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There are plenty of great blog posts out there on how to get started with Visual Web Parts on SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010, but when I started to go beyond the basics I found that I had to piece together information from various sources to...

Over the past couple of months a handful of our clients have been interested in learning more about our creative process and how user experience affects the culture of our organization.  So along the way I have compiled a deck of slides and thoughts...

Anyone that has an iPhone has undoubtedly been delighted when scrolling through lists for the first time. Aside from the kinetic scrolling, the resistance and elasticity characteristics make for a really nice fluid user experience. These effects are partly...

Anyone that has an iPhone has undoubtedly been delighted when scrolling through lists for the first time. Aside from the kinetic scrolling, the resistance and elasticity characteristics make for a really nice fluid user experience. These effects are partly...

Here is a quick gesture recognizer I wrote for the Windows Phone 7.  You can use the gesture recognizer standalone in code and attach to a UI element or you can also use the behavior + trigger.  The behavior attaches the gesture recognizer to...

This is a continuation of my previous post: Installing UCMA 3.0 and Creating a Communications Server “14” Trusted Application Pool . Now that you have a trusted application pool set up, you can create and host UCMA 3.0 applications.  But first, you...

If you have been tinkering around with the Windows Phone 7 SDK you’ve probably noticed a handful of controls that seem to be missing . The obvious ones are the Panorama and Pivot controls. Fortunately, the phone runs Silverlight, and most of the controls...

If you have been tinkering around with the Windows Phone 7 SDK you’ve probably noticed a handful of controls that seem to be missing . The obvious ones are the Panorama and Pivot controls. Fortunately, the phone runs Silverlight, and most of the controls...

To follow up on my last post, here are a few more debugging tips.   Attach, Attach, Attach In the setup I described previously, I had a Silverlight app and several web services, all hosted on their own port in Cassini. This lead to some lovely cross...

Lots of public transit users at Clarity, and we’ve been working on a WP7 bus tracking app for both CTA and BART (San Fran’s mass transit agency and home to Clarity’s west coast spread) for several months…several years if you count Steve Holstad’s excellent...

Lots of public transit users at Clarity, and we’ve been working on a WP7 bus tracking app for both CTA and BART (San Fran’s mass transit agency and home to Clarity’s west coast spread) for several months…several years if you count Steve Holstad’s excellent...

Manual audio routes before UCMA 3.0 One of my favorite new features in UCMA 3.0, the new version of the Unified Communications Managed API that goes with Communications Server “14,” is the interfaces that give developers control over audio routing within...

This is a preview of a quick app I built for Windows Phone 7 to remotely control a PowerPoint presentation from a WP7 device. The app consists of a PowerPoint add-in that hosts a WCF service. The add-in creates a ribbon menu item to connect to the phone...

This is a preview of a quick app I built for Windows Phone 7 to remotely control a PowerPoint presentation from a WP7 device. The app consists of a PowerPoint add-in that hosts a WCF service. The add-in creates a ribbon menu item to connect to the phone...

This post was born out of a long and frustrating process of trying to debug two Silverlight apps. While you can apply these tips more generally as you choose, I can only promise they are relevant in the following situation: Your Silverlight application...