Thursday, October 7, 2010

Part 3: New WP7/Silverlight Video Tutorial: Learn how to Make a Phone call from a MenuItem Button


Hello All,
In this new 6 minute video tutorial I show you how to raise and handle a Click event from a MenuItem Button.  Then I show you how to use the Windows.Phone.Tasks to have your phone call a phone number. 
This is part 3.  Part 1 and two can be found here:
Part 2: Add new pages when the ApplicationBarIconButtons are clicked: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bp
Part 1: How to build a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) application with an ApplicationBar completewith IconButtons and MenuItems: http://tinyurl.com/352fm4u
Thanks, Victor

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Video of my two day Sharing in the Light Silverilght/Blend/Visual Studio Course in Dallas


hello All, as you probably know I held a two day training course in Dallas dubbed Sharing in the Light. During this course I taught 80-some students all about Silverlight, Blend, and Visual Studio. A friend and fellow MVP Shawn Weisfeld (@shawnweisfeld) recorded both my screen and me on stage for the entire two days. He was kind enough to post the entire two days worth of videos here: http://live.ineta.org/Presentation/Speaker/88
I have embded the first video here for your convenience:
You can also download all of the source code for all of the projects I showed how to build here:
I’d like to give a special thanks to Teresa Burger (@t_burger) for organizing the whole event.

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  • Arnost Katolicky, doc. 
    February 28th, 2011 on 11:45 pm
    I found on the web only 35 pages from the Victors latest book about BLEND 4. Unfortunatelly I could not get the full book to write a detailed review of the book for my weblog http://expression-studio-aka.akamonitor.cz. I like very much the approach and the style how the content is explayned. Step by step, with clever screenshots, etc. I am sure that the quality of the “rest”of the book is perfect as well. I must recommend the book for professionals and for all who – like me – are interested innew software. doc. Arnost Katolicky, Czech Republic, http://www.akamonitor.cz, doc.akavakamonitor.cz.
  • Victor 
    March 8th, 2011 on 9:27 pm
    Hello Arnost, if you would like to pay for shipping I will send you a complimentary copy of my latest book. Victor
  • Maryellen Maderios 
    February 8th, 2012 on 3:25 pm
    I hardly comment, however i did a few searching and wound up here Video of my two day Sharing in the Light Silverilght/Blend/Visual Studio Course in Dallas Victor Gaudioso's Silverlight Blog. And I actually do have 2 questions for you if you tend not to mind. Is it just me or does it give the impression like some of these remarks appear like they are coming from brain dead folks? :-P And, if you are posting at additional online social sites, I’d like to follow everything fresh you have to post. Could you make a list of every one of all your communal pages like your linkedin profile, Facebook page or twitter feed?

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Part 2: New WP7/Silverlight Video Tutorial: Learn how to load new pages from ApplicationBarIconButtons


Hello All,
This is part two of this video tutorial: 54. How to build a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) appliaction with an ApplicationBar complete with IconButtons and MenuItems:http://tinyurl.com/352fm4u 
In this tutorial I show you how to make the ApplicationBarIconButtons we created in part one load new pages.

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Part 1: New Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Create an ApplicationBar and Add IconButtons and MenuItems


Hello All,
In this short 5 minute video I show you how to create a Windows Phone 7  (WP7) applicationand then add an ApplicationBar complete with IconButtons and MenuItems.  In the next video in the series I will show how to make those buttons interactive.

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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch: Jump Start your Mobile Development – I will be holding Session 3!



 UPDATE: The event was AWESOME and my session went off without a hitch and people said they loved it! Watch Video here!
Hello All,
I am sure you have heard that Microsoft is releasing a new mobile phone operating system called Windows Phone 7.  Well, did you know that if you know how to develop in Silverlightusing Blend and Visual Studio then you already know how to develop Windows Phone 7Applications?  Well you do and Microsoft is holding a few awesome events to show you how.  And I will be presenting at one of those sessions!
I will be holding Session 3: Supercharge Your Windows Phone 7 Apps with Microsoft Silverlight at the Sept. 29-30 (FYI: my session is on the 29th) event in Orange County, CA!  In this session I am going to show how to build Windows Phone 7 applications with Silverlight.  More specifically I will show the following:
1. The Blend Integrated Development Environment: Panels, the Toolbar, Design v Animation views, the Timeline, built-in controls such as the ListBox and Button controls, Content controls such as the Grid and Canvas and much more;
2. How to take everything you have learned and build a WP7 application with a custom, reusable UserControl.
If you would like to attend this totally FREE and awesome two-day event in Orange County, CA you can do so here:
There are also Windows Phone 7 Launch Events in Mountain View and San Francisco; to read about and register for them, go here: http://tinyurl.com/2f56uos
Thanks and I hope to see you there!
Victor

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Friday, September 3, 2010

Sharing in the Light – I dive into Silverlight Development with Blend – Two day event in Dallas Sept. 25 & 26


Hello All,
I am participating in a two day event in Dallas on Sept. 25 & 26 where I teach an intense course on how to develop in Silverlight using Blend and Visual Studio.  Join me in this hands-on, lab style event where I show how to develop Silverlight applications using Blend and Visual Studio.
The basic outline for both days will contain the following:
  • Blend IDE
  • Objects and Timelines
  • Storyboards
  • Drawing
  • Event Handling
  • Sample Data
  • Data binding
  • Sketchflow
  • Debugging with VS 2010
  • Visual State Manager
  • Using reference assemblies
  • New Features of Silverlight 4
  • Webcam and COM API’s
You can expect to learn how to create appearing/disappearing navigation bars, how to use the Farseer Physics Engine to build Astroids and much much more!!
Go here to register for the event: http://sharingthelight.eventbrite.com/
I would like to thank:
Teresa  Burger @t_burger http://geekswithblogs.net/tburger/ for organizing the event;
@Improving http://improvingenterprises.com/ and  Shawn Weisfild @shawnweisfeldwww.shawnweisfeld.com for helping to create awareness about the event! 

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Style a Hyperlink Button


Hello All!
@bill44077 Tweeted me and asked me to show him how to change the color of a Hyperlink Button when the mouse is over it.  So, I rolled up my sleeves and created this short, 5 minute video that shows how to do exactly that.  First, I show how to change the default color from blue to pink.  Then I show how to create a new Style for the HyperlinkButton and then change the hover color to a dark blue for the text as well as the underline.  I do this by creating a brand new TextBlock that is TemplateBound to the Content property.  Take a look and you too will no longer have any questions regarding the Silverlight HyperLink Button!
Enjoy! Victor

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