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Building CTA Watch on the Developer Smackdown podcast

A few weeks ago I was invited onto the Developer Smackdown podcast to muse about my adventures in Windows Phone development. That episode went live today, and can be found on iTunes/Zune under the series name “The Smackdown.” Of course it can also be streamed by any modern browser from the Developer Smackdown site.

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Onion Architecture code and slides from Chicago Code Camp

This past Saturday was the third annual Chicago Code Camp. If you missed it and you’re in the area, be sure to attend next year! It’s free, and organized by a great group of community leaders here in the greater Chicagoland area. My talk this...

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Transit Directions submitted to windows phone marketplace

I’ve just finished my new app called Transit Directions. As the name hopefully implies, the app helps people get around a city with public transit. It will provide step-by-step directions for 11 cities, with an interactive map to aid the experience. I spent a bunch of time polishing this app to replicate the native Bing Maps app experience, hopefully it paid off. I assume this functionality will be built into the native app with the Mango phone update, but it’s free now and forever, so get it while it’s hot!

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Getting around the missing MouseClick event on the WP7 Bing Maps control

update I’ve updated the code to check for the MapZoom event; also fixed a typo of MapClick to MouseClick. Original Post The Windows Phone Bing Maps control is very close to its desktop Silverlight counterpart, with few missing features. In fact none of the limitations...

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Code from my Chicago Windows Phone presentation

I apologize this is a week late. Below is a zip which includes the slides and solution from my presentation on Caliburn.Micro. It should serve as a pretty good reference application for how to implement the most common functionality in Caliburn.Micro. I’ve also included a...

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