Jerry Nixon
Microsoft Developer Evangelist
Mango Tip: Awesome Marketplace Screenshots
Here’s a tool that makes your emulator’s start screen look less like an emulator and more like a...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/26/2012
PhoneGap fully supports Windows Phone
In addition to being able to leverage their HTML5 and Javascript skills to target Windows Phone,...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/26/2012
System Center’s Private Cloud
My colleague IT Pro Evangelist in California just posted a clear and exciting explanation of the...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/25/2012
Massively Scalable Azure
My colleague Developer Evangelist in Southern California, Bruno Terkaly, recently presented a...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/24/2012
5 Questions on Solid State
One of our Colorado Storage MVPs, and coordinator of the Windows Technology User Group, recently...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/23/2012
White Paper: Assessing the Windows 8 Development Platform
I love to see the great insights our partners are making: At the Build conference in September 2011,...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/23/2012
Does it still make sense to learn ASP.Net?
Wow, what a fascinating question! Scott Gutherie deals with that and other great questions during...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/23/2012
Windows Server 8 Storage Management
Windows Server 8 is introducing seriously big and awesome enhancements for the enterprise. As a...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/20/2012
Mango Sample: Delete Dramatically
In a previous post I walked through the five must-have animations for a Windows Phone application....
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/19/2012
Mango Sample: The ApplicationBar’s Secret Blend?
A Windows Phone application is made up of a frame and pages. The Pages are made up of XAML that...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/18/2012
Mango Sample: 3 Solutions to Formatting Problems
One of the most powerful aspects of XAML is it’s rich and dynamic support for data binding. MSDN:...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 01/10/2012
Mango Sample: Portable Assemblies
Windows Phone Applications are written in Silverlight (or XNA). Considerations for Silverlight...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 12/21/2011
Mango Sample: Resources Part 3: Sizes
This is part 3 in the Resource series. Part 1: Themes Part 2: Colors Part 3: Sizes Part 4: Styles...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 12/19/2011
Mango Sample: Resources Part 2: Colors
This is part 2 in the Resource series. Part 1: Themes Part 2: Colors Part 3: Sizes Part 4: Styles...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 12/19/2011
Mango Sample: Resources Part 1: Themes
This is part 3 in the Resource series. Part 1: Themes Part 2: Colors Part 3: Sizes Part 4: Styles...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 12/19/2011
Mango Sample: Accelerometer
I know what you’re thinking: “You are already sensitive to various orientations, how can you make my...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 12/13/2011
Mango Sample: Advertising
The Microsoft Advertising Pub Center will allow you to create two types of Advertisements. 1) 480x80...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 12/12/2011
Mango Sample: Icon Design
Let’s take a minute to walk without using Express Design to create a logo for your Windows Phone...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 12/12/2011
Mango Sample: Lock and Run
When a user is idle, their screen locks and your Windows Phone application is suspended. This might...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/28/2011
Mango Online Workshop (Next Week) – Databases
In this live session I will be stepping through the process to add a database your Windows Phone...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/28/2011
Mango Sample: Data Validation
Whoa! I am getting a lot of questions on data validation. This warrants an article. Of course, we...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/23/2011
Mango Sample: External Data
External Data? Sure; data doesn’t have to be local. Like, some applications are multi-targeted. They...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/21/2011
Mango Sample: OAuth2 & Live Id
Some Windows Phone applications will need to identify the user. Most Windows Phone users have a...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/21/2011
Mango Sample: Detect Theme
Writing Windows Phone applications is tricky when users switch between the light and dark phone...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/18/2011
Mango Sample: Async Work
There are lots of things that take a long time - a politician's apology, dance recitals, and...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/17/2011
Mango Samples: SQL Toolbox
In recent posts I discussed two ways to add a local database to your Windows Phone...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/16/2011
Mango Sample: Exit Application
In a WPF application you say App.Exit() and your application terminates. It’s not so simple in...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/12/2011
Mango Sample: Local Database Part 2:2
Storing Windows Phone application data is a pretty normal requirement. If you want it to persist...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/10/2011
Mango Sample: Local Database Part 1:2
Storing Windows Phone application data is a pretty normal requirement. If you want it to persist...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/10/2011
Mango Sample: Isolated Storage
Storing Windows Phone application data is a pretty normal requirement. If you want it to persist...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/09/2011
Mango Sample: Input Scope
Windows Phone has an on-screen keyboard. We call it the SIP (Software Input Panel). It appears when...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/09/2011
Mango Sample: Consume Odata
Odata is a standard method to expose data through a WCF service. Typical services have GetThis()...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/09/2011
Mango Sample: MVVM
The Model View View-Model pattern is intended for applications that have State, like a Silverlight...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/09/2011
Mango Sample: Chart Data
This article is about adding charts to Windows Phone applications. But I wanted to start by...
Author: jerry-nixon Date: 11/09/2011