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Using AppHarbor, Bitbucket and Mercurial with ASP.NET and Silverlight – Part 1

Posted on 28 October 2011 by Erno de Weerd

Imagine an easy way to create, test and deploy a scalable web application for free. Keep that thought and let’s do it in the time of a single blog post. Create an account for AppHarbor. AppHarbor is, as they call Continue reading →

First Impressions of BUILD

Posted on 14 September 2011 by Erno de Weerd

On this first day of the BUILD conference Microsoft presented details on Windows 8. It was amazing to see how things that we already knew and some new things mixed and matched. Of course, today was mainly overview but we Continue reading →

Windows Phone 7 Navigation

Posted on 27 August 2011 by Erno de Weerd

One of the things that bothered me in the examples of Windows Phone 7 applications was the way the URLs of the pages were scattered throughout the application. As soon as you rename a page or or move it to Continue reading →

Windows Phone 7 MVVM ViewModel ideas

Posted on 26 August 2011 by Erno de Weerd

While writing a Windows Phone 7 application I started out NOT using MVVM. The prototype I started out with to get a feel for the required screens and navigation did not contain much logic and relied on data from a Continue reading →

Adding Noise Using a WPF Shader Effect

Posted on 7 August 2011 by Erno de Weerd

Inspired by this post I decided to try and create a noise effect to make it easier to add some noise to the, sometimes too smooth, gradients in Windows Presentation Foundation.