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Here’s a progress bar for showing loading operations that lets the animation smoothly finish before disappearing. It’s a lot more like that in the Windows Phone itself, and easy to use: just data bind to the IsLoading property (a new property; the standard IsIndeterminate still will immediately start or stop the animation, so don’t try ... 15 Nov 2010
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I’ve heard a number of conversations with developers about wanting to smoothly fade in background image changes within the Panorama control that ships in the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. I spent the better part of this rainy Seattle Sunday looking into this. I actually had a conversation with the famed Kelly Sommers (@kellabyte) a ... 14 Nov 2010
As a developer on the Silverlight team, I get the joy of seeing the many code review and checkin e-mails that our dev team is doing. It’s exciting, and sometimes I do wish I could share that sort of thing with the world. We’ve been hosting Silverlight FireStarter events for some time, but in light ... 14 Nov 2010
Next week in Malmö, Sweden, there will be several great sessions on Windows Phone and Silverlight development at the Øredev Conference. I look forward to having a chance to present on some great topics and have some fun conversations as well. There’s a good presence of Microsoft presenters at the event, and I wanted to ... 1 Nov 2010
Updated 10/4 post-talk: Slides are available for 4.5MB either as PPTX or PDF. There is a lot more information in the slide deck, I wish I had time to review it all properly at a more leisurely pace! Thank you for everyone who attended. Original post before the talk This week is the JAOO Conference ... 3 Oct 2010
Links to a few videos, podcasts and documents by Silverlight mobile team members. 22 Sep 2010
There is now a transition guide online written by Stephane Crozatier for those who were using the unofficial phone.codeplex.com panorama and pivot controls. 22 Sep 2010
Today the Windows Phone tools are out, the new Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is live, and yes you can finally use the Panorama and Pivot controls! 16 Sep 2010
Since the generic .NET list (List<T> documentation) is a pretty common data structure found in phone apps, I figured it was worth a few minutes to direct everyone’s attention to how the list and its capacity works on the phone. Unlike desktop computers, where we’re often dealing with gigabytes of potential memory on a modern ... 17 Aug 2010
Expanded phone progress bar performance guidance: use an improved template and always toggle IsIndeterminate when not needed. 17 Aug 2010
Here's a super quick tutorial on how to use Blend to find the default control styles and templates. 11 Aug 2010
Here's a preview of what to expect with the Panorama and Pivot controls that will be built into the Windows Phone Developer Tools. 10 Aug 2010
Here's a content control that has an implementation of the "tilt" interactive effect on the Windows Phone. 7 Aug 2010
Our performance whitepaper on Silverlight for Windows Phone applications is out. Please take a look. 7 Aug 2010
The ProgressBar template for Windows Phone can be improved upon for better performance in indeterminate mode. 2 Aug 2010
Information about the frame rate counters and graphics stats for analyzing Silverlight for Windows Phone applications. 26 Jul 2010
Here's the same unit test framework from the April 2010 Silverlight Toolkit, built for Windows Phone and SL3 developers only. 27 May 2010
Today I am sharing my ChildWindow style that resembles the Zune software user interface and has a nice transition. Enjoy! 21 May 2010
Just letting folks know... I'm working in a much more official capacity on the Silverlight and Windows Phone developer story. 21 May 2010
A customized Silverlight 4 ContextMenu control that resembles the crisp, simple look of the Zune software's context menu. 15 May 2010
Jeff Wilcox will be presenting a 200-level deep dive talk on Silverlight unit testing at the TechEd North America 2010 conference next month in New Orleans. 11 May 2010
The latest release of the Silverlight Toolkit contains the new Silverlight Unit Test Framework, with a new modern user interface, out-of-browser support, and performance improvements. 3 May 2010
Jeff Wilcox introduces a base class for dealing with INotifyPropertyChanged classes that is safe to use from background threads in Silverlight and Windows Phone. 2 Apr 2010
Here’s a few simple tips and recommendations when developing custom Silverlight controls, as it relates to template parts. What’s with all the control development tips? We’re looking at the best way to share a lot of the ‘black magic’ of control development with the community, and will have details on that another way – today ... 1 Apr 2010
Buttons with direct content. Better error messages. Designers and developers will like the new parser implementation in Silverlight 4. 29 Mar 2010
At MIX, during my talk on unit testing Silverlight and Windows Phone applications, I demoed a simple application called ‘Peppermint’. Here’s the source; I’ll be writing up a full tutorial on Windows Phone later, so these are just ‘bleeding-edge bits’. Peppermint-Demo.zip [Zip, 1.2 MB] Silverlight: Requires Visual Studio 2010 (or express) Requires the Silverlight Toolkit ... 26 Mar 2010
Last year, enthused by the Starbucks Mobile Card application for the iPhone, I built an app that displays 2D QR barcodes in Silverlight. Today, in two minutes, I got that running on the Windows Phone. Talk about an awesome development experience. These barcode-displaying apps let you get rid of the plastic in your wallet and ... 26 Mar 2010
Thanks to the rich data binding system built into Silverlight for Windows Phone, you can easily store rich user settings without using code behind files. The canonical example of user settings is a “Show this welcome screen at startup” checkbox so that your application can offer a nice out-of-box experience. By writing a simple type ... 25 Mar 2010
I’ve received a number of emails and questions from developers about the next release of the Silverlight Toolkit and wanted to take a moment to address the lack of a March release. Although we had previously talked about a March 2010 release to coincide with the Silverlight 4 RC at MIX, we have decided not ... 25 Mar 2010
I received word this week that I’m moving offices next month. It’s only fitting for an off-topic post about my current office; if nothing else, this can serve as a sort of memorial for me to look back on once I’m back in a storage closet somewhere. I also received a few questions at MIX ... 24 Mar 2010
Are you looking for WrapPanel for your Windows Phone application? Look no further. The Silverlight Toolkit has several controls that work pretty well on the Windows Phone. I wanted to provide my own informal look at how it’s working with Silverlight for Windows Phone today. Note that this information is only current as of today, ... 21 Mar 2010
Thanks to modular MSBuild tasks and components, you can actually build Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on the same build machine, without having .NET 4 installed. This is great for constrained TFS build environments, and although not supported in any way, this does allow you to edit and build simple Silverlight 4 apps created ... 20 Mar 2010
My MIX 10 talk, an introduction to unit testing on Silverlight and the Windows Phone, is now online for streaming and download. Thank you to everyone who attended. An early preview set of bits are online at http://jeffatmix.com/ – and the next release of the Silverlight Toolkit when Silverlight 4 ships will contain support for ... 17 Mar 2010
The source code plugin that I use on my blog is great, but does require that I insert some escaped tags with special class names in the XHTML. For years I’ve used the InsertTagSnippet plugin by Coskun Sunali to help me write posts – but on Windows 7, it doesn’t work well without running Live ... 10 Mar 2010
I’ve adapted a syntax highlighting engine to generate a syntax highlighting TextBlock control for Silverlight. This control has built-in syntax highlighting C#, C++, JavaScript, VB.NET, XAML/XML. In the future, once Silverlight 4 is out, I’ll of course make sure to update this to work with the rich text control to allow for copying and pasting ... 8 Mar 2010
At MIX 10 this year, Tues. 3/16 at 2pm: Learn from Jeff Wilcox how to create and maintain Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series applications using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework. 7 Mar 2010
Here's a simple application (and optional source) for a tool to allow you to quickly Authenticode code sign Visual Studio 2010 extension files (VSIX). 2 Mar 2010
I recently documented the steps to "code signing 101": acquiring a trusted cert/key pair, the process, and then signing an app. 27 Feb 2010
On the Silverlight team, I use this Visual Studio 2010 extension to keep my comments looking pretty. 26 Feb 2010
The AutoCompleteBox control I originally developed for the Silverlight Toolkit is now inside of the WPF Toolkit. 25 Feb 2010
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