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Download Windows Phone 7.1 SDK RTW (All Language Web/Offline Installer)
published 599 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 601 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes ago
Saturday, October 01, 2011 6:53:51 PM GMT Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:33:42 PM GMT
Microsoft released Windows Phone 7.1 SDK tools yesterday, 28th September 2011. It’s in RTW release, that means, it is released to web. Cliff Simpkins announced the release of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 in Windows Team Blog. In this post, find the link to download the RTW version of Windows Phone 7.1 SDK (Mango) which includes both the web and standalone offline installer for all separate languages. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 28 | 3 comments | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, mango
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What is Frame Rate Counter in WP7?
published 599 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 601 days, 23 hours, 14 minutes ago
Saturday, October 01, 2011 6:53:51 PM GMT Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:28:12 PM GMT
While working with Windows Phone 7 emulator, you might noticed that, in debug mode it shows some numeric values at the right side of the screen. So, what are those values and why that numeric bar is available in debug mode? The bar represents numeric values for Frame Rates to debug Memory usage by your WP7 application. In this post, we will briefly discuss on this topic. Read further to learn more about this Frame Rate Counter. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 7 | 3 comments | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tips
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Know About WP7 System Tray - Tips to Show or Hide it
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 603 days, 11 hours, 18 minutes ago
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 2:24:32 AM GMT
In Windows Phone 7, the System Tray is the small bar across the top of the screen in Portrait mode. It displays the Signal strength, Current time and Wi-Fi connection strength. In this post, we will learn more about Windows Phone 7 System Tray. It is easy to write code to show or hide the tray. We will use a small demo to demonstrate it. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 10 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, Tips
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Solution for “The program can't start because MFPlat.dll is missing from your computer”
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 604 days, 36 minutes ago
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:06:12 PM GMT
Are you facing any issue deploying your Windows Phone 7 application in the emulator or, are you facing any issue while opening the Windows Phone 7 emulator? Is it stating some System Error while finding “MFPlat.dll”? If you are facing the similar issue, this post will help you. Do bookmark this post and share to others, so that, if anyone is facing the same will resolve it easily. In this post, I will tell you the background of the issue and the solution to fix this problem. If you have any other altern... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 17 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tips
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Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 21-August-2011 to 27-August-2011 - by @kunal2383
published 632 days, 18 hours, 45 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 633 days, 37 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, 16 hours, 5 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 636 days, 23 hours, 53 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, 5 hours, 45 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 644 days, 16 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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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, 9 hours, 25 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, 10 hours, 21 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 (Mango) Tutorial - 28 - How to Detect the Current Theme? © Kunal's Blog
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 681 days, 39 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
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 26 - What is Input Scope? © Kunal's Blog
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 688 days, 13 hours, 7 minutes ago
Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:35:09 AM GMT
Input Scope of a TextBox defines the information related to the scope of the data provided by the input method and use to define the layout of the onscreen keyboard of the device. It is present in the "System.Windows.Input" namespace and exposed in TextBox as a property called "InputScope". You might be wondering what is this property and why should one use it. Ok, let us discuss this in depth with a small sample. After reading this chapter, you will be able to understand it more and use it on your busi... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial, mango
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 25 - Learn about Database Connection String © Kunal's Blog
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 692 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes ago
Friday, July 01, 2011 12:40:46 AM GMT
Last three days we learnt about the new feature of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) called "Local Database Support". Yesterday we discussed it in depth by building a small demo application. While working with the demo you might noticed that, we used a connection string to connect with the local database present in the Windows Phone storage. In this post, we will discuss more on the connection string. After reading this post, you will be able to know what are the various types and parameters available for connect... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial, mango
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 24 - Local Database Support, CRUD operation with Demo © Kunal's Blog
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 693 days, 12 hours, 49 minutes ago
Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:53:32 AM GMT
In the last two chapters of the tutorial series, we discussed about the local database support in Windows Phone 7 (Mango). We learnt how to create a DataContext class from existing SQL CE database and also we learnt about the issues that arises once we add the class file in the project to build. We learnt the steps to resolve those issues too. In this article, we are going to discuss about the CRUD operations that we can do using the DataContext class with a small application. We will learn how to creat... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, SQL, Tutorial, Database, mango
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 23 - Local Database Support, Configuring Project © Kunal's Blog
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 694 days, 11 hours, 33 minutes ago
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:09:06 AM GMT
Hope you read my previous post on Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) local database support. If you didn't read the earlier post, you need to read it before reading this one. You can find it here: "Create DataContext". That will give you the basic context about the same. In this post (I will rather calling it as a Tip), we will configure the project by adding the generated DataContext class and in the next post, we will learn what are the various CRUD operations we can do with a sample application. That will giv... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, SQL, Database, mango
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 22 - Local Database Support, Create DataContext © Kunal's Blog
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 695 days, 12 hours, 13 minutes ago
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 1:28:53 AM GMT
Do you know that, Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) now supports local database? Yes, you can now use local database inside your Phone 7 device and use it to CRUD operations. You can now create a DataContext class from an existing database and use it as the entry point class to do DB operation. In this chapter we will learn how to create a DataContext class for local SQL CE database. At the end of this tutorial our data context class will be ready for further DB operations. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial, mango
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 15 - Detecting Device Information © Kunal's Blog
published 701 days, 7 hours, 18 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 703 days, 12 hours, 51 minutes ago
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 6:24:14 AM GMT Monday, June 20, 2011 12:51:22 AM GMT
In our last chapter of Windows Phone 7 Tutorial, we learnt about detecting network information using the static class called DeviceNetworkInformation. We also demonstrated it with a small demo application. In this new chapter of the tutorial series, we will learn how to detect the device information using the APIs present inside the SDK. We will learn how to detect whether any Keyboard has been installed with the device, whether the device is running under battery or using any external power supply. We ... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 14 - Detecting Network Information of the Device © Kunal's Blog
published 703 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 705 days, 12 hours, 42 minutes ago
Monday, June 20, 2011 12:28:19 PM GMT Saturday, June 18, 2011 1:00:46 AM GMT
User can now detect the mobile operator and other network information's in Windows Phone 7.1 Mango devices programmatically. The new APIs to detect these information will help you to identify the mobile operator, availability of network, Wi-Fi access etc. Let's jump into deep drive to know more about these APIs and the integration to your application using a small demo. Read to learn about it. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 7 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial
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Windows Phone 7 Tip: Showing and Hiding onscreen keyboard in Emulator © Kunal's Blog
published 704 days, 14 hours, 49 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 706 days, 12 hours, 55 minutes ago
Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:53:45 PM GMT Friday, June 17, 2011 12:47:34 AM GMT
If you are developing any Windows Phone 7 application form and using the Emulator to run the app, you may find this tip very useful. A first time user who feels very annoying to click the mouse button to enter text using the phone emulator can hide the onscreen keyboard and use the computer's keyboard after reading this tip. Read to know more about the small tip which will make your life even easy. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tip, Tips
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MSDN Magazine: Windows Phone 7 - Sterling for Isolated Storage on Windows Phone 7
posted by https://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0dhttps://me.yahoo.com/mosessaur#7fe0d 710 days, 14 hours, 25 minutes ago
Sunday, June 12, 2011 11:16:57 PM GMT
Learn how to leverage the Sterling open source database library to persist and query data locally in Windows Phone 7 apps with minimal effort, along with a simple strategy for managing state when an application is deactivated upon a user switching to another application. (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 17 | comment | | source: msdn.microsoft.com
tags: WindowsPhone7, WindowsPhone, Windows Phone 7, WP7, Windows Phone 7 Development, wp7dev, MSDN, Windows Phone, MSDN Magazine
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 10 - What is Application State? © Kunal's Blog
published 709 days, 16 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 712 days, 9 hours, 29 minutes ago
Monday, June 13, 2011 9:07:43 PM GMT Saturday, June 11, 2011 4:13:29 AM GMT
Last two days, we discussed about Windows Phone 7 Page State. We learnt about saving and retrieving state of a page whenever require. Page State defines the current visual state of application page. Page state is accessible within that page. But think about a condition where you want to save values to the state and want to access them across the application. Then what to do? You have the option to use the Application State in that case. Application State stores data values which can be accessible by mul... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 6 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial
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