Whether you’ve just purchased a Gadgeteer like me, or you’re just curious, this post will give you some quick links and helpful tips to get started. What is Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer? Really cool plug’n’play style hardware for programmers. Starting with a mainboard and a power module, you can connect an awesome array of modular components [...]

You know when you select multiple emails and the application bar swaps out for a different one? No? We’ll get ready to learn. This trick looks much better than enabling and disabling menu items on your application bar and is dead simple to achieve. Step 1: Create your Application Bars Make sure you have the [...]

You know that cool swooshing transition you get when you click an email on your Windows Phone? Now you too can make use of that awesome transition using only the Silverlight Toolkit and this handy dandy Continuum Transition class. Step 1 – Go get the Silverlight Toolkit!! As always, I suggest you use Nuget to [...]

One of the cool new controls in the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone Mango is the Long List Selector. This post will show you how to get one looking nice, complete with alphabetised grouping. Step 1: Make sure you have the Silverlight Toolkit referenced The best way to do this is via Nuget:     [...]

The MVC Mini Profiler is an awesome tool that can help you reduce your page load times by showing you exactly how long each action, database query, view and even partial view took to load. It can be a little tricky to get right, especially using Entity Framework, but if you follow these steps you [...]

With the unveiling of my brand new blog theme, you may notice a cool little quirk that appears every time you scroll past the header. That’s right not only does the sidebar follow you, but it also pops up a cool mini version of my main header. This post will describe the surprisingly difficult time [...]

TwitLinkz takes your favourite twitter feeds, pulls out the links and summarizes the articles for you. It’s as simple as that. If you source your up to the minute news from twitter, Twitlinkz is a great way to browse the headlines. Available in the marketplace now, TwitLinkz is free and is set to change the [...]

After taking a while to explore other ventures, I’ve finally come back strong with a gleaming new update to Torrential, the WP7 uTorrent Remote Control App. The update is now with Microsoft so you should be receiving it soon, but while we wait, let’s check out what I’ve done: Live Tiles Expect to see these [...]

Last week I was asked to provide the live tiles for my application to put towards a “Wall of Live Tiles” display that Microsoft will be showing off in an upcoming event for Windows Phone 7. I was more than happy to join the wall, but my tiles weren’t exactly the greatest looking things in [...]

Finally we arrive at the thrilling conclusion to my push notifications miniseries. This time we will actually push a notification to a device we have previously recorded. Posts in the series: Code on the device – This will handle everything you need to put into your wp7 app Code on the server – This will [...]