Author Archives: domagoj
I am a new Silverlight MVP!
I’m happy and proud to announce that I’ve been awarded Silverlight MVP status yesterday. The nomination process was quite challenging and before anything else I want to thank everybody who helped me in any way, including nomination, evaluation, recommendation and support of any kind, including moral. For those of you who don’t know, MVP […]
Physics in Silverlight
Few days ago I’ve stumbled upon a Farseer physics engine for Silverlight and XNA. It looks very promising, but I didn’t get time to play with it (yet). The library itself deserves a post (I’ll probably write one in the future), but this time I want to write about another library, helper library based on […]
Mobility Day drawing apps – Silverlight to WP7
Last week I attended a (great) conference Mobility Day and organizers asked me to build a small Silverlight application for prize giveaway at the end of the day. Every participant had a number at the back of their ID card and if the wheel stopped at your number, the prize was yours. Application itself is […]
My new project – TwBirthday.com
After successful Bing-Vs-Google.com that compares search results from Bing and Google side by side, and very popular WallOfSilver.net, a Twitter wall used on many conferences and events around the world, few day ago I’ve launched another project called TwBirthday. The basic idea is very simple – if you enter your Twitter username, you’ll find out […]
O Silverlightu na Web User Group
[English summary: announcing my talk about Silverlight on Web User Group in Zagreb, Croatia] Nakon cijele sezone Web UG i sedam vrlo uspješnih sastanaka, vrijeme je bilo da se i ja pojavim u ulozi predavača. Nekako sam taj svoj nastup čuvao u nadi da će kad-tad trebati zakrpati kakvu rupu jer neće biti interesa, no […]
Try Windows Phone 7 on your computer using an emulator – step-by-step
It is not like you have a real device in your hand, but you can get some look and feel of Windows Phone using an emulator. If you have touchscreen monitor, your experience will be much better, but that’s not a requirement. You don’t need anything else installed on your system, not even Visual Studio […]
How to open application (XAP) in Windows Phone 7 Emulator without Visual Studio running and/or source files?
You’ve developed your first Windows Phone 7 application and you want to share it with your friends or colleagues? Just follow this simple steps: Copy all files from “BinRelease” folder of your project. Move it to target machine. Have the Windows Phone 7 SDK installed on target machine (comes with Developer Tools) Open “XapDeploy.exe” in […]
Circular Progress Bar in Silverlight
In one project I’m working on for a few months now I got the request to show progress bar in the form of circle – empty circle would mean 0%, and filled circle stands for 100%. It seemed like and interesting challenge, so I think I’ve found the simplest solution to the problem. Let’s build […]
First season of Web User Group
Web User Group is the youngest user group in Croatian MS Community. I’ve founded it in December 2009 with support of Microsoft Croatia. Meetings are scheduled on the third Thursday of each month (except during the summer, in July and August). Web User Group covers wide range of topics in the web-development area, including design, […]
WordPress on SQL Server and SQL Azure
Although I don’t use WordPress on my blog, I find very interesting that now it can store data in SQL Server database, either free SQL Server Express or some advanced version. PHP is still a requirement (I’m pretty sure that this will not change), but now you don’t have to install MySQL database on Windows […]
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