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Episode #205: Consuming a Web Api Endoints

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

This episode we are we are going to take a another look at the Asp.Net Web Api framework. However, in this episode we are going to look at how we can consume an endpoint in our console application. We will learn how to create the connection as well as how to handle the data which we recieve from our call.

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Episode #204: Self Hosting Web Api

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

This episode we are we are going to take a look at the Asp.Net Web Api framework. We are going to learn how we can self host a Web API endpoint inside our own application, outside of IIS.

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Episode #203: Introduction to the Async/Await CTP

Derik Whittaker — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

This episode we are we are going take a look at how to simplify asynchronous coding by utilizing the Async CTP.

The async CTP is a library is based off of the Task Parallel Library which introduced the Task<> type use. In this episode we will learn how to use the async and await keywords in the Async CTP

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Episode #202: Silverlight - Learning how to use Value Converters

Derik Whittaker — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

This episode we are we are going to take a look at how to use and harness the power of Value Converters.

A Value Converter (IValueConverter) allows for you to perform custom logic during Bind time in XAML based applications. With a value converter you can implement pretty much any type of complex logic you want (bool to visibility, changing styles, etc) at runtime and have this logic extracted away in a stand alone class.

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Episode #201: Silverlight - Learning how to use Behaviors

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

This episode we are we are going to take a look at how to use and harness the power of Behaviors.

A Behavior in Silverlight is a way to extend an existing UI element in order to add additional state or actions to it. We can create these Behaviors and attach them to pretty much any UI element you could hope for.

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Episode #200: Postsharp - Working with Advanced Aspects

Matthew Groves — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Matthew Groves

This episode we are we are going to continue to take a look at how to use the AOP (Aspect Orientated Programming) framework Postsharp.

In this episode we will focus on how to use the OnMethodBoundry, MethodInterceptions, LocationInterception and EventInterception Aspects. We will look at how each of these can be used and how they can be used in conjuction with each other to build a better application.

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Episode #199: NuGet - Getting Started w/ NuGet

Derik Whittaker — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

This episode we are we are going to learn how to use the NuGet Package Management System.

We will start off by looking at how to install NuGet inside of Visual Studio. We will then learn how to use NuGet to install/uninstall packages. We will end the episode by looking at how to create our first NuGet Package.

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Episode #198: WP7 - Creating and Using Associations w/ SQL CE

Derik Whittaker — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

This episode we are we are going to take another look at SQL CE on WP7 Mango.

However, in this episode we will go a step further and learn how to setup relationships (aka associations) between our tables (aka models). We will focus on how to use the [Association] attribute to link our parent-child models together.

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Episode #197: WP7 - Getting Started w/ SQL CE

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

This episode we are we are going to take a look at how to setup and use SQL Ce inside your WP7 Mango Applications.

Prior to Mango being released developers had to resource to storing their data in isolated storage, but now with SQL CE they can use a full RDBM system to store their data. In this episode we will take a look at how to get up and running with SQL CE

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Episode #196: Postsharp - Getting Started with AOP using Postsharp

Matthew Groves — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Matthew Groves

This episode we are we are going to take a look at how to implemented AOP (Aspect Orientated Programming) with PostSharp.

We will be using the Postsharp library in this episode and we will take a look at how to create our first Aspect as well as how to use the metadata with the aspect to provide real business value in your application.

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Episode #195: WP7 - Learning how to use Live Tiles

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

This episode we are we are going to take a look at how we can use Live Tiles in WP7 (Mango).

WP7 Mango has introduced not only the ability to create Application Tiles via code but they have also added the ability to create Secondary Tiles, tiles which can deep link into your application. These Secondary tiles can also be created, updated and deleted in code and can provide a very powerful feature for your application.

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Episode #194: MVVM - How to create a ViewModelLocater

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

This episode we are we are going to take a look at how we can create a simple ViewModelLocator to inject our ViewModel into our DataContext at runtime via conventions.

The ViewModelLocator Pattern will allow you to create a very flexable application because it will decouple your Views from your ViewModel. The approach in this episode will take a convention based approach to determine which ViewModel should go with a given View.

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Episode #193: WCF: How to create Custom Message Interceptors

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 16 May 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to extend WCF to create custom Message Interceptors

We will first take a look at how we can create our custom interceptors and hook them into the WCF pipeline. We will then take a look at how we can intercept both inbound and outbound messages to allow us to perform some sort of actions agains the messages.

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Episode #192: WP7: Using Location Services & Bing Maps

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 09 May 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use the Location Services (GPS) built into the Windows Phone 7 platform.

We will first take a look at how we can use the location servcies library on the phone to get the phones current GPS information. We will then take a look at how we can use that information in conjuction w/ the Bing Services to get the street address for the GPS coordinates

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Episode #191: WP7: Learning to read/write to isolated storage

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to read and write data to Isolated Storage for Silverlight on the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Since the WP7 platform does not have a built in RDMS system you must utilized Isolated Storage in order to persist data between runs. We will look at how to both read and write data using 2 different techniques in this episode.

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