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Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Cheat Sheet

published 631 days, 4 hours, 4 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 631 days, 14 hours, 16 minutes ago
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:45:16 PM GMT Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:33:28 AM GMT
In this SilverlightShow article, Peter Kuhn sums up all of the most important key points of the WP7 application certification requirements in the form of a cheat sheet (available for print-out!). (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 14 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: Windows Phone 7, wp7dev, wpdev
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Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 21-August-2011 to 27-August-2011 - by @kunal2383

published 632 days, 6 hours, 51 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 632 days, 12 hours, 44 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, 4 hours, 12 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 636 days, 12 hours 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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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: HttpWebRequest

published 633 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 637 days, 18 hours, 19 minutes ago
Sunday, August 28, 2011 8:46:16 PM GMT Wednesday, August 24, 2011 7:30:32 AM GMT
Read Andrea Boschin's latest SilverlightShow article "Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: HttpWebRequest". (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 16 | 1 comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: Windows Phone 7, wp7dev
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Book review: Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development

published 641 days, 17 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 642 days, 13 hours, 9 minutes ago
Saturday, August 20, 2011 7:57:43 AM GMT Friday, August 19, 2011 12:40:11 PM GMT
This review is on the book 'Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4', and has been submitted by a member of the Windows Phone 7 User Group - a user group supported by SilverlightShow. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: Windows Phone 7, wp7dev, Book
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Book Review: Windows Phone 7 Game Development

published 641 days, 17 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 642 days, 13 hours, 15 minutes ago
Saturday, August 20, 2011 7:57:43 AM GMT Friday, August 19, 2011 12:34:35 PM GMT
This review is for the book 'Windows Phone 7 Game Development', and has been submitted by a member of the Windows Phone 7 User Group - a user group supported by SilverlightShow. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 15 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: Windows Phone 7, wp7dev, Book
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Working with Default FontSize in Windows Phone 7 Applications - by @kunal2383

published 641 days, 17 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 643 days, 12 hours, 23 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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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: WebClient

published 641 days, 17 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 643 days, 14 hours, 31 minutes ago
Saturday, August 20, 2011 7:57:43 AM GMT Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:18:00 AM GMT
In this SilverlightShow article, Andrea Boschin covers the networking tools that Silverlight for Windows Phone provides, to access remote resources. No matter the resource you have to access, it implies you have to send or receive something in a serialized form that both the client and the server understand using a serialization/deserialization process. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 10 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: webclient, Windows Phone 7, wp7dev
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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/ 645 days, 23 hours, 59 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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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/ 661 days, 21 hours, 36 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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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/ 674 days, 21 hours, 32 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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Windows Phone 7 for Silverlight Developers: Input on the Phone

published 675 days, 17 hours, 11 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 677 days, 12 hours, 57 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, 4 hours, 5 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 677 days, 13 hours, 2 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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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, 12 hours, 46 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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How to Create a Circular Loader using XAML? © Kunal's Blog

published 686 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 687 days, 38 minutes ago
Wednesday, July 06, 2011 7:01:31 AM GMT Wednesday, July 06, 2011 1:11:07 AM GMT
Sometime we need to show a circular loader in WPF and/or Silverlight. We may need it in Windows Phone 7 too. In simple statement, we need to show a circular loader in various XAML applications like Silverlight, WP7 and WPF. In this article, we will learn how to create a Circular Loader as shown in the screenshot. I will not use a single line of C# code to create this loader. Everything will be in the XAML file itself to keep the code behind file clean. Read to know more about it step-by-step and after r... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 8 | comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Design, WP7, wp7dev, WPF, Silerlight, XAML
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WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Local Data Storage

published 686 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 687 days, 13 hours, 28 minutes ago
Wednesday, July 06, 2011 7:01:31 AM GMT Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:21:20 PM GMT
This is the 8th article in SilverlightShow series of articles that introduce Windows Phone 7 development to developers of other mobile platforms such as iOS and Android. In this article, Kevin Hoffman talks about some of the various options for storing and retrieving application-specific data on the phone. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 8 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: iPhone, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Android
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Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 5)

published 686 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 687 days, 13 hours, 36 minutes ago
Wednesday, July 06, 2011 7:01:31 AM GMT Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:13:33 PM GMT
This is the last part of Peter Kuhn's SilverlightShow article series to prepare you for Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 exam which will be available starting July 14th. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, 70-599 exam
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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, 1 hour, 14 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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Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 26-June-2011 to 02-July-2011 © Kunal's Blog

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 689 days, 19 hours, 34 minutes ago
Sunday, July 03, 2011 6:15:31 AM GMT
Here comes the weekly digest of Silverlight-Zone.com from 26th June 2011 to 2nd July 2011. We have completed 6 months of this site with more than 2000 news items. We received some good feedback too including a huge hit to the site. This motivates us to serve you better in future. In this post, I am going to share the top 5 posts of this week. Windows Phone 7 is trending in this site. Top 5 posts are "The news of distribution of WP7 Mango to developers by Microsoft", "Windows 8 Rumour to Future for WP7",... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 2 | 1 comment | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, WP7, wp7dev, Silverlight Zone, SilverlightZone, LightSwitch, 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, 1 hour, 8 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