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Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data

posted by KMilKMil 610 days, 21 minutes ago
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:12:04 PM GMT
This article would be a natural continuation of Samidip Basu's previous post on “Connecting Azure and Windows Phone through OData” and show a different way of leveraging Azure cloud services for your Mobile applications. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Azure
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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Security

posted by KMilKMil 611 days, 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:22:30 AM GMT
In this SilverlightShow article, Andrea Boschin focuses on the important topic about the limitations of Windows Phone 7 and shows an example based on WCF from which you can for sure extract some guidelines for securing network communications. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: Security, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Data Access
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Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 28-August-2011 to 03-September-2011

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 626 days, 18 hours, 56 minutes ago
Sunday, September 04, 2011 5:37:21 PM GMT
Last week, Microsoft released Silverlight 5 Release Candidate (RC). If you didn't yet download the bits and try out the new features, read the post "Silverlight 5 RC is now Available". During the week, we submitted blog posts from various sources to Silverlight-Zone.com on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch, XNA and other similar categories. In this blog post, find the top viewed 5 posts @SilverlightZone. "The WP7 Motion API" was the popular post. Read more to find out the complete list, as well... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WP7, Silverlight Zone, SilverlightZone
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Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 21-August-2011 to 27-August-2011 - by @kunal2383

published 632 days, 17 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 632 days, 23 hours, 28 minutes ago
Monday, August 29, 2011 6:57:44 PM GMT Monday, August 29, 2011 1:04:49 PM GMT
Here comes the weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. During last week (i.e. from 21st August 2011 to 27th August 2011) we have submitted 78 new links in Silverlight-Zone on various topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch, XAML, MVVM, XNA and more. Most popular post was "Fundamental MVVM" from John Papa. In this post, I am going to share the top 5 visited posts @SilverlightZone during last week. Also, I am going to share the daily news digest links in case you missed to find some of t... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 7 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, XAML, LightSwitch
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Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate (RC) released – Download the Offline/Web Installer - by @kunal2383

published 636 days, 14 hours, 56 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 636 days, 22 hours, 44 minutes ago
Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:37:21 PM GMT Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:48:48 PM GMT
Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Release Candidate (RC) is now available for download. Microsoft released this version with “Go Live” license, that means, you can now build production applications and submit them to the Marketplace. This build also empowers the developer to build applications and games both for WP7.0 and WP7.1 devices. In this post, find the link to the web installer and standalone/offline installer. Download, install and start building your games or applications. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 23 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: WindowsPhone7, news, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Microsoft
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Working with Default FontSize in Windows Phone 7 Applications - by @kunal2383

published 642 days, 4 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 643 days, 23 hours, 7 minutes ago
Saturday, August 20, 2011 7:57:43 AM GMT Thursday, August 18, 2011 1:26:02 PM GMT
Hope you already read my article series "Collection of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorials". During the tutorial series, we used the common styles "PhoneTextNormalStyle" and "PhoneTextTitle1Style" in the TextBlocks added to the TitlePanel. So what are those? These are all common styles defined by the style library of WP7 SDK. In this post, we will learn about various font sizes defined in the default style library of Windows Phone 7. So, you don't have to define them again and can reuse those styles which... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, XAML
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Trouble with resources in WP7

published 642 days, 4 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by http://rredcat.blogspot.com/http://rredcat.blogspot.com/ 645 days, 15 hours, 1 minute ago
Saturday, August 20, 2011 7:57:43 AM GMT Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:32:19 PM GMT
I started a few projects on WP7. It was done just for fun and for improving my skills (Fun was profitable - I won in Ukrainian WP7 competition). So I had completed my projects and tried to localize it. I met some issues: If you have experience in developing for web silverlight - first isn't new for you. When I edit/add/remove a item in resources's file I need to open resources designer's file and change access modifiers of parameterless constructor from "internal" to "public". It is know issue and ... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: rredcat.blogspot.com
tags: Silverlight, WP7, XAML, resource
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Fetching Picasa Images through RSS in WP7 - by @kunal2383

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 646 days, 10 hours, 43 minutes ago
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:49:48 AM GMT
Today in this article we will discuss how to fetch feed from Picasa and display images from that RSS feed to your Windows Phone 7. This will not only clear the image feed mechanism in WP7, but will also help you to understand how to read RSS feed in Windows Phone 7 or in a Silverlight application. After reading this article, you will be able to fetch any feed and display specific content in your application. Hope, this will help you. Don't forget to share it to your followers and if you have any query, ... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Picasa, Silverlight, WP7, wp7dev, rss
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How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE? - by @kunal2383

published 654 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 656 days, 9 hours, 38 minutes ago
Sunday, August 07, 2011 8:39:59 PM GMT Saturday, August 06, 2011 2:55:17 AM GMT
If you work in XAML pages, sometime you might noticed that the XAML page freezes for sometime while opening the page in design view. This is very annoying and many time it is responsible to crash the Visual Studio IDE. So what to do? If you use Expression Blend to design the XAML page or don't want to open the XAML in design view, this small tip will help you to improve the performance of the IDE. Read more to know. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 10 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WP7, WPF, Visual Studio, XAML, VisualStudio
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Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 24-July-2011 to 30-July-2011 - by @kunal2383

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 662 days, 8 hours, 20 minutes ago
Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:13:33 AM GMT
Last week was a busy week in Microsoft Technology. We noticed lots of releases during the whole week and hence increased the no. of posts in Silverlight-Zone.com too. During the week, 24th July 2011 to 30th July 2011, we have total 87 new article and news links posted here on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and LightSwitch. In this weekly news digest, I am going to share the popular 5 posts of the week and links to all the daily digest pages. Most popular posts are on News of "WP7 Mango build 7712 release"... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WP7, wp7dev, Silverlight Zone, SilverlightZone
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Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 17-July-2011 to 23-July-2011 - by @kunal2383

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 667 days, 22 hours, 12 minutes ago
Monday, July 25, 2011 2:21:10 PM GMT
During the week 17th July to 23rd July, we have 68 new article links at Silverlight-Zone.com which consists of various topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch, XAML and Blend. In this weekly news digest, I am going to share the popular 5 posts of the week and links to all the daily digest pages. Most popular posts are on "A Collection of WP7 (Mango) Tutorials", "3rd Part of Data Driven Application with MVVM", "Metro Theme Customization7", "Microsoft has 3 months to make or break Windows Ph... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, WP7, Silverlight Zone, SilverlightZone
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Silverlight is Dead, Long Live XAML

posted by KodefuGuruKodefuGuru 674 days, 14 hours, 59 minutes ago
Monday, July 18, 2011 9:34:30 PM GMT
A few weeks ago I was in the Telerik cafeteria at our world headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria, and a colleague walked up to me and asked: "Is Silverlight dead?" I replied: "No, but it has seen better days." Since Silverlight's absence from last year's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Redmond, WA, the infamous "our strategy has shifted" comment made by Microsoft Server and Tools Division President Bob Muglia, Scott Guthrie's move out of DevDiv, and the recent reorg of the XAML team, the communi... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: blogs.telerik.com
tags: Silverlight, WP7, WPF, Jupiter, XAML, XBox
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31 Days with WP7 - A Collection of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorials You Must Read © Kunal's Blog

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 675 days, 8 hours, 16 minutes ago
Monday, July 18, 2011 4:17:06 AM GMT
Recently I had started exploring Windows Phone 7 with first Mango update and accumulated a no. of beginners tutorial in my blog. In this post, I am going to share all the chapters of the series as "31 days with WP7" - a must needed guide for a beginner who wants to learn about Windows Phone 7 programming. Hope, this will be helpful to you to understand the basics before jump start to the application development. This post is on popular demand and I am dedicating this to all my blog readers. Thank you ev... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 8 | 1 comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial
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Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 10-July-2011 to 16-July-2011 © Kunal's Blog

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 676 days, 9 hours, 12 minutes ago
Sunday, July 17, 2011 3:21:01 AM GMT
The weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com released. We have 63 new article links posted in Silverlight-Zone on different topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and LightSwitch. In this post, I am going to share the top most 5 links as well as the daily digest links for your reference. This week (10th July 2011 to 16th July 2011) top post was on the future of Silverlight and whether Silverlight is really dead. This post was made by Stephan Forte. A good discussion on Silverlight and XAML. If you a... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, WP7, Silverlight Zone, SilverlightZone
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Windows Phone 7 for Silverlight Developers: Input on the Phone

published 676 days, 3 hours, 55 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 677 days, 23 hours, 41 minutes ago
Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:37:44 AM GMT Friday, July 15, 2011 12:51:58 PM GMT
This is a free part of the Design Considerations chapter of András Velvárt's new eBook "Windows Phone 7 for Silverlight Developers". (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev
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Windows Phone 7 for Silverlight Developers: Portrait and Landscape & Themes

published 674 days, 14 hours, 49 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 677 days, 23 hours, 46 minutes ago
Monday, July 18, 2011 9:44:25 PM GMT Friday, July 15, 2011 12:47:02 PM GMT
SilverlightShow has the honour to publish an entirely new ebook by the 4-time awardee of a Silverlight MVP title András Velvárt: "Windows Phone 7 for Silverlight Developers". In this and in a previous article you may find free parts of the Design Considerations chapter of this ebook. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 19 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev
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Deploying your App to Windows Phone Device | Ginktage

posted by http://isenthil.myopenid.com/http://isenthil.myopenid.com/ 678 days, 8 hours, 52 minutes ago
Friday, July 15, 2011 3:40:49 AM GMT
Deploying your App to Windows Phone Device The Windows Phone Emulator provides most of the functionalities for the developers to test the App. But, it’s always better to test the App on the real device. To do this, the developers should have the Zune software installed as well as unlock the Windows Phone with the developer (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.ginktage.com
tags: WP7
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Use Expression Blend to change the Layout Type Efficiently © Kunal's Blog

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 679 days, 9 hours, 5 minutes ago
Thursday, July 14, 2011 3:28:30 AM GMT
Many time we need to change the layout type of any panel present inside the page. This is mainly a designers job but sometime developers need to change them on their requirement. In that case, people need to find out the start and end tag of the panel and change them accordingly. This is little bit a tricky process. In this post, I am going to share you the easy process to switch between different layout types. If you are a designer or using Expression Blend, you are already familiar with it. But for a ... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WP7, WPF, Blend, expressionblend, XAML
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How to Create a Different Circular Loader using XAML? © Kunal's Blog

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 680 days, 8 hours, 30 minutes ago
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:03:33 AM GMT
Last Wednesday (July 6th 2011) we explored a way to create a Circular loader using XAML without writing any line in the code behind file. Lot of you gave a good feedback and discussed various findings on the same. I did some more investigation to create a different type of circular loader which you can include in your Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7 applications where you are using XAML code. In this article, I will be guiding to create similar kind of Circular loader as shown above. This will be m... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WP7, WPF, XAML
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 28 - How to Detect the Current Theme? © Kunal's Blog

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 680 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes ago
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 1:03:03 PM GMT
Many time we need to find out which Theme we are using in Windows Phone 7. Based upon the chosen theme we may want to set our own Theme for the application. So, how to find out that? In this post, I am going to share you the Tip. Using it you will be able to identify the current theme of your Windows Phone 7 device. Read to know more. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial, mango