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  • Mobile

    Building The Wisconsin Gameday Mobile Application

    Being a web application developer in higher education brings with it numerous challenges, not the least of which is the sheer diversity of projects. Case in point: In January 2012 the Athletic Department here at the University of Wisconsin contacted my group...
    May 27, 2021 8 min read
  • Mobile

    Windows 8: Storing JSON Data for Conference Buddy

    Once we gather the data, we’d like to save it to a format that will be consistent across Windows 8 C# and Windows 8 Javascript, as well as Windows 8 Phone. For now, we’ve settled on JSON as a common persistence and wire-format. While JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, there are good libraries for converting .NET objects to JSON and back.
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Mobile

    Windows 8: Adding An AppBar to Conference Buddy

    In the most recent posting, we looked at a wire-frame that illustrated some of the data we’ll be collecting. The user fills in the fields, but then how does the user indicate Save or Cancel? It would be tempting to add buttons right beneath the data entry form, but the design guidelines call for keeping Chrome, including such buttons, out of sight.
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Creating a Level Meter with RadRadialGauge

    I received an email from an old buddy on the Windows team at Microsoft, who is using Telerik RadControls for Windows 8 to build an application. He asked how to create a RadRadialGauge with 0 at the center, and negative numbers to the left and positive numbers to the right (click on illustration for full size) for his Level Meter (part of a Synthesizer control). None of the examples show how to do this, but it really only takes setting four properties to get just the effect he was looking for...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read