software design

In this episode of The Full Stack, Jesse and Jon reboot their windows phone client project using Test Driven Development (TDD) and the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. Previous episodes focused on getting different technologies such as Windows Phone, WCF, and OData, connected. With a better...

Scott is in Redmond this week and talks to Jeff Derstadt, the Lead Developer on Entity Framework Code First (or, as Scott says, EF Magic Unicorn). What's the deal with this new feature in Entity Framework? What about the bad rap that EF got back in the day? What's new in EF4 and how does EF Code...

Software design efforts stepped up to support more operating systems Qualcomm on Tuesday said it is stepping up its software efforts as its chips begin supporting more operating systems, including Microsoft's upcoming Windows OS, which will be targeted at mobile devices, tablets and PCs. Link...

New Windows Phone 7 applications are being uploaded to the marketplace all the time. But is your application standing out? This week, John and Corrina Black kick off a new Silverlight TV mini series called "Windows Phone 7 Design Tips with Corrina" to highlight ways you can improve the design of...

Sean McKenna and Talon Ireland came down to discuss a few things they learned from building Unite in Silverlight on Windows Phone 7. They go over: - Pros/cons of silverlight vs. xna for building simple games - Dealing with the back button and tombstoning in games Link...

Creating prototypes that convey what the application should present, how it should respond to suer events, and the general flow of an application is made a whole lot easier with Sketchflow. Janet Perez joins John for a 2 part series on using Sketchflow to creat rich interactive protttypes using...

Microsoft has released .NET Framework 4.0. This framework supports new Windows XP, Vista and 7 applications based on .NET 4.0. Download here: Download Confirmation Below is taken from the .Net 4.0 page: Microsoft .NET Framework 4 If your download does not start after 30 seconds, click...

Note to Microsoft Developers Why on Earth do you have to make such a dogs dinner of essentially a decent application. I'm talking about the Windows Media Center. Most TV tuner cards sold these days have a Composite Video input as well as Antenna / cable input. However when you set up the...

I wonder if anyone tried this with the new task of win 7 1. open 2 windows of firefox/internet explorer 2. open another 2 documents of word 3. minimize all of them now, how do we get to the first opened firefox window? or any of the word document? i have to move the cursor to the firefox icon...