Many thanks to the participants, organizers, and sponsors of today’s LIDNUG webinar – “Putting the Cloud in Your Pocket Pt1 – Using Windows Azure to Build Cloud-Enabled WP7 Apps.”  I especially appreciate the patience of those who attended as we struggled to do the best we could to resolve the LiveMeeting technical issues that dogged us during the presentation.  For what it is worth, prior to the presentation, the LIDNUG folks made sure we did a technical walkthrough to do everything …

I had a tremendous time this weekend presenting alongside Bill Wilder, Michael Collier, John Zablocki, and Jim O’Neil at the Boston Azure Bootcamp event in Cambridge, MA.  The topic once again covered the concepts of using Windows Azure to enhance mobile Windows Phone application and general mobile development considerations, and went beyond my demos to include a hands on lab that most everyone seems to have enjoyed. As promised, the slide and code content I referred to in my talk can be …

I would like to thank the attendees of my “Putting the Cloud in Your Pocket - A Guide to Using Windows Azure to Build Cloud-Enabled Windows Phone Apps” talk at the recent Codestock event – especially considering the early hour following the previous night’s fun.  The slide and code content I referred to in my talk can be found here.   Also, many thanks go out to the event organizers – I had a great time traveling down to Tennessee for this event, and hope to maybe do so again in …

You may have noticed that in many places of the Windows 8 Metro UI, as well as many Metro applications where list content can be selected, that making a selection automatically/magically (“automagically”) brings up one or more app bars.  This is consistent with the “Guidelines and checklist for app bars” published in the Metro Style Apps Dev Center: Do place contextual commands on an app bar and show that bar programmatically. If you have commands that are specific to the mode of …

As anyone who has implemented the INotifyPropertyChanged interface knows, the fact that the PropertyChangedEventArgs takes a property name as a string means that you are one fat-fingered mistake away from a bug that can sometimes be difficult to track down.  If the property name supplied in the string doesn’t match the actual property name, the data binding (or other operations) that relies on this interface doesn’t work properly. 1: public Int32 MyProperty

2: { …

A recent network “hiccup” posed a bit of a challenge to a demo that was built around showing how the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone (WATWP) NuGet packages make it easy to add Windows Azure cloud features to a Windows Phone 7 application.  So how do you access NuGet content when a network connection isn’t available?  What if you want to exert some management over the updates that are exposed to the developers in your enterprise, including exposing often-used or internal-use …

Many thanks to the attendees of my presentation tonight covering Developing Cloud Enabled Windows Phone Applications with Windows Azure.  I apologize once again for the technical network-related gremlins that decided to attack us tonight…hopefully the workaround covered the necessary ground and everyone was able to see the concepts I was trying to show.

As promised, I have posted the content for the presentation here.  This includes the slide deck with the various resource links, as …

I would like to thank the organizers and attendees of the recent 16th (wow!) Boston Code Camp where I did a talk on Developing Cloud-Enabled Windows Phone Applications with Windows Azure – and special thanks to everyone who stuck it out once the snow started falling in order to catch my talk.  Obviously, it took longer than expected to get this content posted – Nashua got hit especially hard by the storm, including a 75% city-wide power outage the day following the Code Camp event, along …