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eat code sleep: April 2012

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Creating Live Tiles for Windows Phone Apps is hard. In this article i will give you our lessons leaned creating our live tile for the XING-App for Windows Phone. The Live Tiles are the #1 differentiator for Windows Phone apps to other platforms. Creating a good live tile is hard and needs several iterations. XING-App live tile iterations. The idea was to bring this information in front of the tile and to have a detail view in the backside of the tile. Now we have all information available immediately.

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eat code sleep: Using the WPF Dispatcher in unit tests

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Using the WPF Dispatcher in unit tests. I have got a problem in my current WPF project when unit testing with mstest. In one of my ViewModels i need to use the dispatcher to set something in the view. While Unit Testing this ViewModel i figured out theAction delegate will never covered. Unit-Test with Dispatcher and BeginInvoke fails. The reason for this behavior is that the dispatcher is not processing any messages when called from the testrunner. A synchronous call. Created by Stephan Wirth. You can ex...

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eat code sleep: Tool tip of the day: NCrunch

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Tool tip of the day: NCrunch. This could be one of the things that you can't live without. The usual steps you go with TDD and Visual Studio at the moment:. Stop and run tests. Stop and run tests. Stop and run tests. You can go with NCrunch. And it look like:. Is an automated parallel continuous testing tool for Visual Studio .NET. I will give it a try. With my current project. Created by Stephan Wirth. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Write programs on WP7. Write programs on the Windows Phone 7.

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eat code sleep: July 2011

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Wp7 emulator tip of the day: Adding an E-Mail account. You can find a useful hack to add an E-Mail account to your Windows Phone emulator. These steps only works with the new Windows Phone SDK 7.1. Created by Stephan Wirth. Wp7 emulator tip of the day: Use your keyboard. I am frustrated not be able to use my keyboard to input text in the windows phone emulator. So login into our XING-App was a funny task every day. But there is a shortcut to activate the hardware keyboard in the emulator. The default sta...

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eat code sleep: November 2011

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In this article i will write about our lessons learned - WP7 login page development. Windows Phone apps are composed of pages that exist on a backstack and. Can be reversed by user with the hardware back key. There are some screens you do not want to come back. Like the login screen. After successfully logged in, the login screen should removed from the backstack. Main page is a panorama control. The first approach for a login was kind of interesting. In this solution we prevent the backstack problem.

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eat code sleep: January 2012

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Windows Phone Hub Control. In this article i will write about our experience with the Xing App main menu development. What do we talk about? When you think about a Windows Phone, the first association that comes up is this metro style and the live tiles. The big new thing with the WP7 is this HUB control. It is the central place on the WP7. Some apps make use to have such a HUB in the app. But be careful! The idea was to include all nessesary informations in the menu in the familiar WP7 Metro style.

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eat code sleep: The Journey to the Cloud

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The Journey to the Cloud. Cloud computing is much more as to swap computing power. To have the option Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) give you more business opportunities and can change the fundamental IT strategy. Colleagues sketch the way in the cloud:. Created by Stephan Wirth. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Write programs on WP7. Write programs on the Windows Phone 7. Silverlight unit test framework. Xing for windows phone. The Journey to the Cloud. Papers in Computer Science. I do have a bug.

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eat code sleep: September 2012

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Lessons Lerned cross platform. The Xing-App is released and one more question is how about cross platform? In this article i will write about our lessons learned to support other platforms. There are many interesting platforms on the market, but how to develop a App for different platforms? Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, August 12, 2012,. When the major platforms are so different? If you wait for the ultimate. It is a long way . Use native applications if . You need top performance.

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eat code sleep: February 2012

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Using the WPF Dispatcher in unit tests. I have got a problem in my current WPF project when unit testing with mstest. In one of my ViewModels i need to use the dispatcher to set something in the view. While Unit Testing this ViewModel i figured out theAction delegate will never covered. Unit-Test with Dispatcher and BeginInvoke fails. The reason for this behavior is that the dispatcher is not processing any messages when called from the testrunner. A synchronous call. Created by Stephan Wirth. It intelli...

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eat code sleep: Windows Phone Hub Control

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Windows Phone Hub Control. In this article i will write about our experience with the Xing App main menu development. What do we talk about? When you think about a Windows Phone, the first association that comes up is this metro style and the live tiles. The big new thing with the WP7 is this HUB control. It is the central place on the WP7. Some apps make use to have such a HUB in the app. But be careful! The idea was to include all nessesary informations in the menu in the familiar WP7 Metro style.