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Windows 8 Development Tips #9: Get a Windows 8 tablet
When you're developing for Windows 8 you need to acknowledge that you are developing for a touch-first platform. This means that as you design your app you will constantly need to be aware of the...
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Get DependencyProperty by Name for WPF and Silverlight
Have you ever needed to create bindings to elements without knowing, or having access to, their DependencyProperty until runtime? Have you ever had the need to get the DependencyProperty of an element...
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Adaptive/Responsive Web Design - Don't Neglect The Users
What is responsive Web design (RWD)? You don't need me to tell you--there are hundreds if not thousands of articles on the Web, not to mention a few books. I've personally read about twenty some odd...
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3 of the most interesting UI improvements in SharePoint 2013
The Modern UI“Modern” is the new name for what we used to call “Metro.” But this being a 2013 Microsoft product, it of course sports the new standard Microsoft user interface. Does it work better in...
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A Silverlight x:Type Markup Extension
A while back I wrote a x:Static markup extension for Silverlight that mimicked WPF’s x:Static functionality. Well, today I had an email from a reader asking if I could provide the code for a...
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PHP Server-side wrapper for the Ignite UI File Upload
I’ve been recently having plenty of fun shifting platforms like a mad man and I feel it’s time to share some goodness with you all. Let’s have ourselves some PHP (and even if that’s not your thing you...
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Herding Cats – It’s a Career!
Can you remember a time at the beginning of summer, when the weather was just starting to heat up and you were considering going swimming for the first time that year? You had your swimsuit on, but you...
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Casting Variables in C (No, You’re Not Just Bad at Math)
Warning: I always assume that every error in my programming occurs because I am terrible at math. You can therefore imagine my shock and excitement when I learned that one of my very first errors was...
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Responsive Web Design and Interaction Prototyping
As the product manager for Indigo Studio, I get to keep an eye on what people are talking about in terms of interaction design and, especially, prototyping for interaction design, what I like to call...
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A Silverlight BooleanToVisibilityConverter
Here is my Silverlight BooleanToVisibilityConverter. I know this is a very common and simple converter that every Silverlight developer has in their toolbox. It’s not a new concept or groundbreaking...
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NetAdvantage for WPF Release Notes – January: 12.1, 12.2 Service Releases
Release notes reflect the state of resolved bugs and new additions from the previous release. You will find these notes useful to help determine the resolution of existing issues from a past release...
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NetAdvantage for Silverlight Release Notes - January: 12.1, 12.2 Service...
Release notes reflect the state of resolved bugs and new additions from the previous release. You will find these notes useful to help determine the resolution of existing issues from a past release...
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HTML5 Webinars Follow-up : Get Sample Code
I'd like to thank everyone who attended this week's HTML5/JS webinars. The following is a list of related resources.How to Build an HTML5/JS Single Page ApplicationDownload VideoSample CodeHow to...
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Melbourne & Sydney Appfest for Windows 8 / Windows Phone / Azure
There are 2 big events happening in Australia over the next few weeks.The first is a three day Sydney Appfest from Friday February 15th – Sunday February 17th. Details of it can be found on the...
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Prototyping for Windows 8: The Making of RecipeLater
Every great application begins with a thoroughly thought out application design. With its heavy design focus, the Windows 8 platform demands more at the design stage than many developers may be...
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User interface design for televisions
2013 would seem to be the year of the TV. Last year saw a sort of awakening for many manufacturers, with the likes of Samsung and Sony releasing some really quite smart devices. But this year, if...
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Boise Code Camp March 16, 2013 - Call for Speakers
It’s that time again! Boise Code Camp is a free-to-the-community event and has become Boise’s premier software development technical event. Boise Code Camp offers a full day of technology learning for...
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Create Your Own iOS Framework
If you're new to programming in iOS and are coming from a .Net background (like myself), you may be wondering where all the dlls are. Well, instead of dlls the platform works in terms Frameworks, which...
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Avoid this Obscure Error when Using the igGrid Control by Selecting the Right...
Instantiating the igGrid control is straight-forward; you can simply create the control with a call similar to $("#grid").igGrid() and pass in grid options depending on your requirements. While it’s...
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Get a Sneak Peek at the XamPropertyGrid CTP
Back before I worked at Infragistics, I was the author of an open source project on CodePlex called the Extended WPF Toolkit. You may or may not have heard of it. One of the most popular controls in...
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