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Adding a search contract to the Windows 8 Calibre frontend
published 151 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes ago posted by http://timdams.wordpress.com/http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 161 days, 6 minutes ago
Friday, December 21, 2012 10:06:11 AM GMT Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:15:03 AM GMT
In this post I will show how simple it is to add a search contract to a Windows 8 Store app. This contract allows the user to search within your application from anywhere in Windows 8 using the search charm. We will use my Calibre frontend app to show this. (more)
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Writing a Calibre frontend for Windows8/WinRT using ‘SQLite for WinRT’
published 165 days, 11 hours ago posted by http://timdams.wordpress.com/http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 174 days, 15 hours, 23 minutes ago
Friday, December 07, 2012 2:21:38 PM GMT Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:58:33 AM GMT
While developing a Windows Store frontend application for the Calibre ebookmanager, I’m hitting several bumps along the road. In this post I’ll explain some of the bumps and how I’ve tried to tackle them. Basically they can be summarized as follows: How to access a Sqlite database in a WinRT application Circumvent file access limitation of SQLIte for WinRT Load cover files of each book Create incremental-loading Gridview using ISupportIncrementalLoading (more)
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7 WP7 dev tools you might not know but will want to have
published 525 days, 10 hours, 42 minutes ago posted by http://timdams.wordpress.com/http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 525 days, 16 hours, 9 minutes ago
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 2:39:39 PM GMT Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:12:33 AM GMT
There’s an incredible amount of guides, tools and utilities to be found on the Internet (or should I say ‘tha cloud’?) for Windows Phone 7 developers. Compiled in this article are some of the tools I’ve come across on my searches which I now use frequently but didn’t know the existence of beforehand. Read on to change you WP7 development life. (more)
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tags: mobile app development, WP7
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Learning to cook with WP 7.5 data (a book review)
published 527 days, 13 hours, 9 minutes ago posted by http://timdams.wordpress.com/http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 530 days, 9 hours, 31 minutes ago
Sunday, December 11, 2011 12:12:15 PM GMT Thursday, December 08, 2011 3:49:48 PM GMT
Recently I received a review copy of the “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” by Ramesh Thalli from Packt Publishing (ISBN 978-1-84969-122-2). This book, divided in 8 chapters, shows how simple it is to write data-driven programs WP7 applications. What follows is an extensive review of this book. (more)
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tags: Review, WP7, C#, Book Review
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Creating a WP7 app: Listbox items of the same width
published 527 days, 13 hours, 9 minutes ago posted by http://timdams.wordpress.com/http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 530 days, 9 hours, 35 minutes ago
Sunday, December 11, 2011 12:12:15 PM GMT Thursday, December 08, 2011 3:46:20 PM GMT
I love databound listboxes in WP7. I do. I really do. However, every time I come to the part of making a nice template for each item (i.e. shiny ugly orange border, etc.) I fail in having items of equal size. How can we solve this?Read on! (more)
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tags: WP7, C#, wp7dev, XAML, ListBox
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Strokes: achievements while programming! « Timdams's Blog
published 640 days, 17 hours, 23 minutes ago posted by http://timdams.wordpress.com/http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 645 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes ago
Saturday, August 20, 2011 7:57:43 AM GMT Monday, August 15, 2011 9:14:18 AM GMT
Ok, so I’ve already hinted about this several posts before: an actual implementation of achievements-based programming in Visual Studio is being made as we speak. In this post I will humbly and proudly present the Strokes program that is rapidly evolving into something I’m eager to use in my own classes. Humbly because the work Jonas Swiatek has done is, in my opinion nearly epic, for each component in the project that I understand, there’s about 3 others that I don’t. Proudly because, it being a googlec... (more)
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tags: Achievements, VSX, C#, Visual Studio
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Tutorial on Silverlight 4 databinding in code-behind, custom user controls, etc.
published 810 days, 10 hours, 22 minutes ago posted by http://timdams.wordpress.com/http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 810 days, 15 hours, 58 minutes ago
Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:59:14 PM GMT Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:23:03 AM GMT
This small tutorial was written to show the students the following aspects of Silverlight:Writing a class that can be used for databindingPerform data-binding through code instead of XAMLCreating a custom user controlWriting simple data converters Suppose we are creating a Silverlight game in which each player is represented as a pawn. However, the player class itself is somewhere deep inside the game-engine and we would like the pawn user control to be only loosely coupled to this player ... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, DataBinding, code-behind
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Adding buttons to databound listbox items in WPF
published 810 days, 10 hours, 22 minutes ago posted by http://timdams.wordpress.com/http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 810 days, 15 hours, 59 minutes ago
Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:59:14 PM GMT Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:21:57 AM GMT
Introduction In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to create a listbox in WPF which is databound to a collection, we then would like to add a button to each item in the listbox. Clicking this button will button will delete that item from the collection. Making an ObservableCollection We create a small class which represents a User with a Name and Age: public classUser { public string Name { get; set; } public int Age { get; set; } } In the code-behind of our MainWindow we the create a new ... (more)
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tags: DataBinding
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Using Linq to filter a databound listbox in WPF/Silverlight « Timdams's Blog
published 810 days, 10 hours, 22 minutes ago posted by http://timdams.wordpress.com/http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 810 days, 16 hours, 2 minutes ago
Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:59:14 PM GMT Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:18:47 AM GMT
In this short tutorial I show how to use Linq in order to filter the items shown in a listbox, which in turn is databound to an ObservableCollection. Suppose we use the listbox created in the previous tutorial where we show the age and name of each user in the collection. All our databinding code-remains the same as before. What we have to add is a new collection in between our original source and the listbox. The in between collection is our Linq-query result. Each time we wish to change our filter, we... (more)
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tags: DataBinding, Linq, Silverlight 2
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Using enum flags to write filters in Linq « Timdams's Blog
published 808 days, 4 hours, 6 minutes ago posted by http://timdams.wordpress.com/http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 810 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes ago
Saturday, March 05, 2011 9:15:18 PM GMT Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:17:20 AM GMT
Here’s the premise. Suppose we have a cookbook that contains all possible recipes with their names and needed ingredients. Using Linq it should be easy to query the cookbook and, for example, only show those recipes you can make given one or more ingredients you have at your house. My solution is a) extremely nice or b) very strange, bloated and way wrong. I leave it up to you and make sure to message me if you have a much nicer solution…because franky, I’m not a big fan of what follows (I have the itchi... (more)
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tags: enum, Linq