I’ve been working with Silverlight (specifically for Windows Phone 7) recently and something I’ve found useful is the ability to “bubble” PropertyChanged event up. So for example; 1: public class MainPageViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged...

I’ve been building a Windows Phone 7 application that basically lets a user create records offline, and then pushes those up to a cloud service when network connectivity is available. These offline records are not as offline as I would like though...

Today I had a really enjoyable time presenting at the Microsoft Online Cloud Conference . A number of attendees have been in touch to ask for the slides. Confused as to why they were so popular I asked - they were mostly just pictures and not text –...

… and ‘plugging any nasty leaks you might see’ . Recently I worked on a proof of concept where we wanted to leverage the power of WPF and DataTemplates on a server to generate images. This is actually surprisingly easy and, unsurprisingly...

I’m currently prepping for my TechEd Europe WP7 session and I like to prepare for the worst. My demo relies on some cloud services and also on WP7 push notifications. Push notifications are nice but they have one drawback for demos, I need an internet...

I recently had a query from a customer that was one of those ones that you think “Aha! That’s easy, you just do this”. Then you think a bit more about it and realise that if you want to do it properly it’s not quite as simple as...

Our next SoundByte, “ The Free Lunch is Over – Patterns for Parallelisation ”, will be run on Friday 15 th October 2010 from 11:00 – 12:00 UK Time . The session is charged at the rate of 1 hour from your ADM contract for up...