List of all posts archived on May 2010

Okay, it’s been 2 months since Windows Phone 7 first unveiled to public, and it has attracted lots of .NET developers all around the world to taste its fun development.

Saya yakin dari komunitas .NET Indonesia ini juga sudah banyak yang mulai mencoba bermain-main dengan barang baru ini. Hanya tinggal download dev-kit dan segala keperluannya, lalu buka Visual Studio 2010 / VS2010 for Windows Phone / Expression Blend 4 RC, tekan F5, voila.. Anda akan langsung diberi tampilan emulator yang hitam, kelam, dan super plain :D

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On yesterday’s Innovation Day 2010, me and my partner Kresna Dewantara (CTO Armanovus) were speaking about “Introduction to Developing Apps w/ Silverlight”, covering from the very beginning (history, basic XAML, what’s new in Silverlight 4, etc), to finally focusing on developing Windows Phone 7 application with Silverlight. We showed off some fun demo stuff including Foursquare for WP7, Pillbox, Twitter Search, Accelerometer look-a-like in WP7, some cool panoramic behaviour stuff, and Silverlight Multitouch (yes luckily I’m geared with TouchSmart TM-2 laptop! :)

At first, I was inspired by this post about Windows Phone Animation, it was simply 3 sliders and 1 image to demo 3D perspective transform feature by using “plane projection”. But reading that post kinda makes me think, “Why is this guy using so much code-behind while we can simply do DATA-BINDING directly from XAML?” Hmm… I just thought so because I don’t think I like coding too much

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