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  • Mobile

    Windows Phone 8 – Wrapping up the Contact Details Screen in Conference Buddy

    Introduction As a quick introduction, Conference Buddy is an app being written in Windows Phone 8 as well as Windows 8. We will continue working on the Windows Phone 8 app in this blog post. In this blog post, we will complete the contact details page and explore how we can create the multiple Pivot items into an easily readable JSON file.
    January 24, 2013
  • Mobile

    Consuming Services - Handling XML Data

    There are several ways to handle XML data that is returned from services. The most common is to know the shape of the returned data and then searching for the desired data or navigating through the various nodes of the XML document.
    January 23, 2013
  • Mobile

    Adding and Editing Records with AppBar Flyouts

    In my last post, I showed how to simple it is to remove commands from the user interface and place them into the AppBar. The commands for editing records and adding new records are both hardcoded to which record gets edited and what data gets added. That is not a very user friendly way to edit/add records. Windows 8 applications can take advantage of Flyouts for tasks such as getting data into an application, presenting a screen for editing a record, and any other interaction with the user. A Flyout is essentially a mini-form or user control (neither term is technically correct, but you get the point, I believe). Instead of swapping the currently displayed content with another screen for editing records and another screen for adding records, using Flyouts can help keep your users focused on their data and the task at hand.
    January 18, 2013
  • Mobile

    Windows 8–Conference Buddy. Reading JSON From A File

    I’d like to have a page in Conference Buddy that lists all the customer contacts. We’re currently writing these contacts to file in JSON format. My goal for today is to read that file and populate a ListView with the contents, using data binding.
    January 18, 2013
  • Mobile

    Windows 8 AppBars in WinJS

    Microsoft’s guidance for Windows 8 applications is based on content over chrome. Development styles for prior versions of Windows often included navigation controls, buttons, tabs, and other non-content related items intermixed with the data, often obscuring the information that the application was trying to convey. This isn’t to say that we were all doing it wrong all of these years, as there wasn’t a mechanism (or even guidance) in place to provide an alternative.
    January 18, 2013