Best Practices for WP7 Execution Model - Silverlight

paulfo — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:42:25 GMT

With the refresh of the tools we see significant advances in the implementation of the Windows Phone 7 execution model. Developers of WP7 applications should take the time to read about the Execution Model and how it affects your application. This is critically important to ensure your users have the best experience.

A summary of the Execution Model Best Practices.

Yochay’s eloquent blog post explaining the Execution Model.

MSDN overview document for the Execution Model.

These documents currently discuss the execution model as it is implemented for Silverlight applications. Best practices for XNA games will follow, but differ only in elements of implementation.

Please go read – this is important to understand.

Building panoramas on Windows Phone 7

paulfo — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:39:57 GMT

The panorama style application is a powerful and compelling application design. At present there is not a released Silverlight control for knocking up a panorama but this can still be EASILY achieved with very little effort using for example Expression Blend.

As a colleague put it ‘stuff a horizontal StackPanel inside a ScrollViewer and call it done’. This will certainly give you a proto-type until our controls are released. Alternatively, there are richer demonstrations of how to build panoramas out there.

Here is a link list of blog posts that demonstrate different methods of building a panorama.

Amiee Gurl – Amiee provides two step by step tutorials for building panoramas using Blend. One with code, one without. She also provides the code download which works well.

Clarity Consulting - put out a pretty elegant panorama control, complete with parallax scrolling effects.

Codeplex project - The Windows Phone 7 controls project is a sample implementation of Silverlight controls for Windows Phone. At the moment, it implements 2 controls :
- Panorama : for creating "Panoramic style" applications
- Pivot : for creating "Tabbed style" applications

You can read more in the Windows Phone UI Design and Interaction Guide (direct link here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9713252), section titled “Panorama Application

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Best Practices for WP7 Execution Model - Silverlight

Building panoramas on Windows Phone 7