John Baird
CODE Author
John Baird is the founder of Xamlware, a professional consulting firm specializing in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 development. John has 30 years of experience designing, coding, and implementing software solutions.
John co-founded the Northern Delaware .Net Users group, is heavily involved in the local .Net communities, and travels extensively presenting to user groups, code camps and special interest groups. John is also a three-time recipient of Microsoft’s MVP award and is one of the first MVPs for Windows Phone 7.
Contact Information:
- Email: jbaird@ordertek.com
- Phone: 610-683-8759
Articles Authored
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Getting Started with Windows Mobile Development
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - July/August
In today’s world of fast food, fast cars, and instant gratification, people expect to be in touch at all times.We have become conditioned to staying in touch with businesses, friends, and families. Because of this desire for instant data, we have the Internet, cell phones, Wi-Fi, MP3 players, and DVD players. As the equipment needed to drive this thirst has become smaller and smaller, we find ourselves looking for portable replacements for our bulky desktop computers.
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Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Development
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - January/February
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Windows Phone 7 Development Using MVVM and Unit Testing
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2012 - January/February
As readers of this magazine, you are all experts at certain facets of software development, be it for the desktop, the web, SQL Server and now mobile platforms. Mobile programming was a fairly arcane development arena up until the recent announcement of Windows Phone 7 (WP7). Prior to WP7, you had to become intimately familiar with the myriad platforms and form factors available and write your programs to each of those phones. With the advent of WP7, Microsoft is now controlling the hardware capabilities of the phone making it much easier to develop for these platforms. You can now also leverage existing skills in Silverlight and XNA to write your apps. But the question always remains: how do I get started and what is the best way to write for the new WP7? In a previous article, <i>CODE Magazine </i>Jan/Feb 2011, I showed you what to do to get started; now I want to show you the best way to apply what you have learned in that article. I will use Silverlight, the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern, and Silverlight Unit testing to build a sample app.