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Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: Part 1

published 424 days, 15 hours, 59 minutes ago posted by

KMil 431 days, 6 hours, 5 minutes ago

During the course of developing the SilverlightShow Windows Phone application, we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the experiences with the SilverlightShow readers, because it is a nice example of discussing a real-world application, with real-world problems (and solutions :)). The idea of this mini-series of articles was born, where you will discover both details about the development process as well as some technical challenges we came across. This first part will deal with the process ... (more)

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Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics

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http://kodierer.blogspot.com/ 498 days, 23 hours, 6 minutes ago

In this blog post Rene Schulte shares the download graph of his quite successful Windows Phone app Pictures Lab and his conclusions. (more)

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[WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app. | Jonathan ANTOINE's thoughts on WPF, Silverlight, WinRT, NUI...

published 501 days, 22 hours, 36 minutes ago posted by

jmix90 504 days, 3 hours, 57 minutes ago

Something new which came with Mango is the ability for the developers to set the number of bits per pixel our app use. By doing this, your app will have shiny graphics! This increase the color depth and then the gradient are rendered really more smoothly. I have found a really great example picture on this web forum to show this... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 17 | comment | | source: www.jonathanantoine.com

tags: wp7dev, WP7.1

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SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone

published 521 days, 18 hours, 57 minutes ago posted by

KMil 524 days, 5 hours, 53 minutes ago

In this article, we talk about how to leverage the new Live Connect APIs, in particular, the Live SDK in our Windows Phone applications. We'll see the usage of the Sign-in control to ask for user’s authentication & seeking permission to use specific resources through the Live API. SkyDrive access is now handy, with full support to traverse, read & manipulate content in user’s SkyDrive directories. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 25 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: SkyDrive, wp7dev, Windows Phone, wpdev

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Creating a WP7 app: Listbox items of the same width

published 532 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes ago posted by

http://timdams.wordpress.com/ 535 days, 3 hours, 16 minutes ago

I love databound listboxes in WP7. I do. I really do. However, every time I come to the part of making a nice template for each item (i.e. shiny ugly orange border, etc.) I fail in having items of equal size. How can we solve this?Read on! (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 68 | 1 comment | | source: timdams.wordpress.com

tags: WP7, C#, wp7dev, XAML, ListBox

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Windows Phone 7.5 - Use Background agents

published 535 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes ago posted by

KMil 538 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes ago

One of the most important features added in Windows Phone 7.5 is the multithreaded environment. This missing feature was very criticized in the previous version, but the main reason of its lack was the high battery consumption that is usual in multithread phones. In this release the team has agreed to add the multithread capability but it worked hard to reach a good balance between multithreading and battery life. This is the main reason for the introduction of Background Agents that are a way to manage ... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 41 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: wp7dev, Windows Phone, windows phone 7.5, wpdev

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WP7 : how to get the version number of my application ?

published 564 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes ago posted by

jmix90 566 days, 8 hours, 30 minutes ago

It’s always a good thing to provide information to the users of your application. One thing which may seem trivial is the version number. In fact it’s a really important information because with it the customers can send you a feedback with enough information to know in which version you have to fix the bug. In ConsoTracker, the app I build on Windows Phone, I forgot to provide it and users ask met to provide it ! In this post you’ll discover that the classic .Net way does not work and how to retrieve ... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 68 | comment | | source: www.jonathanantoine.com

tags: How-Do-I, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tip and Trick, how to

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Download Free eBook: Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth

published 570 days, 16 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by

http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 574 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes ago

Boryana Miloshevska published this eBook “Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit in Depth” in WindowsPhoneGeek.com. The book includes hands on guide with code to demonstrate all the controls available in the Windows Phone 7.1 Toolkit (August 2011). Click “Read More” to know about this book and find the links to download the eBook for Free. Hope this book will be a great help to you. Don’t forget to visit the book’s page to say a “Thanks” to the Author of the book. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 31 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com

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Windows Phone 7.1 - Local SQL Database

published 597 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes ago posted by

KMil 601 days, 4 hours, 37 minutes ago

In the upcoming release of Windows Phone 7.1, Microsoft decided to add a Local Database implementation that is targeted to business applications and is created on top of SQL Server CE. This new feature completes the storage solutions available for the phone, supporting scenario where you need a real relational database and is really easy to configure and use. It does not totally override other solutions. Sterling remains a good solution for many scenarios, but having a real relational store is almost won... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 35 | 3 comments | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

tags: Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Database, sql-ce

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Monthly Summary - September 2011 - 26 Posts You May Want to Read

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 603 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes ago

During September 2011, we have seen a no. of product releases by Microsoft including Silverlight 5 RC, Expression Blend 5 Preview, Windows 8 Developer Preview, Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Final. It was a busy month, no doubt. I also did a no. of posts (26) in my blog which has 15 articles. In this post, I am going to share all the posts submitted here in my blog as separate category. This will help you to find out the proper post that you are searching in my blog. (more)

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tags: Silverlight, Telerik, WP7, wp7dev, Microsoft, LightSwitch

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Download Windows Phone 7.1 SDK RTW (All Language Web/Offline Installer)

published 603 days, 9 minutes ago posted by

http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 605 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes ago

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 603 days, 9 minutes ago posted by

http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 605 days, 4 hours, 34 minutes ago

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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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Connection detection and bandwidth

published 605 days, 1 hour, 19 minutes ago posted by

KMil 606 days, 7 hours, 13 minutes ago

When you write a data aware application, where data is not locally accessible but is available across a network connection, you have an additional requirement to ensure the network connection is available and also it is able to transport your data in a reliable way. Working with a mobile device like Windows Phone, these requirements are strong because of the continuous variations of the cellular network availability. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 26 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net

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Know About WP7 System Tray - Tips to Show or Hide it

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 606 days, 16 hours, 38 minutes ago

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)

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tags: WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, Tips

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Solution for “The program can't start because MFPlat.dll is missing from your computer”

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 607 days, 5 hours, 56 minutes ago

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)

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tags: WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tips

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Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data

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KMil 613 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes ago

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)

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tags: Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Azure

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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Security

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KMil 614 days, 9 hours, 40 minutes ago

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)

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tags: Security, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Data Access

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Windows Phone 7 - Creating and Using Associations w/ SQL CE

published 633 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes ago posted by

derikwhittaker 634 days, 8 hours, 44 minutes ago

Taking another look at SQL CE on WP7 Mango. In this episode we will go a step further and learn how to setup relationships (aka associations) between our tables (aka models). We will focus on how to use the [Association] attribute to link our parent-child models together. ... (more)

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tags: wp7dev, DimeCasts.net, windows phone 7.1, WP7.1

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Windows Phone 7 - Getting Started w/ SQL CE

published 633 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes ago posted by

derikwhittaker 634 days, 8 hours, 45 minutes ago

Taking a look at how to setup and use SQL Ce inside your WP7 Mango Applications. Prior to Mango being released developers had to resource to storing their data in isolated storage, but now with SQL CE they can use a full RDBM system to store their data. In this episode we will take a look at how to get up and running with SQL CE ... (more)

category: Screencast | clicked: 12 | 1 comment | | source: dimecasts.net

tags: wp7dev, DimeCasts.net, windows phone 7.1, WP7.1

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Learning how to use Live Tiles in WP7 Mango

published 633 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes ago posted by

derikwhittaker 634 days, 8 hours, 46 minutes ago

Taking a look at how we can use Live Tiles in WP7 (Mango). WP7 Mango has introduced not only the ability to create Application Tiles via code but they have also added the ability to create Secondary Tiles, tiles which can deep link into your application. These Secondary tiles can also be created, updated and deleted in code and can provide a... (more)

category: Screencast | clicked: 24 | 1 comment | | source: dimecasts.net

tags: wp7dev, DimeCasts.net, windows phone 7.1, WP7.1

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wp7dev

Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: Part 1

Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics

[WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app. | Jonathan ANTOINE's thoughts on WPF, Silverlight, WinRT, NUI...

SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone

Creating a WP7 app: Listbox items of the same width

Windows Phone 7.5 - Use Background agents

WP7 : how to get the version number of my application ?

Download Free eBook: Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth

Windows Phone 7.1 - Local SQL Database

Monthly Summary - September 2011 - 26 Posts You May Want to Read

Download Windows Phone 7.1 SDK RTW (All Language Web/Offline Installer)

What is Frame Rate Counter in WP7?

Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Connection detection and bandwidth

Know About WP7 System Tray - Tips to Show or Hide it

Solution for “The program can't start because MFPlat.dll is missing from your computer”

Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data

Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Security

Windows Phone 7 - Creating and Using Associations w/ SQL CE

Windows Phone 7 - Getting Started w/ SQL CE

Learning how to use Live Tiles in WP7 Mango

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