WCF web api + developer APi keys
I found myself with the requirement of needing custom authorization for a rest-style web API. The requirements would be something along the lines of Netflix,...
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wp7 – custom control project template
I couldn’t locate a Visual Studio project template for creating a windows phone 7 custom control library. So….I decided to make one. It is pretty straight-fo...
wp7 CollectionViewSource – sorting a listbox
A nice and flexible way to introduce filtering and sorting on a view model data collection is to use a CollectionViewSource. Here’s a quick example: ...
wp7 record your own accelerometer data for testing
In the recent Mango developer tools for Windows Phone the device emulator has been updated to include an accelerometer simulation screen. Thi...
wp7 pathlistbox
Since the new Mango developer tools were just released I wanted to write a quick post on PathListBox since I have been looking for an excuse to give it a try...
kinect drums
Whilst exploring the possibilities opened by the Kinect device I made a demo using the OpenNI framework http://www.openni.org/ with PrimeSense NITE component...
OpenNI + Kinect (getting set up on Windows)
I have recently been hacking around with a kinect camera + OpenNI + PrimeSense NITE components and initially it was quite challenging to get t...
WP7 UserControls
by Peter Daukintis Since silverlight 2 we have had the concept of the UserControl which provides a simple way to compose a re-usable part of our user interfa...