If you're used to ListBox or LongListSelector, find out how the GridView and ListView controls for Windows Phone 8.1 can do it better.
- By Nick Randolph
- 07/07/2014
Learn how the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK, coupled with Visual Studio, provides the necessary tools to debug, test, polish and publish your application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/02/2014
It may look like a simple point upgrade, but it isn't. Examine more closely, and you'll see why the latest iteration of Windows Phone is a big deal.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/02/2014
Nick Randolph demonstrates two techniques for using Visual States to change the layout of a Windows Phone User Control.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/31/2014
Nick Randolph takes MvvmCross for a spin and shows how quickly you can build an application for Windows Phone and other mobile platforms.
- By Nick Randolph
- 02/25/2014
Nick Randolph walks through adding analytics to your Windows Phone application using Application Insights for Visual Studio Online.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/13/2014
Nick Randolph connects a Windows Phone application to the cloud to save and retrieve data, then uses a local SQLite database to cache data for offline use.
- By Nick Randolph
- 12/03/2013
From project templates to themes to testing to authentication and much more, Nick Randolph looks at some of the tools, technologies and techniques you'll need if you want to become a professional Windows Phone developer.
- By Nick Randolph
- 10/07/2013
How to manage visual states, and perform navigation and testing of your view models from within a Windows Phone PCL.
- By Nick Randolph
- 09/11/2013
Windows Phone tooling is more advanced than that for Windows 8. But savvy developers can use that to their advantage when building Windows Store apps.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/12/2013
Nick Randolph pulls apart the Windows Phone ToggleButton to help you adapt it to the look of your application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 02/15/2013
Although Windows 8 and Windows Phone share the same core, building an app for both isn't as easy as you might think.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/05/2013
Nick Randolph dissects Windows Phone 8 as a platform for application and enterprise developers.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/04/2013
How to use the new Windows Phone 8 SDK to build applications across both Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/30/2012
Nick Randolph looks at the tools that make up the new Windows Phone 8 SDK.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/28/2012
Use the LongListSelector control to conveniently display large amounts of data in your mobile apps.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/01/2012
Data-binding parameters that you can use when wiring up the contents of your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 10/29/2012
The Converter attribute can be added to the binding syntax to augment the data at the point it's data bound.
- By Nick Randolph
- 10/16/2012
Data binding is central to Windows Phone Development. Here's a refresher for old pros, and an introduction for newbies.
- By Nick Randolph
- 10/02/2012
Set up and use create a simple Windows Phone program that connects to Azure Mobile Services.
- By Nick Randolph
- 09/24/2012
Adding visual states and animation to your Listboxes can juice up your Windows Phone app.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/27/2012
How to use a template selector to dynamically select which item template to use for each list item.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/06/2012
Learn how to automate the WebBrowser control to display and customize the way Web content appears in your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/01/2012
How to disable Expression Blend design time data at runtime.
- By Nick Randolph
- 07/23/2012
In part one of this series, Nick Randolph discusses the use of Expression Blend design-time data in Windows Phone applications.
- By Nick Randolph
- 07/12/2012