Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – Creating a simple notes app with Silverlight Part 3
This is part 3 in a 3 part tutorial for creating a notes application using Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. The previous articles can be read here
Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – Creating a simple notes app with Silverlight Part 1
Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – Creating a simple notes app with Silverlight Part 2
Currently our application can display a list of notes, and create and save a new note. The last piece of the puzzle is to allow the user to delete an existing note. To accomplish this all we really need to do is add an application bar button to the details page, remove it from the working items list, and save it to isolated storage.
- Add the appbar.save.rest.png image in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.0\Icons to the Images folder in the project, and set it’s ‘Build Action’ to Content’, and it’s ‘Copy to Output Directory’ proerpty to ‘Copy if newer’.
Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – Creating a simple notes app with Silverlight Part 2
This is part 2 in a 3 part tutorial for creating a notes application using Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. The other articles can be read here
Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – Creating a simple notes app with Silverlight Part 1
Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – Creating a simple notes app with Silverlight Part 3
In part one of the tutorial we created the project, added a new Note class to serve as our model, and added a StorageHelper class to help us manage IsolatedStorage. The next step is to add support for adding a note to the app. We’ll keep it simple and just use a button on the main page’s application bar to add a note. When a user clicks the add note button on the main page, a new Windows Phone 7 page will load, which will enable the user to enter a note title and note text. They’ll also be able to save the note, or cancel the save, which will return them to the main page.
Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – Creating a simple notes app with Silverlight Part 1
This is part 1 in a 3 part tutorial for creating a notes application using Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. The other articles can be read here
Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – Creating a simple notes app with Silverlight Part 2
Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – Creating a simple notes app with Silverlight Part 3
Admittedly a bouncing ball on Windows Phone 7 isn’t all that useful, so I decided to create a sample application that could do a little more than draw a ball or say ‘hello world’. Ideally I wanted to work with some of the core concepts on the phone, such as lists, navigation and the application bar. Additionally I wanted a Windows Phone 7 app that persisted it’s data, which meant working with Isolated Storage. Obviously this calls for a note-taking app…after all who doesn’t love taking notes? Notes are only second to bouncing balls in my book.
To keep the scope of the app small and focused, I wanted the note app to do only the following
- View a list of notes
- Add a note
- Delete a note
Windows Phone 7 – List of Tutorials and Resources
Following up on yesterday’s post on Windows Phone 7 development, here’s a few of the tutorials and guides I’ve been looking at the past few days. There’s a lot of info to digest so I’ll be adding to this post as I come across more resoucres.
Tutorials and Samples
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Scott Guthrie’s Tutorial
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/03/18/building-a-windows-phone-7-twitter-application-using-silverlight.aspx -
Introduction to Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – Creating a list application
http://10rem.net/blog/2010/03/15/building-your-first-silverlight-for-windows-phone-application -
Introduction to XNA
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/windows/introduction-to-xna-on-windows-phone-7/ -
Channel 9 Developer Training Kit
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/ -
Code Samples for Windows Phone
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431744(VS.92).aspx -
Charles Petzold’s Free ebook
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/03/15/free-ebook-programming-windows-phone-7-series-draft-preview.aspx
Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight – Getting started with a Bouncing Ball
The beta of the developer tools for Windows Phone 7 was released last week. I was curious to see how different/easy it was to develop for this platform so I decided to convert my old SL 3 bouncing ball app, done AGES ago, to Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7. The process was pretty painless and even allowed me to add a few features:
1. Install the tools from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8496c2a-54d9-4b11-9491-a1bfaf32f2e3&displaylang=en if you haven’t already
2. Create a new Windows Phone Application (from templaes: Visual C# – Silverlight for Windows Phone – Windows Phone Application)