Jonas Stawski

Today I will be presenting my famous Programming Web for Beginners at the Weston Learning Group. Programming Web is a combination of Programming Web 101 and 201, two sessions I usually give at Code Camps and user groups across the south east. This se... [More]

I’ve written previously about my lessons learned of the Windows Phone 7 ad control and it appears as I haven’t learned my lesson yet. About a month ago Champions League Tracker hit the Marketplaceand it appears to be very successful: from 11/28/2011 ... [More]

I've censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet--a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit: http://american... [More]

You can use the SmsComposeTask to create an SMS with Windows Phone. As the code below shows, it is very easy to do. 1: <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0"> 2: <Button Content="Number Only" Height="72... [More]

If you are working in an application that has been converted from WP7 to WP7.1 (Mango) and are trying to query the contacts like the code below you might get a helpless exception of type System.Exception with the message “Exception”, no InnerExceptio... [More]

A new feature of Mango (WP 7.5) is fast app switching, a much needed feature, which every developer should implement in their apps. Before mango, every time the application was deactivated the developer had to maintain state and restore it once the a... [More]

I’m loving my Mango update on Windows Phone 7. With many new features incorporated into the phone there is one that I was really looking forward to: The multiple language soft keyboard. I’m used to having a hard keyboard on my phones and therefore I ... [More]

I recently attended the BUILD Windows conference in Aneheim, CA. There Microsoft unveiled the next generation of it’s OS: Windows 8. Here’s a Spanish interview I did with Seth Juarez from Devexpress about Windows 8. Enjoy! http://tv.devexpress.com/#... [More]

ASP.NET 2.0 brought a new feature called Expression Builder, which allows you to assign dynamic values to a control’s property. The syntax is very similar to the well known <%= value %> and <%# bind(“property”) %>: <%$ expression %>... [More]

As an MVP we get a free Visual Studio Ultimate MSDN Subscription and with it a nice offer for Windows Azure. Since offers change often and some links may be broken let me copy the offer here: Current offer* Updated Offer a... [More]