Category Archives: windows-phone

Configuring TDD-style isolated tests for Windows Phone

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

This article describes the setup instructions for configuring an environment to run isolated unit tests that are intended to run quicky, easily and often to enable test driven development. For integration tests that access isolated storage, web services or phone … Continue reading →

Posted in unit-testing, windows-phone | Leave a comment

Writing asynchronous unit tests with Rx and the Silverlight Unit Testing Framework

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

The Reactive Extensions provide a great way for composing asynchronous actions, particularly on Windows Phone where IO operations are asynchronous-only. The Silverlight Unit Testing framework (including my CI-supporting port) supports asynchronous unit tests, but if you’ve attempted to use them … Continue reading →

Posted in Rx, unit-testing, windows-phone | 1 Comment

Practical support for custom light/dark theme resources on Windows Phone 7

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

Windows Phone 7′s dark/light themes, which allow the user to choose between white-on-black or black-on-white, expose default resource keys for your application to consume. However, since this support doesn’t extend to declaring your own light/dark resources, I thought I’d look … Continue reading →

Posted in windows-phone | 3 Comments