Nick Randolph
Nick is a software architect and developer with experience across a range of technologies, and has a particular interest in the future of rich client and mobile device applications. Nick is a speaker, author, a Microsoft MVP and owner of Built To Roam.
Nick Randolph
In the next couple of posts we’re going to go on a bit of a tangent and discuss how you can connect your Windows Phone application to the cloud. Whilst a lot of these concepts can be applied to... Read More
The last couple of sites that I want to cover in this series on authentication from your Windows Phone application are YouTube and FourSquare . The former uses OAuth 1, whilst the latter uses OAuth... Read More
The combination of Visual Studio and Expression Blend makes designing and developing Windows Phone applications relatively simple. However, it also makes it easy to use the standard controls without... Read More
The next cab off the authentication rank is Flickr . In the preceding posts you’ll have already seen a couple of implementations of OAuth 1. Unfortunately whilst Flickr claims that they implement... Read More
So far you’ve seen samples for authenticating and working with Facebook , Twitter and Live Id , covering OAuth 1 and 2. In this post you’ll see how easily we can take the existing code and get... Read More
In the two previous posts in this series Facebook in a Windows Phone 7 App and Using Windows Live ID in a Windows Phone App you saw how to use “OAuth 2” to authenticate using Facebook and... Read More
You might be surprised to learn that despite the close integration of Windows Live ID and Windows Phone there is no way to make use of the existing Windows Live ID credentials within a third party... Read More
In my previous post you saw how to navigate forward to a new page and then back either via the hardware back button or by calling the GoBack method. Quite often you’ll want to pass some data... Read More
What’s interesting about the development platform for Windows Phone is that it is based on Silverlight, which, as most of us are aware, was first and foremost a web technology. As such Silverlight... Read More
So far we’ve looked at the importance of notifications on the Windows Phone platform along with the different types of notifications that are available to your application. In this post we’re... Read More
In my previous posts I’ve referred to the notification system that comes with Windows Phone, specifically in reference to updating the Live Tiles on the Start screen. We’re going to jump in and... Read More
In my previous post I discussed the importance of the Start screen and Live Tiles on the Windows Phone 7 platform. Applications that have been ported across from other smartphone platforms Windows... Read More
I often get asked to comment on “why Windows Phone 7” and it’s taken me a long time to put together a response to this question that I’m happy with. If you look at the major smartphone... Read More
