Posts Tagged ‘SilverlightShow’

Windows Phone + SignalR = Awesome Possibilities!

Posted: March 1, 2012 in Articles, Windows Phone 7 Stuff
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I guest-blogged for SilverlightShow recently:

Windows Phone + SignalR combo in action!

Real-time communication. Many software applications on variety of platforms & form factors have a genuine need for it. But persistent networks, real-time connectivity & asynchrony continue to challenge us developers in building such applications. Is there a silver lining? Could we have near-real-time communication in our mobile apps? Imagine the possibilities.

SignalR is an async persistent connection library for client-server communication that aids in building real-time, multi-user connected applications across multiple platforms. In this article, we take a quick deep dive into SignalR usage and how to leverage this technology from a Windows Phone application. Real-time communication with a backend server on a personal device like the Windows Phone has potentially tons of ways to apply SignalR in Apps.

Full article with screenshots, code samples & downloadable source code can be found HERE.

All the other great SilverlightShow content on Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone, Windows 8 & other related technologies can be found at http://silverlightshow.net. Cheers!

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SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone

Posted: December 19, 2011 in Articles, Windows Phone 7 Stuff
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Another day .. another article for SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow)! You can find all the other great SilverlightShow content @ http://silverlightshow.net.

I have been a long-time SkyDrive user. So, it was a lot of fun playing with the Live Connect API:

Guess how many people use Live Services? 500 million plus! And when our applications connect to the same services, they start feeling right at home with what our users are already used to. Microsoft recently opened the Live Connect APIs, along with some SDKs for 3rd party applications on desktop/web/mobile platforms to leverage the cloud offerings from Live Services. In this short article, we take a look at how we could get started using the Live Connect API from our Windows Phone applications and interact with SkyDrive storage through the new Live SDK.

Full article with screenshots, code samples & downloadable source code can be found HERE.

What’s special about this one? Last article of the year .. done with writing in 2011! See you on the other side :)

Adios!

Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData

Posted: December 9, 2011 in Articles, Windows 8
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SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow) is a wonderful resource for daily Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 news, exclusive articles, tutorials, videos and training. I would encourage anybody interested in Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone & other related technologies to check out the SilverlightShow content @ http://silverlightshow.net.

I guest-blogged a series of 2 articles for SilverlightShow:

So, you have heard the buzz about the brave new world of Windows 8 from MSFT’s BUILD Conference! Ready to get your hands muddy? In this short 2-part article series, we talk about how to get started towards writing data-driven (specifically OData) Windows 8 Metro apps with XAML & C#. Here’s what we’ll cover:

  • Part 1 – Handling of OData from our XAML Metro App [Consumption & Updates to OData source]
  • Part 2 – How to make your XAML App a well-behaved Windows 8 citizen [Artwork, Snapped Views, Contracts, Application Bar etc]

Full article with screenshots, code samples & downloadable source code can be found @ PART 1 and PART 2.

Cheers SilverlightShow!

Adios

OData caching on Windows Phone .. & an eBook!

Posted: November 24, 2011 in Articles, Windows Phone 7 Stuff
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SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow) is a wonderful resource for daily Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 news, exclusive articles, tutorials, videos and training. I would encourage anybody interested in Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone & other related technologies to check out the SilverlightShow content @ http://silverlightshow.net.

I guest-blogged my 3rd article for SilverlightShow yesterday:

OData seems to have a lot of promise in simplifying data access across multiple platforms by using fundamental technologies of HTTP and Atom/JSon. Using an OData source for data consumption/updates in your Windows Phone application? In this short article, we take a quick look at a data caching strategy in our Windows Phone applications while using an OData data source. While we talk about a Windows Phone solution in particular, these concepts are perfectly applicable when using OData on other mobile platforms.

Full article with screenshots, code samples & downloadable source code can be found HERE.

Also, SilverlightShow was gracious enough to compile my articles in a short eBook, with the overall theme of OData usage in Windows Phone & Azure augmentation of mobile applications. Details HERE.

Cheers SilverlightShow!

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Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data

Posted: September 22, 2011 in Articles
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With my first article (here) with SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow) being well-accepted, I was encouraged to write some more. A second article was just published, which dabbled around the broad subject of Windows Phone applications leveraging Azure. It can be seen as a natural continuation of the first; but in this article, we talk about using WCF Services hosted in Windows Azure, instead of using OData feeds. This way, we get to empower our Mobile applications with remote data connectivity and have fine-grained control over security & operations supported through a universally-accessible Service. You may find the article here:

Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data

Please feel free to leave me some feedback. Thanks to SilverlightShow for publishing my article & to you for reading.

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Connecting Azure and Windows Phone through OData

Posted: September 6, 2011 in Articles
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So, SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow) is a wonderful resource for daily Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 news, exclusive articles, tutorials, videos and training. I would encourage anybody interested in Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone & other related technologies to check out the SilverlightShow content @ http://silverlightshow.net.

Recently, I decided to author some content for the SilverlightShow team using my little Windows Phone knowledge. My first article was published today — “Connecting Azure and Windows Phone through OData“. Essentially, a detailed blog post explaining how Windows Azure & OData can be leveraged in Windows Phone & other mobile applications. Please check it out if interested!

Hopefully, I can cough up more articles in the near future. Cheers SilverlightShow!

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