Binding Html to the Web Browser Control

Currently the fastest way to display a string of html on the Windows Phone 7 is to use the Web Browser control, simply call the NavigateToString method passing the html you want to display.

Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Maps, GPS and Accelerometer

I’ve just uploaded the next three tutorials in the Windows Phone 7 Tutorials series. I ended up doing a batch of three this time due the simplistic nature of any tutorials involving features the emulator doesn’t support well such as GPS and the Accelerometer.

Well this is embarrassing

This is an embarrassing admission, but a few days ago this site was compromised. It appears the FTP account was compromised (how I’m still looking into) and was malicious javascript was appended to all .js files.

Relative Date Time Converter

Value converters are really what help make good applications become great, they plug into the binding infrastructure and help convert values appropriate to the model into values appropriate for the view. Being able to convert say a temperature from a simple integer into something like a SolidColourBrush gives a very easy representation of heat.

Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Isolated Storage and User Controls

The next two tutorials in the Windows Phone 7 Sample Applications have just been uploaded. They’ve taken a little longer to get out as I’ve started work on my first actual application for the Windows Phone 7, a client for the Stack Overflow family of websites. I’m also developing the example applications out of series because I’m waiting for the offical maps controls before developing applications using that.