Passing Data from One Screen to Another This post continues from How To Use iOS 5 Storyboard Part 1 and uses the same project, StoryboardSample. Right now we have a two view controllers in our storyboard. When a user clicks on the button, the screen navigates to the second controller. Now we want to pass [...]
I have been reading an early preview of iOS 5 Programming Cookbook and wanted to show a new feature called Storyboards. In previous versions of iOS, you would use navigation controllers to push and pop view controllers to be shown on the screen. Now in iOS 5, Apple believes this can be done easier with [...]
While working on a project, I had a requirement to display an image accompanied by text that wrapped around said image. I knew right away that TextBlocks were not going to help me there. I quickly set out to find something capable of flowing text; enter the FlowDocument. Most of the samples I found discussed [...]
Since I last rebuilt my development machine I haven’t had a need to even look at web development let alone Windows Azure. The last time I had “opportunity” to develop anything using Windows Azure was with version 1.3. At the time version 1.4 was still in beta and I couldn’t seem to successfully install it. [...]
I had been using the MASM32 SDK to get familiar with Microsoft Assembly. I thought I’d just share a couple basic things that helped me in the process. Using Compiled Resources The MASM editor that is installed from the SDK is the ‘Small Memory Footprint Editor Quick Editor’. Creating, compiling, linking and running MASM source [...]
In my latest project I was running into an issue where running my installed application on a test machine was crashing before it could even startup, but it ran perfectly when installed on my machine. I was almost to the point of taking the time to install Visual Studio 2010 on the test machine, when [...]
If you’re an early Visual Studio adopter like me you’ve probably gotten used to running into a similar problem every few years: upgrading your code. Although VS usually handles the job of converting files to work in the newer version, the big problem has usually been trying to go back to the old version. If [...]
I’ve been playing with the developer preview release of Windows 8 that we got from //BUILD/. Everyday, we find more and more “issues” that are either just straight up bugs, things that are not implemented yet, or maybe even issues that won’t be resolved because WinRT is “just different”. This one was especially “fun” to [...]
The Ultimate and Premium versions of Visual Studio 2010 include a new set of tools for creating automated tests that interact with application UI known as Coded UI Tests. One of the tools is a recorder that will generate the appropriate code for you as it monitors your interactions with your application. Although it is [...]
This post is a continuation off of this post on Up and Running with Git and Visual Studio, if you have no idea what Git is, or how to setup git and git-extensions on windows I recommend you start there. So you’ve installed git and git extensions, written a sweet hello world application, made some [...]