Tasks
23 Jan 2012
Integrate into default Windows Phone 7 functionality. In this tutorial we cover starting a phone call, beginning SMS and email messages, searching for a location and opening the web browser.
Candle
22 Jan 2012
An animated candle to light your way in the dark. In this tutorial we cover embedding images in your application, animation using storyboards and programmatic versus declarative storyboards.
Minutes to Midnight
21 Jan 2012
How long till the end of the day? In this tutorial we cover creating your first Windows Phone 7 application, using a dispatch timer and embedding a custom font.
Help my app has been revoked!
21 Nov 2011A couple of days ago I got a really nasty surprise, I went to open To Do Today to add something to remember to do later that day and was shocked to see the message “To Do Today has been revoked by Microsoft, please uninstall this app”.
Storyboards in Caliburn Micro
14 Nov 2011In my previous post I talked about the benefits of using co-routines in Caliburn Micro to ease any interactions with the View from the View Model. In that case it was the use of the Visual State Manager; in this post we’ll cover managing storyboards and animation.