When I am working with XNA, I frequently found myself writing the same code in order to maintain lists of objects in memory and track free items that can be reinitialized to reduce garbage collection. Eventually I had enough of doing this and decided to implement a generic Pool class in C# that would take [...]
I have uploaded the slides and XNA demo project from my Windows Phone 7 presentation I gave at my University on Wednesday. You can download them here.
When using Silverlight, developers have no direct access to the file system on a user’s computer. However Silverlight does use isolated storage as a virtual file system to store data on machines providing the application has the correct file permissions to do so. Additionally, Windows Phone 7 uses isolated storage for saving data to the [...]
For a little while now I’ve had a bit of interest in the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern for Silverlight and WPF so I thought I would finally give it a go and see if I could get an understanding of how to use this pattern.