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Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: Part 1

published 422 days, 4 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 428 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes ago
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:03:48 AM GMT Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:57:26 PM GMT
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)
category: Metro | clicked: 30 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: wp7dev, Windows Phone, wpdev
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Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets

published 491 days, 14 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 493 days, 15 hours, 57 minutes ago
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:59:12 PM GMT Monday, January 16, 2012 3:49:53 PM GMT
The new OS 7.5 have made Sockets available to developers, opening the way to a wide series of applications that uses this low-level communication way. Sockets are for sure difficult from the programming side, but they offer a connected/disconnected, fast and reliable way of exchange data that is unreplaceable for many purposes. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 8 | comment | | source: www.silverlightshow.net
tags: windows phone 7.5, wpdev, sockets
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Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics

published 494 days, 19 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by http://kodierer.blogspot.com/http://kodierer.blogspot.com/ 496 days, 11 hours, 50 minutes ago
Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:54:38 AM GMT Friday, January 13, 2012 7:56:43 PM GMT
In this blog post Rene Schulte shares the download graph of his quite successful Windows Phone app Pictures Lab and his conclusions. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 40 | comment | | source: kodierer.blogspot.com
tags: WP7, wp7dev, wpdev
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Let me out - Facebook Logout in a Windows Phone App

published 501 days, 18 hours, 3 minutes ago posted by http://kodierer.blogspot.com/http://kodierer.blogspot.com/ 504 days, 11 hours, 4 minutes ago
Sunday, January 08, 2012 1:43:59 PM GMT Thursday, January 05, 2012 8:42:25 PM GMT
This post describes how to logout from Facebook using the Facebook API, which isn't as straightforward as one might think it is. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 21 | comment | | source: kodierer.blogspot.com
tags: WP7, wpdev
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WriteableBitmapEx 1.0 Coming Soon, Test it Now!

published 519 days, 7 hours, 41 minutes ago posted by http://kodierer.blogspot.com/http://kodierer.blogspot.com/ 520 days, 10 hours, 49 minutes ago
Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:05:29 AM GMT Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:58:09 PM GMT
The upcoming release of the WriteableBitmapEx library 1.0 will be easier portable and have full maintained WPF support. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 43 | 1 comment | | source: kodierer.blogspot.com
tags: Silverlight, WP7, WPF, wpdev
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SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone

published 519 days, 7 hours, 41 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 521 days, 18 hours, 37 minutes ago
Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:05:29 AM GMT Monday, December 19, 2011 1:09:54 PM GMT
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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Windows Phone Sites Around the World

posted by http://kodierer.blogspot.com/http://kodierer.blogspot.com/ 535 days, 10 hours, 54 minutes ago
Monday, December 05, 2011 8:53:15 PM GMT
This post contains a list of international and regional Windows Phone news sites focused on consumers. This list could be useful if a developer plans to release a localized version of an app and want to promote it a bit. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 6 | comment | | source: kodierer.blogspot.com
tags: WP7, Windows Phone, wpdev
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Windows Phone 7.5 - Use Background agents

published 533 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 535 days, 17 hours, 13 minutes ago
Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:26:26 AM GMT Monday, December 05, 2011 2:33:52 PM GMT
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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WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.8.5 Now Available

published 571 days, 11 hours, 5 minutes ago posted by http://kodierer.blogspot.com/http://kodierer.blogspot.com/ 573 days, 13 hours, 4 minutes ago
Sunday, October 30, 2011 8:41:35 PM GMT Friday, October 28, 2011 6:42:38 PM GMT
The new release v0.9.8.5 of the WriteableBitmapEx library was just made public. A few new features were added and many small, uncritical issues were fixed. (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 20 | comment | | source: kodierer.blogspot.com
tags: Silverlight, wpdev
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Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Cheat Sheet

published 632 days, 10 hours, 2 minutes ago posted by KMilKMil 632 days, 20 hours, 13 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