Chris Sainty

I received notification this morning that gReadie will be accepted into the early access program for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. So sometime Monday I will be logging in and submitting. Hopefully it also means the app will be in the marketplace from day 1.

I recorded one last video that takes a run right through the app. I already have a huge list of features to go into future releases but the last few days have involved making sure the app is well tested and running as nicely as I can manage on the emulator. I am very keen to get a real device and see how it goes on there.

I have posted another gReadie video to YouTube.

This video quickly shows off the services the app is now connected to.

Today I am showing off the first peek at a Windows Phone 7 application I have been working on recently.

The premise is simple, gReadie is a Google Reader client for the Windows Phone 7 platform. In this apparently Twitter and Facebook addicted world, I guess blogs are becoming out of date, but I still use Google Reader daily on my PC and iPhone, so I will have at least one user.

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I came across the MultiBinding markup extension and IMultiValueConveter today when looking for a solution to a problem. Not sure how I missed it previously. If you didn’t I probably don’t have a lot to add, but if you have not heard of them then read on.

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I’ve read a lot of blog posts about the Repository pattern. Whenever I have looked at implementing it, I always come away underwhelmed. It’s one of those things that displays nicely in a small example but in practice you end up with a huge number of methods that each query the data in a similar but slightly different manner, and for me it’s fault is with querying.

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