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Episode #191: WP7: Learning to read/write to isolated storage

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to read and write data to Isolated Storage for Silverlight on the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Since the WP7 platform does not have a built in RDMS system you must utilized Isolated Storage in order to persist data between runs. We will look at how to both read and write data using 2 different techniques in this episode.

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Episode #190: Rake: Learning to use Rake With MSBuild

Derik Whittaker — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Amir Baylko

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use Rake in order to help refactor your MSBuild Scripts.

We will use Rake in order to allow you to build out smaller targets in MSBuild as well as to run external features which are supported by Rake.

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Episode #189: Entity Framework: Making changes to the T4 Templates

Derik Whittaker — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Sams Publishing Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how Entity Framework uses T4 Templates (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) when building out the entity model.

We will first learn how EF is using the templates, we will then learn how to view and access these templates and finally we will take a look at how to modify these templates to meet your own specific needs.

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Episode #188: WP7: Learning how to detect Themes

Derik Whittaker — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:24:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how the phone uses themes and styles.

We will focus on how to determine which theme is being used as well as learning how to swap out our resource files which are used by our application based on the active theme. Knowing which theme is in use will allow your application to better conform to either the light or dark user experience.

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Episode #187: WP7: Writing and Reading from Isolated Storage

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at store data in Isolated Storage on the phone

Storing data in Isolated Storage on the phone is critical because there is no sql database which can run on the phone at this point. In this episode we will look at how we can store and retrieve data to storage on the phone.

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Episode #186: Entity Framework: Intro to Database First Design

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Sams Publishing Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use the Entity Framework via its database first design concepts.

When building out an application which is based off of the Entity framework you have multiple options, you can either build your model off of your existing database or build your database of your existing model. This episode will explore how you start with your existing database and build your entity model.

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Episode #185: WP7: Learning how to handle Tombstoning

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to handle tombstoning (when your application is not longer in focus, but is not shut down yet) in your WP7 application.

When building out a WP7 application it is critical that your application can handle Tombstoning and rebuild itself as needed. This is to allow the user to have their work flow interrupted by an action, but still gives them the ability to back into your app and resume from there last usage point. In fact if you fail to take Tombstoning into account your application will fail certification.

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Episode #184: Entity Framework: Intro to Model First Design

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Sams Publishing Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use the Entity Framework via its model first design concepts.

When building out an application which is based off of the Entity framwork you have multiple options, you can either build your model off of your existing database or build your database of your existing model. This episode will explore how you start with your entity model and build out your database.

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Episode #183: Load Testing WCF Services w/ VS2010

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how you can use Visual Studio 2010 to perform load testing on your WCF services

When building out any WCF services it is very important to understand how they will handle under load and stress. You will want know that your services will respond well under peak load in order to allow your users to have a solid experiance. With VS2010 Ultimate there are tools built in which will give you this ability.

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Episode #182: Using Property/Method Exports in MEF

Derik Whittaker — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Sams Publishing Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how you can use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) to export either properties or methods on an object.

Having the ability to export only certian properties or methods via MEF provides you another great way to extend your application. You can now have different exports for each use case and you do not need to export the entire class, only parts of that class.

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Episode #181: Using Metadata in your MEF Exports

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Sams Publishing Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how you can use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) to expose metadata attributes in your exports.

Having the ability to expose metadata will give you the ability to make decisions around your exports with this metadata.

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Episode #180: Handling System Errors in MVC

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to perform error handling in Asp.Net MVC.

We will focus on how you can build your MVC application to be able to handle 404 (file not found) and 500 errors (internal server error).

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Episode #179: Parallel Programming w/ Task Parallel Library

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how we can simplify parallel programming by using the Task Parallel Library which is part of .Net 4.0

We will take a look at how to move your code away from for and foreach and towards Parallel.For and Parallel.Foreach. These new methods allow you to parallelize your loops w/ little effort, but with large gains.

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Episode #178: Going Out Of Browser w/ Silverlight

Derik Whittaker — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how we can use the take our in-browser silverlight application and allow it to run Out of Browser (OOB).

We will take a look at how we can let silverlight perform the lifting as well as how we can provide coding to create the OOB application.

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Episode #177: Data Validation w/ MVC2

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how we can use the built-in features in MVC v2 to simplify data validation.

We will take a look at how we can use data annoations to validate both client side data submission (via javascript) and server side validation.

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