Ricky Tan's blog
Tips and tricks for developing Windows Phone 7 Applications
Windows Phone Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Game using Sockets in XNA
One of the new features for the app platform in Windows Phone Mango is TCP and UDP Sockets. In this...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 06/15/2011
Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7
Today, the free ebook, Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold, was announced available for...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 10/28/2010
Final Windows Phone Developer Tools Releasing Sept 16
Today, it was announced on the Windows Phone blog that the final version of the Windows Phone...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/23/2010
MediaElement, MediaPlayerLauncher and ApplicationBar in Windows Phone
Today, I'll write about creating a simple app that plays media using the MediaElement control, uses...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/20/2010
Launchers and Choosers for Windows Phone
Launchers and Choosers are the set of APIs that allow applications indirect access to phone...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/19/2010
Downloading Images and Indeterminate ProgressBar in Windows Phone
The ProgressBar control in Windows Phone today looks beautiful in indeterminate mode, with the...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/18/2010
Windows Phone Applications - Map, Pivot and Panorama controls
Today, I'll write about three new controls in Windows Phone Applications - the Map, Pivot and...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/17/2010
Windows Phone Applications - Gestures
Unlike desktop applications which use a keyboard and mouse, Windows Phone applications use touch...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/16/2010
Windows Phone Applications: Timing using DispatcherTimer
Applications may want to performs actions with certain timing, or tick intervals. One example is a...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/13/2010
Windows Phone Application Model: Navigation and Saving State
Continuing from yesterday's introduction to Silverlight for Windows Phone 7, today I'll be writing...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/12/2010
Silverlight for Windows Phone 7
The NDA on Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 has been lifted for a few months now, but I've been too...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/11/2010
Having trouble deleting files? Try this
If you're just upgraded to Windows 7, you may notice that the old system files are still on your...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 12/02/2009
Silverlight 3 Released and Introduction to DataForm
Silverlight 3 has been officially released last Friday. ScottGu's blog and Silverlight.net have the...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 07/13/2009
MIX09 and Silverlight 3 Beta
Yesterday was the first day of MIX09, where Silverlight 3 Beta was unveiled. The keynote and other...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 03/19/2009
Silverlight Futures Sneak Peek: Building Business Focused Applications
With the launch of Silverlight 2, which offers .NET support, C#, VB, LINQ, multithreading, WCF...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 10/31/2008
Silverlight 2 Beta1
This morning, Scott Guthrie has posted a First Look at Silverlight 2, so I can break the silence on...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 02/22/2008
Silverlight and Software-plus-Services
There are a lot of changes going on with Acropolis, with all the feedback received publicly and...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 09/07/2007
Extending the Acropolis Notepad sample with a Web Browser View
I've just posted on the Acropolis Team Blog about how easy it is to create additional views with...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 06/12/2007
Acropolis Buzz
Thanks to everyone that took a look! I'm very excited about the buzz that's going on.
Author: Ricky_T Date: 06/05/2007
Acropolis CTP1 released!
I'm extremely happy to say that the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft .NET...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 06/04/2007
Acropolis at TechEd 2007
I've been keeping track of some discussions about Acropolis, and I'm happy to say that there will be...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 05/23/2007
Team Foundation Server
I just can't wait for the Acropolis CTP so I can blog about the exciting new Acropolis rich client...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 01/25/2007
Official Product Launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007
Recently I haven't had much to blog about because of non-disclosure regarding the new Acropolis...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 11/30/2006
Mini-Lab
These past two weeks I've been working on setting up the Mini-Lab for the Smart Client project I'm...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 11/13/2006
WPF Video
I'm not able to post my sample here in this blog. But here is an awesome video that shows what WPF...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 10/23/2006
WPF Crossbow Sample
I’ve just finished creating a WPF sample application that uses Crossbow to host a DataGridView,...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 10/19/2006
eLearning clinics for .NET FX 3.0 (WPF, WF and WCF) are live and FREE for a limited time!
A good buddy from college days knows how excited I am about WPF, and he (being a .NET developer)...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 10/11/2006
Application.DoEvents
While doing the Vista Test Pass, I noticed a lot of timing and synchronization issues in the tests,...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 09/29/2006
PM, SDE and SDET
It's been a fast week, working on the Vista Test Pass. I was browsing through today's blogs when I...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 09/29/2006
Microsoft Annual Company Meeting
Yesterday was my first Microsoft Annual Company Meeting, and it just blew my mind. It was unlike any...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 09/22/2006
Windows Vista RC1 is available for your download
The title says it all. Download it here:...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 09/07/2006
IronPython 1.0 has been released
IronPython 1.0 has been released yesterday! I fondly remember using Python when I was in college and...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 09/06/2006
.NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX) Release Candidate is out!
Today is Friday before the long Labor Day weekend, and I wondering what to write. It's not for lack...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 09/01/2006
Joel on Software
I'm still all down on the Vista Test Pass this past week, to get through the test automation...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/21/2006
Crossbow and Vista News
The Crossbow test automation was run on WTT by the Avalon team on the latest build of Avalon, and...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 08/04/2006
TechFair 2006
I just read an interesting story in chapter 4 of the book "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 07/25/2006
Acropolis
I changed the time zone in my profile to Pacific Time, which is the time here in Redmond,...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 07/21/2006
What is Crossbow?
Among my work here at Microsoft is servicing the now-complete Crossbow Runtime, to make sure there...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 07/20/2006
Introduction
Hi! This is my first blog here on MSDN, so I thought it should be an intro. My name is Ricky Tan,...
Author: Ricky_T Date: 07/19/2006