I loved writing my Data Points column in MSDN Magazine … sometimes I find it hard to believe I wrote for them for over 11 years! Since I love writing, and specifically I love writing columns, I recently started writing a column [http://visualstudiomagazine.com/Blogs/OnWard-and-UpWard/2011/08/John-Pa
Dave Crawford and Tom Eddings visit from the UK to contribute to the Design Tips miniseries [http://jpapa.me/sltv81]. Dave and Tom have tremendous amounts of experience helping to create great UX for Windows Phone 7 applications in the marketplace. [http://jpapa.me/sltv81] Topics they cover incl
Jesse Liberty explains how Reactive Extensions work with Silverlight and Windows Phone [http://jpapa.me/sltv80]. In order to simplify the code, Jesse suggests using Reactive Extensions whenever you are deep into using asynchronous programming. He covers exactly what Reactive Extensions are, why you&
Ever bang your head against a wall trying to figure out what's wrong with your data binding XAML? If so, then you will love the new data binding debugging features in Silverlight 5. In this episode of Silverlight TV, Jason Shaver joins John to discuss the data binding debugging features in Silve
In Silverlight TV #78 [http://jpapa.me/sltv78], Corrina continues the Design Tips miniseries by sharing her insights on how to create tiles and splash screens for Windows Phone applications. She walks through the process of creating an icon in Expression Design and how to make tiles look good and qu
