I have an odd love of text editors, though considering I love to code perhaps it’s not that odd at all. I’ve gone through quite a few over the years, I was a huge TextPad fan for a long time and I still pull it up now and then but then I saw a bunch of screen shots of TextMate on Mac and realized the bar had been reset.
I’m using the excellent REST library RestSharp for all my REST and OAuth calls. I’m also using the amazing data caching framework AgFx written by Shawn Burke which handles caching your web requests, something that goes from a nice to have to critical when writing high performance Windows Phone apps.
I love me to some LINQ, especially some LINQ to XML (otherwise known as XLinq) for parsing meaty XML files into objects. Anywhere there is XML parsing going on in my app you’ll see code similar to this:
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I’m currently working on a GoodReads client for Windows Phone and while I’ve written a ton of phone code for various demos, API smoke testing, targeted “how do I” questions, etc. it’s an entirely different beast to write an application end-to-end. The technical questions are often the easiest and if you’ve been coding for more than a few years (or months, you rockstar you) the problems and questions that keep you up at night shift from technical (“how do I save an image to the phone?
In a little app I’m working on to exercise some new Mango features I needed to create the message “bubble” and oddly enough didn’t stumble across any samples I could easily use even though a large number of apps have recreated this style, most likely because it’s so easy to do.