Alex Sorokoletov

Great time to be Windows Phone 7 Developer!

Posted by Alex | Filed under MIX, silverlight, wp7

Glad I have time to share my feelings about Keynote, Day 2 at #MIX11
Main things that were presented – Windows Phone 7 Mango update, Kinect and Silverlight 5.
I was inspired mostly by WP7 Mango and Kinect, let me explain why.
Here are topics on Mango update I’m excited:
Opportunities
More countries to develop (+8), more contries to sell [...]

Tags: MIX, mix11, silverlight, Windows Phone 7, wp7

Read more | Comments (3) | April 13, 2011

Silverlight – ‘Save Image as’ behavior

Posted by Alex | Filed under silverlight

I was just thinking why Silverlight doesn’t allow saving some parts of UI (even just simple images) as images.

Tags: C#, development, Extension Method, silverlight, silverlight 4, Tips

Read more | Comments (1) | March 29, 2011

Итак… МЫ ПОБЕДИЛИ!

Posted by Alex | Filed under All, EcoContest, MIX, silverlight

Друзья, я безмерно благодарен вам за вашу поддержку!!!
http://contest.silverlightshow.net/Gallery.aspx
В данный момент думаю как же отпраздновать сие прекраснейшее событие!
Урааа!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read more | Comments (8) | March 11, 2011

WP7 Turnstile and Tilt effects

Posted by Alex | Filed under silverlight, wp7

For our Marketplace price drop application we decided to use native Windows Phone 7 UI approach with tiles and effects. You can see this effect when you click any tile on homepage of your WP7 device or in emulator (so called tilt effect).

Tags: development, silverlight, wp7, wp7dev

Read more | Comments (3) | February 17, 2011