Rob Miles JumpStart Training on Windows Phone 7

Yesterday, I had the privilege to watch a bit of the Jumpstart training on Windows Phone 7 with Rob Miles and Andy Wigley after work, even though it was two hours,.

I did gets some great tips on creating great applications especially on advice when creating a “light version” of an application rather than the trail mode as it entices them to purchase the full application more via a link rather than being put off by the word “trial” with its limited features that it imposes.

Other tips were to make full use of the application submissions as a dedicated app published reviewer from Microsoft reviews and takes note of if the application is deemed worthy to be published, so only 100 application attempts for publishing are free, after you need to pay for publishing your app, this is for the free version of your application that is.

Here is some screenshots made from the online event.

JQuery Mobile Tips #3

Here are some more JQuery Mobile Tips I have found today.

For textual updates on your JQuery Mobile Dialog box you want to make, it is best to do a <p> update on a text in the javascript in your ascx or aspx page for the content of your JQuery Mobile dialog page. For example: -

<% Html.BeginForm() %>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    $("#selectBox").bind('change', function (e) {
        var str = "";
        $("select option:selected").each(function () {
            if ($.jStorage.storageAvailable()) {
                $.jStorage.set('SelectedValue', $(this).val());
                $('#setText').text("You have selected: " + $(this).text() + ". ");
            }
        });
        e.preventDefault();
    });
</script>
<!-- Form content goes here -->
            <%= Html.DropDownList("selectBox")%>
<% Html.EndForm() %>

<p id="setText"></p>

As you can see here, I want to change the <p> tag with ID setText with the selected list box value you have selected from ID selectBox, abnd the results are far quicker than placing it in the .js file you added in the header in the Master Page, it is almost instantaneous, this is to improve performance loading issues. Hope that helps!

Windows Phone Training with Andy Wigley and Rob Miles

Just to let you know there is online training for Windows Phone 7 courtesy of Andy Wigley from Appa Mundi and Rob Miles from The University Of Hull, which is based mainly on the new features of Mango (Windows Phone 7.1) including relevant topics like Multi-tasking, Application Data Storage with Database CE, and Windows Azure.

Day One — August 23, 2011 | 8am-4pm PDT | Live online training

• Building Windows Phone Apps with Visual Studio 2010

• Silverlight on Windows Phone – Introduction

• Silverlight on Windows Phone – Advanced

• Using Expression to Build Windows Phone Interfaces

• Windows Phone Fast Application Switching

• Windows Phone Multi-tasking & Background Tasks

• Using Windows Phone Resources (Bing Maps, Camera, etc.)

Day Two — August 24, 2011 | 8am-4pm PDT | Live online training
• Application Data Storage on Windows Phone

• Using Networks with Windows Phone

• Windows Azure and Windows Phone
• Notifications on Windows Phone

• XNA for Windows Phone

• Selling a Windows Phone Application

What’s a “Jump Start” Course? | Training specifically designed for experienced developers and technologists whose jobs demand they know how to best leverage new, emerging Microsoft technologies. These advanced courses assume a certain level of expertise and domain knowledge, so they move quickly and cover topics in a fashion that enables teams to effectively map new skills to real-world situations.

Here is the sign up link https://www.eventbuilder.com/microsoft/event_desc.asp?p_event=m58m12c5