Tag Archives: .NET
Windows 7 Slates: Touch-First UIs
When it comes to building apps with “Touch-First” user interfaces for Windows 7 Slates, there are a few principles you need to follow. Instead of talking about gestures, swiping, pinching or receiving multi-touch Windows messages, I’m going to stick to … Continue reading
Windows 7 Slates: Rapid App Deployment
If you’re delivering an app that requires all the power of .NET though, you might consider using version 3.51 since it’s part of the Windows 7 OS image. Continue reading
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure
Looking back over the last 6 months of this series of articles, you’ve created wireless-efficient WCF REST + JSON Web Services in Azure to download data from SQL Azure tables to Windows Phone. You’ve maintained in-memory collections of objects in … Continue reading
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Improving the In-Memory Database
About a month ago, I wrote an article intended to help you fill some of the gaps left by the missing SQL Server Compact database. Since your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight app is consuming an ObservableCollection of objects streaming down … Continue reading
Interview with Rob @ Tech Ed Europe 2009
Check out the interview I did with David Goon at Tech Ed Europe 2009 in Berlin. I discuss Microsoft’s Mobile Enterprise Application Platform and talk about how it aligns with Gartner’s MEAP critical capabilities and how it can save money for companies. … Continue reading