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Windows Phone 7 and Azure, Better Together

The next Cloud Computing User Group Meeting for Dallas will be on Thursday, September 2nd from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at Microsoft (Las Colinas Office, Building LC1). The presentation will be done by Derek Martin and Trent Foley and will cover Windows Phone 7 and Azure. September 2nd, 2010 6:00pm –...

Posted to ChrisKoenig (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-01-2010
My “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application

I’ve done a TON of Windows Phone 7 demos over the past few months, and I get asked all the time for access to download my samples. I’ve been meaning to post this application since I started all of this, but just never got around to it. SO – here it is… the now Infamous

Posted to ChrisKoenig (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2010
InputScopes for Windows Phone 7

I have used Shawn Oster’s excellent InputScopes blog post and accompanying demo in the past when talking about Silverlight and the first revisions of the Windows Phone 7 dev tools, but noticed today when I was prepping for a talk that it no longer seems to work right with the Beta bits. After a little

Posted to ChrisKoenig (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-17-2010
MVVM Light Messaging

Since I started using the MVVM Light toolkit, I’ve gotten lots of questions about the it. In this post, I’m going to show you the basics of using the Messaging infrastructure. In the sample application attached, we have the situation where a Master page with a list of data items is trying to move to

Posted to ChrisKoenig (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2010
Adding MVVM Light Toolkit to an Existing Project

I’ve been meaning to write this up for a while, but seeing a question on Stack Overflow tonight prompted me to do it tonight, so here goes. It’s relatively simple to add MVVM Light to an existing project. I’m going to use Silverlight as a sample, but you can do the same thing for WPF

Posted to ChrisKoenig (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-02-2010
Open Source Databases for WP7

One of the most frequent questions I get about the WP7 platform is “when are we going to get local database support?” Thanks to the heroic efforts of SergeyBarskiy, APPA Mundi and McObject, the Open Source community has responded with two alternatives for local database support on WP7: Windows...

Posted to ChrisKoenig (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-30-2010
Silverlightplooza! It’s a wrap!

I had a great time over the weekend teaching and working with folks from all over South Central at our first ever Silverlightpalooza! This two-day event was a combination instructor-led introduction to Silverlight, WP7, Blend and RIA Services and hands-on instructor-led-labs + code-a-thon. ...

Posted to ChrisKoenig (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-22-2010
June 2010 Meeting

Our June 2010 meeting will be held on Wednesday June 23rd, 2010 6pm at Justin Brands. Please join us as our very own FWDNUG Officers, Cory Smith and Roger Guess, present: "What's New in Visual Studio 2010" Meeting Sponsor TEKsystems® provides technology execution services, helping businesses...

Posted to Meetings (Weblog) by sswienton on 06-21-2010
Silverlightpalooza! WP7 and Silverlight DevCamp

Come Join Us for two day s of Code and Fun with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7! We will start Friday June 18th with a walkthrough of the tools and some key skills to get you started. The goal is to provide a foundation to enable groups to build dynamic Windows Phone 7 applications using

Posted to ChrisKoenig (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-02-2010
Wow! I can't believe I found this code...

Going through a bunch of old floppy disks and copying the files to my home server in an effort to get rid of these things, I happened across a bit of source code from WAAAAAAAAAY back. (March 7th, 1990 to be precise.) For a few years around 1990, a friend of mine (Sean) and I ran a very successful BBS...

Posted to corysmith (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-26-2010

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