Saturday, October 9, 2010

New Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to make a Browser Application


In this 15 minute video I show you how to create a new WP7 application, add an ApplicationBar, add an ApplicationBarIconButton that when clicked loads a new Browser page.  I then show you how to add a TextBox, a Go Button and a WebBrowser control.  I then show you how to load whatever URL you type into the TextBox load into the WebBrowser control.
This could be considered Part 6 of the 5 part sereies on how to make a cool WP7 application, and you can certainly use it to build out your browser page that you created in the 5 part series; but I also wanted to make this application independent of that tutorial.  Meaning, this tutorial will still be relevant to you even if you have not taken the previous 5 part tutorial.  So, in summary this tutorial will be good for you if you have or have not watched the 5 part tutorial.

3 Comments for this entry

  • Proto-Bytes 
    Have you entered the “The Code Project” Win phone contest yet?
    @ProtoBytes
  • Christian 
    LOL, great tutorial… But 1 major comment… Was that an Iphone message notification going off during the video?
    Tsk Tsk…
    victor, I am trying to contact you if you would be interested in doing a book of tutorials just like this video with the concept of making WP7 applications using Blend… and getting the code ready for a developer… to get people over from the Flash / PSD / Illustrator world.
  • Victor 
    Proto, I have not entered the contest, been a little too busy at the moment.
    Christian, Uhh that was my wife’s iPhone you heard LOL
    Victor Gaudioso

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Friday, October 8, 2010

Part 5: New WP7/Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to Capture an image from the MenuItem Button using the CaptureCaptureTask


Hello All!
I have added a new 5 minute tutorial on how to use the CaptureCameraTask task to capture an image from clicking the MenuItem Button.  This is part 5 of this tutorial.  The other parts can be found here:
Part 4: Compose and send an email from a MenuItem: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bI
Part 3: Make a Phone call from a MenuItem: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bD
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) appliaction with an ApplicationBar complete with IconButtons and MenuItems: http://tinyurl.com/352fm4u
Here is the video for the new, Part 5 video tutorial: http://tinyurl.com/32lhmhv
Enjoy! Victor

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Part 4: New WP7/Silverlight Video Tutorial: Learn how to Compose and send an email from a MenuItem Button


Hello All!
This is Part 4 in the Windows Phone 7 / Silverilght series.  Parts 1-3 can be found here:
Part 3: Make a Phone call from a MenuItem: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bD
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) appliaction with an ApplicationBar completewith IconButtons and MenuItems: http://tinyurl.com/352fm4u
In this video I show you how to create and send an email from a MenuItemButton.  Enjoy!

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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.

3 Comments for this entry

  • Arnost Katolicky, doc. 
    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 
    Hello Arnost, if you would like to pay for shipping I will send you a complimentary copy of my latest book. Victor
  • Maryellen Maderios 
    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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