Rudi Grobler is happy to announce that you can now install the WPF Themes via NuGet.
Source: Rudi Grobler in the Cloud
“NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update open source libraries and tools in Visual Studio.” To make your WPF application look pretty is now soooo simple, just right-click on your references and Add Library Package Reference…
Rudi Grobler has a short blog post on how to make your ApplicationBar more MVVM friendly.
One of the small issues with using MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) in a WP7 application is that both ApplicationBarIconButton & ApplicationBarMenuItem do NOT derive from DependencyObject. This means that I can NOT bind to any of its properties, making a “true” MVVM application a little hard! I created 2 simple wrappers for these that make it possible to “bind” to a method.
Rudi Grobler posted about this audio recorder for Windows Phone 7.
Professional Audio Recorder (PAR) is an audio recorder for Windows Phone 7. PAR uses the build in microphone (via XNA) and the NAudio audio library to record and visualize audio.
This blog post of Rudi Grobler is about the WP7 camera.
Before you start, you need to get the Microsoft.Phone.Media.Extended.dll and GAC it. For more information on this, read this and this!
If you need a relational database or if your application currently uses SQLite and you want to port it to Windows Phone 7, this post of Rudi Gobler might be very helpful.
C# Sqlite Port for Windows phone 7 and possibly Silverlight 3, 4. The core engine was slightly modified to be used with IsolatedStorage and SqliteClient were ported by using missing codes from Mono project in order to maximize usability and portability from desktop
Rudi Grobler demonstrates a simple way with which you can have full barcode support in your WP7 application.
Barcode scanning doesn’t have loads of practical use on a desktop (besides point-of-sale terminals) but on a mobile device it’s a whole new ball game! Imagine a word where you can pick up an item, scan it with your phone and it gets delivered to your door… there are loads of scenarios where barcode scanning on you device makes sense! How difficult is it to do barcode scanning on a Windows Phone 7 device?
Rudi Grobler takes a quick look at the Sterling database available on WP7.
Sterling is a lightweight object-oriented database implementation for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 that works with your existing class structures. Sterling supports full LINQ to Object queries over keys and indexes for fast retrieval of information from large data sets.
Rudi Grobler has started a new series (with the strange name Mahhala - isiZulu word for free or without charge) that showcase some of the cool free WPF/Silverlight controls available. Here are the first post from the series:
In this post, Rudi Grobler shares with you his list of WP7 must-have toolkits.
If you do ANY serious Windows Phone 7 development, here are a couple of toolkits you MUST HAVE.
Rudi Grobler has published a list of blogs which authors write about Silverlight, WPF, XAML and WP7.
Want to learn more about WPF/Silverlight/XAML/WP7? Here is the list of all the WPF Disciples!