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31 Days of Mango(www.jeffblankenburg.com)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 6 months, 24 days ago

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. read more...

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Day #4: Device Orientation on Windows Phone 7(bit.ly)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 1 year, 7 months ago

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

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Day #3: The Back Button Paradigm in Windows Phone 7(bit.ly)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 1 year, 7 months ago

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

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Day #2: Page Navigation In Windows Phone(bit.ly)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 1 year, 7 months ago

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. read more...

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Day #1: The Windows Phone Project Template(bit.ly)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 1 year, 7 months ago

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. read more...

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Done means Done(jonkruger.com)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 1 year, 9 months ago

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

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

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 1 year, 10 months ago

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

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Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever 2(toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 1 year, 11 months ago

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! read more...

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New Year's Resolutions for Software Developers(jeffblankenburg.com)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 2 years, 4 months ago

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

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Day #20: Adding Audio To Silverlight Events(bit.ly)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 2 years, 5 months ago

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

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How To Create A SetTimeout Function In Silverlight(jeffblankenburg.com)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 2 years, 11 months ago

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. read more...

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TUTORIAL: Creating an Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8(jeffblankenburg.com)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 2 years, 11 months ago

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. read more...

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

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 3 years, 2 months ago

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. read more...

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Browser Wars? Turf Wars? Why?(codinggeekette.com)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 3 years, 2 months ago

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. read more...

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Using The DataList Control with XML and SQL(jeffblankenburg.com)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 3 years, 3 months ago

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. read more...

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Creating A Navigation In Silverlight(jeffblankenburg.com)

submitted by jblankenburgjblankenburg(1264) 3 years, 4 months ago

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. read more...

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