the IP Address of your phone through an external service. In this tutorial we cover creating an MVC action to return your IP address, downloading a response from a web application and deserializing a JSON object.