Async, where can I use it?
Nicholas Wolverson, November 7th, 2012
With the recent release of Windows 8 and VS 2012, you’ve probably heard of the bold move in the WinRT API (that is, the target platform for Windows Store apps) to only offer asynchronous versions of operations which take any significant time (ie 50ms+) – and the corresponding async/await feature in C#5 and VB11. That’s [...]
Mapping in WPF, Silverlight and WP7
Nicholas Wolverson, May 2nd, 2012
In this article I show a simple example of integrating Bing and Google mapping into in WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone applications. I was inspired to investigate how easy it is to get up and running with maps on these platforms when I saw how similar the Bing APIs are in each case. While Google [...]
Plotting user functions with Visiblox
Nicholas Wolverson, October 10th, 2011
Some time ago I wrote about plotting mathematical functions with Visiblox Charts, and Jesse responded by showing how to wrap a function in a data series to feed into a chart. I’m going to show how to take this idea a bit further, generating additional data on interaction, and allowing the user to specify a [...]
Mathematical-style plots: Retemplating Visiblox Charts
Nicholas Wolverson, June 13th, 2011
This post demonstrates how to re-template a Visiblox Chart to render data with mathematical-style “on-chart” axes.