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31 Days of Mango

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:00:41 GMT

A great new series on Windows Phone development, specifically focused on Mango (7.5). Jeff Blankenburg will be writing a new article for 31 straight days.

The "Kinect Effect": Kinect gets a commercial program

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:42:44 GMT

Today Microsoft announced that the Kinect for Windows commercial program will launch early next year.

Day #4: Device Orientation on Windows Phone 7

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:05:22 GMT

A great tutorial on how to manage device orientation in a Windows Phone 7 application.

Day #3: The Back Button Paradigm in Windows Phone 7

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:03:41 GMT

A great discussion about overriding the back button on Windows Phone 7, and how and when you should do it.

Day #2: Page Navigation In Windows Phone

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:47:28 GMT

In Day #2 of the 31 Days of Windows Phone, Jeff Blankenburg gives a deep overview of how to leverage the NavigationService in the WP7 operating system.

Day #1: The Windows Phone Project Template

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:16:47 GMT

Jeff Blankenburg has started another "31 Days" blog series, this time covering Windows Phone development with Silverlight. This post for the first day covers the default project template, and what each piece of it is used for.

Done means Done

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:29:25 GMT

A great post about setting realistic expectations when developing software. In many cases, we're even fooling ourselves sometimes.

Hostility Towards Windows Phone 7 (and a hopeful message...)

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:27:17 GMT

An interesting article discussing the opinions of Windows Phone 7, as well as a conversation about opportunity in the marketplace this fall.

Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever 2

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:30:52 GMT

You may recall giving the "Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever" a try last year, and they created a new one for this year. There's 100 levels, and they've got prizes for the first 100 people to finish it!

New Year's Resolutions for Software Developers

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:03 GMT

A great list of ways to challenge yourself in 2010. I especially like "I will be an agent of change in my organization."

Day #20: Adding Audio To Silverlight Events

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:59:08 GMT

Jeff Blankenburg is back with his 31 Days of Silverlight series. In this article, he shows how to add sounds to events in Silverlight.

Deep Fried Bytes Pod w/ da Gu

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:30:01 GMT

Deep Fried Bytes Pod w/ da Gu '09

LINQ is not LINQ To SQL

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:30:00 GMT

Justin writes about a frequent misconception about LINQ: LINQ is not just LINQ to SQL, but it's a general purpose query language

Mouse Events in Silverlight

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:15:00 GMT

In this 1st post of his 31 Days of Silverlight series, Jeff Blankenburg explains how to work with the different mouse events (MouseEnter, MouseLeave, MouseLeftButtonDown, MouseLeftButtonUp, and MouseMove) in Silverlight.

The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:45:00 GMT

What happens when you get a few web developers who like puzzles together? Check out Jeff Blankenburg's post on the Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever, and rise to the challenge!

Thirty-One Days of Silverlight

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:47:16 GMT

Each day in the month of July, I am going to publish an article on a Silverlight topic. The topics will range from 100-level to 300-level in difficulty, but all of them will be written so that a beginner could start from scratch to create them. I will covering Drag & Drop, Event Handling, and even Collision Detection. This is an extensive list of tutorials, and I hope that it will help you see how useful and powerful these technologies can be. If there are topics you are specifically interested in seeing covered, please leave a comment, and I will do my best to accomodate your request.

How To Create A SetTimeout Function In Silverlight

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:57:28 GMT

This is a great tutorial on how to create a method in C# and Silverlight that acts like the setTimeout function we used all of the time in Javascript.

TUTORIAL: Creating an Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:24:13 GMT

A quick tutorial on creating an accelerator for Internet Explorer 8. It will allow you to highlight text on a web page, and immediately post it to Twitter.

Stir Trek (no, that's not a typo)

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:12 GMT

There's a conference coming up in May that Silverlight developers won't want to miss. Jeff Blankenburg announced Stir Trek, a conference meant to recap Microsoft's Mix 09 conference, as well as get you a private screening of the new Star Trek movie (on the day it opens). If you live near Ohio, this is a "must attend" for web developers and designers.

Browser Wars? Turf Wars? Why?

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:55:58 GMT

Sarah has a brief but passionate discussion about the state of the browser wars, and specifically why anyone cares that Microsoft Windows ships with Internet Explorer.

10 Things I Want From The Next Windows Phone OS

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:21:02 GMT

Got a Windows Mobile device? Want to see some changes in the next OS? What features have you seen in other phones that you want in your Windows Mobile phone? Jeff Blankenburg blogs about some features he would like to see in the next Windows Phone.

Tag! You're It! (A New App For Your Phone)

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:45:41 GMT

Oh the things you can do with your cell phone! Microsoft has taken barcoding to the next level with this colorful technology called Tag. Check out Jeff Blankenburg's post on various ways that Microsoft Tag could be used and be inspired to come up with ways to use it yourself!

Using The DataList Control with XML and SQL

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:39:10 GMT

This post covers how to use the DataList Control in ASP.NET for displaying data from a SQL database and from an XML file. It also demonstrates how simple it is to switch from one to the other.

Creating A Navigation In Silverlight

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:31:02 GMT

A navigation is always a tricky project for every application. It seems to be in a constant state of flux, up until the minute the site goes live. With Silverlight, some of that becomes easier. This post will show you how to create a simple navigation in Silverlight.

Keeping Your Head In The Cloud

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:03:52 GMT

This is a story about a t-shirt company, and how Windows Azure solved their website struggles.. Very well written!