Monthly Archives: April 2010

Bing Maps + oData + Windows Phone 7

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Peter Loebel

Here is a quick Windows Phone 7 client for Nerd Dinner. You can query the Nerd Dinner oData endpoint and see the dinners in the Bing maps as push pins. Also, you can select a Push Pin to view the … Continue reading →

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Unit Testable WCF Web Services in MVVM and Silverlight 4

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Peter Loebel

In all my previous MVVM in Silverlight 4 posts i was avoiding to address one painful aspect of the Silverlight: calling WCF Web Services. And it was not without reason. Lets face it, consuming WCF Web Services from your Silverlight … Continue reading →

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Simplified MVVM: Silverlight 4 Video Player

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Peter Loebel

Introduction This project demonstrates an implementation of the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern to create a fully “Designable” Silverlight Video Player. This is not to be confused with a “Skinable” Video Player. A Skinable Video Player allows you to change the look … Continue reading →

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Enabling Design-Time Data in Expression Blend When Using Web Services

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Peter Loebel

With the help of Mark Boulter, and Unni Ravindranathan at Microsoft, Michael Washington figured out how to show design-time data in Blend when the data is using web services (without writing a line of code). from Michael Washington     … Continue reading →

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Building the Elusive Windows Phone Panorama Control

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Peter Loebel

When the Windows Phone 7 Developer SDK was released a couple of weeks ago at MIX10 many people noticed the SDK doesn’t include a template for a Panorama control.   Here at Clarity we decided to build our own Panorama control … Continue reading →

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A RoleManager to apply roles declaratively to user interface

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Peter Loebel

One of the recurrent questions people ask me in the forums is about the applying of security constraint to the applications being developed. The last releases of useful tools like WCF Ria Services added the capability of bringing the security … Continue reading →

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