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Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #7. How to create a Bing Maps application for Windows Phone 7
In our previous post, I explained how to create an application bar for Windows Phone 7. Bing Maps is one of the applications that is commonly used on phones these days. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a Bing Maps application for Windows Phone 7. This application will provide the feature to view maps in road view and aerial view. This application will also provide the zooming in and zooming out features. I will now demonstrate how easy it is to create a Bing Maps application for Windows Phone 7, using Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. The Bing Maps application...
Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #6. How to create an application bar for Windows Phone 7
In our last post, I explained how to create a control tilt effect application for Windows Phone 7. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create an application bar for Windows Phone 7. This application will allow you to add the menu functionality. It also will allow you to adjust the visibility and opacity of the application bar. I will now demonstrate how easy it is to create an application bar for Windows Phone 7, using Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. The application bar can be created in 4 simple steps as follows: Prerequisites: To create the appl...
Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #5. How to create a control tilt effect application for Windows Phone 7
Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #4. How to implement a model-view-viewmodel pattern in a Windows Phone application
In our last post, I explained how to create a custom indeterminate progress bar application for Windows Phone 7. In this blog, I want to share a sample that will help you to implement a model-view-viewmodel pattern in a Windows Phone application. A model-view-viewmodel pattern is used to separate data from the user interface. This pattern allows the developers to code data models and the designers to create user interfaces. In this sample, I will demonstrate how to create a game tracker application by implementing the model-view-viewmodel pattern. I will now demonstrate how easy it is to implement the model-view-...
Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #3. How to create a custom indeterminate progress bar application for Windows Phone 7
Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #2. How to create a microphone application for Windows Phone 7
In our last post, I explained how to create a mini browser for Windows Phone 7. In this blog, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a microphone application for Windows Phone 7. This application will have the feature to capture audio from a microphone and then play back the captured audio. I will now demonstrate how easy it is to create a microphone application for Windows Phone 7, using Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. The microphone application can be created in 4 simple steps as follows: Prerequisites: To create the microphone application, let’s follow the 4...
Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #1. How to create a mini browser application for Windows Phone 7
I have experienced a lot of fun writing Windows Phone 7 applications in Visual Basic. Web browser is one of the applications that is commonly used on phones these days. In this blog post, I want to share some sample source code that will help you to create a mini browser application for Windows Phone 7. I will now demonstrate how easy it is to develop a mini browser application for Windows Phone 7, using Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. The mini browser application can be created in 3 simple steps: Before you create a mini browser application, you need to install the following applications: ...
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Do you want to work on a product used by millions of developers around the world? I do! Come join me to deliver Visual Studio, the set of developer tools used across Microsoft and around the world. We have open positions available across Test, Dev and PM at varying levels on many projects across Visual Studio Professional. We’re looking for the most talented folks around to help us deliver the core parts of Visual Studio, from the Shell & IDE, languages (VB/C#/F#), packaging & setup, to our future investments in C# & VB. Here are a list of our open positions.&...
VB Core – New compilation mode in Visual Studio 2010 SP1
While most servicing releases do not include new functionality, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 introduced an important new compiler feature that enables Visual Basic to target new platforms that were not previously supported. This was mentioned in some of the initial SP1 blog posts such as Jasonz blog. This is a strategic investment by Microsoft in the future of VB. This provides VB with an increased agility in the future for new platforms to support Visual Basic. This blog provides more information about the feature; let me know if you have more questions. &nbs...