Posts by John Garland

I have uploaded the content from my Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight talk at the Tech Valley .Net User Group meeting last night in Albany. The content can be found here, and includes: Presentation slides, which include the reference links I mentioned during the talk. The sample code, broken into 2 projects.…

Scope Your SIP – sounds painful, doesn’t it?  Adding on to Jeff‘s series concerning WP7 Silverlight development tips, I figured it worthwhile to add another one.  The SIP is the Software Input Panel – AKA the Phone’s onscreen keyboard.  One of the handy features of the SIP is the ability to customize it to fit…

The previous 2 posts discussed using the Page and Application State Dictionaries to restore state following the application being tombstoned, as well as some other potential uses for the Application State Dictionary.  This final post in the series will cover the user of Isolated Storage from Windows Phone applications. Isolated Storage Basics Isolated Storage provides…

The previous post discussed using the Page State Dictionary to restore a page’s state when navigating back to that page following the application being tombstoned. This post will discuss the use of the Application State Dictionary, and the final post in the series will discuss using Isolated Storage. The Application State Dictionary The Application State…

The Windows Phone platform offers several mechanisms for preserving your application’s state…the key is knowing which one to use when, and why.  I’m going to try to provide some guidance to help answer those questions. First things first – there are 3 key mechanisms provided for saving application state on the phone (4 if you…

I have uploaded the content from my Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight talk at the New Hampshire (Concord) .Net User Group meeting last night in Concord.  The content can be found here, and includes: ·     Presentation slides, which include the reference links I mentioned during the talk. ·     The sample code, broken into 2…

I have uploaded the content from my Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight talk at the New England Visual Basic Professionals meeting in Waltham on December 2. There content can be found here, and includes: Presentation slides, which include the reference and event links I mentioned during the talk. The sample code, broken…

I have uploaded the content from my Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight talk at the New England Silverlight Guild meeting in Connecticut on November 16.  There content can be found here, and includes: · Presentation slides, which include the reference and event links I mentioned during the talk. · The sample code,…

I have uploaded the content from my Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight talk at the Maine Bytes User Group meeting on November 11.  The content can be found here, and includes: Presentation slides, which include the reference and event links I mentioned during the talk The sample code.  Because the demos were…

I have uploaded the content from my two talks at the New England Code Camp – Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight and Advanced Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight.  The content can be found here and here (Slideshare links here and here.)  The uploaded content includes: ·         Presentation slides, which include the…