The Windows Phone 7 SDK comes with a lot of great templates, styles and resources to get you up and running quickly. But they can be a little repetitive, notice that every page set’s a lot of it’s own properties such as Font that will the same over all your pages. When you have a dozen or more pages (which isn’t that hard to do) you’re going to be repeating a lot of xaml.
I’m proud to announce the in the last few weeks I’ve released version 1.3 of To Do Today for Windows Phone 7.
The Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 made it really useful for apps to deal with simple gestures such as tap, pinch and swipe. Wiring these gestures to event handlers is incredibly simple with the code below.
The capability model in Windows Phone 7 is something I think every developer needs to understand for reasons that I hope become clear. They help define the security sandbox your application runs in on the phone and provide useful information to possible purchasers of your application on the marketplace.
I’ve had a few questions about using the LoopingSelector described in “Using LoopingSelector from the Silverlight Toolkit”, and I’d like to go over them.