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Building Interactive Maps with Silverlight and Bing Maps
Overview The goal of this blog is to detail each step in the process of creating a functioning Silverlight application using Bing maps. This will also be the first of a series of blogs that explore the versatility and extendibility of this application to other Microsoft technology platforms including SharePoint, CRM, and ASP.NET. We will [...]
Top 5 Reasons To Consider Windows Phone 7 As Your Corporate Mobile Platform
After three years of development and missteps, Microsoft has decided to completely revamp their mobile strategy by releasing a new smartphone platform, Windows Phone 7(WP7). Unlike previous editions of Windows Mobile which unsuccessfully aimed to bring the Windows experience to the mobile device, Windows Phone 7 takes a consumer first approach. The goal for the [...]
Windows Phone 7 – Getting Started
I’m a developer, how do I develop Windows Phone 7 applications? The first thing to know about developing Windows Phone 7 (WP7) applications, and perhaps one of the biggest deviations from past Windows Mobile platform applications is that they are now built with Silverlight. Silverlight is Microsoft’s rich client application framework that lends itself perfectly [...]
Creating a single-click Windows Mobile 6.0 application installer exe
Anyone who has ever installed an application onto a Windows Mobile device has gone through the process of downloading and installing a CAB file. Unfortunately, this process can be a bit tedious and leaves ample room for derivation from the proper technique. At this point, it begs the question, why can’t there by a single [...]
Passing Parameters to a Silverlight Webpart in SharePoint
In this blog, I will outline the steps necessary to pass initialization parameters to a Silverlight webpart within SharePoint. Due to the client-side processing nature of Silverlight applications, it is not easy to get server-side information for use in your Silverlight application during runtime. Fortunately, leveraging the SilverlightApp.InitParameters property makes it quite straight-forward to pass [...]
Using SharePoint Web Services to Integrate SharePoint and Silverlight
When integrating Silverlight with a SharePoint site, it becomes apparent very early on that using data that lives in SharePoint in your Silverlight application will be difficult. The reason being that Silverlight applications run on the client-side. Therefore, a developer wanting to extract list data or use files hosted in SharePoint cannot simply use the [...]