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How to Create a Circular Loader using XAML? © Kunal's Blog
published 686 days, 11 hours, 44 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 686 days, 17 hours, 34 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)
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tags: Design, WP7, wp7dev, WPF, Silerlight, XAML
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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/ 687 days, 18 hours, 10 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)
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tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial, mango
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MVVM from Scratch using Silverlight (PUG Monthly Meet - July 2011) © Kunal's Blog
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 688 days, 18 hours, 5 minutes ago
Monday, July 04, 2011 12:40:32 AM GMT
On coming Saturday, 9th July 2011, I am going to take an hour session on "MVVM from Scratch using Silverlight" in the Pune User Group's (PUG) monthly meeting. The session will start from 10 AM and will continue for one hour. Also there are two more sessions on Windows Phone 7 and Parallel Programming. In this one hour session, I will demonstrate what is MVVM pattern, how a designer/developer will get the benefit of using it. I will also demonstrate how this will help you to clear up the code behind file... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, PUG, MVVM, Event
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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, 12 hours, 30 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)
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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/ 691 days, 18 hours, 4 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)
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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/ 692 days, 17 hours, 52 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)
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tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, WP7, wp7dev, SQL, Tutorial, Database, mango
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Download Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 (Mango) - Web and Offline Installer © Kunal's Blog
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 693 days, 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:26:16 PM GMT
Microsoft released Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta 2 today, 29th June 2011. It has a no. of new features as well as some breaking changes respect to previous Beta 1 release. In this post, find the link to download the Beta 2 SDK of Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) which includes both the web and standalone offline installer. Also find the links towards new and breaking changes. (more)
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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/ 693 days, 16 hours, 36 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)
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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/ 694 days, 17 hours, 16 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)
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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 700 days, 12 hours, 21 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 702 days, 17 hours, 54 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)
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Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 12-June-2011 to 18-June-2011 © Kunal's Blog
published 702 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 703 days, 16 hours, 35 minutes ago
Monday, June 20, 2011 12:28:19 PM GMT Sunday, June 19, 2011 2:10:36 AM GMT
During the week 12th June to 18th June, we posted 63 new article links at Silverlight-Zone.com which consists of 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 "Google Maps for WP7 using Bing Map control", "HTML5 and Silverlight5 discussion", "Tips & Tricks on Office with Mobile 7", "HTML5 based WP7 Application" and "Release date for WP7 Mango... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, WP7, wp7dev, Silverlight Zone, SilverlightZone
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 14 - Detecting Network Information of the Device © Kunal's Blog
published 702 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 704 days, 17 hours, 44 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)
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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 703 days, 19 hours, 51 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 705 days, 17 hours, 58 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)
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tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tip, Tips
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 13 - What is Tombstoning? © Kunal's Blog
published 705 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 706 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes ago
Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:51:14 PM GMT Thursday, June 16, 2011 1:03:42 AM GMT
Mobile phones have very limited resource as compared to a desktop PC and hence it is very difficult to run multiple applications simultaneously. Also, suppose if multiple resources run simultaneously, it will eat up the battery life and make your phone stop working after certain period of time. So what to do? To overcome this situation, tombstoning comes into picture. It saves the current data and then moves the app to the background or closes the app after saving all the data. This calls as Tombstoning... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial
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A Solution for Binding Silverlight DataGrid Columns to 2nd Level Collection © Kunal's Blog
published 706 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 707 days, 17 hours, 12 minutes ago
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:34:46 PM GMT Wednesday, June 15, 2011 1:33:37 AM GMT
Supreet Tare posted a thread on MSDN Forum to help him binding a 2nd Level Collection in Silverlight DataGrid control. As he didn't find any good solution there, he asked me on Twitter to give a solution to him for the same. I did a small investigation and came up with a solution for him. In this post, I am going to describe the problem, as well as solution to this. Hope this solution will be helpful to you too and hence sharing in my blog. Read more to find out the solution. (more)
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tags: Silverlight, XAML
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 12 - Using Isolated Storage to Store and Retrieve Data © Kunal's Blog
published 706 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 708 days, 17 hours, 45 minutes ago
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:34:46 PM GMT Tuesday, June 14, 2011 1:00:14 AM GMT
Last couple of days we discussed about Page State and Application State of Windows Phone 7 (Mango). We learnt various ways of saving state of the page or application. After reading those chapters, you might have question in your mind that how to save the state of the application before closing the application and once you comeback again, you should get them back. If you are familiar in Silverlight, you should have answer to this. Yes, we can use Isolated Storage to save the state of the app and read val... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, mango
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 11 - Application State Management © Kunal's Blog
posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 709 days, 17 hours, 57 minutes ago
Monday, June 13, 2011 12:48:00 AM GMT
On last Saturday we learnt about basics of Application State in Windows Phone 7 Application. We discussed about the steps to pass value from one page to another using the Application State. In this chapter, we will learn more on the same with a small and simple demo. So, read to know about it and learn the way of sharing data between pages using state. At the end, please provide your feedback. Don't forget to share it to the community. (more)
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tags: Silverlight, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial
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Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 05-June-2011 to 11-June-2011 © Kunal's Blog
published 708 days, 21 hours, 38 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 710 days, 11 hours, 3 minutes ago
Monday, June 13, 2011 9:07:43 PM GMT Sunday, June 12, 2011 7:41:50 AM GMT
Here comes this week's News Digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. This time we have total 74 news items on various articles based on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch etc. Also contains some tips and other posts on MVVM, XAML and Blend. Most popular posts were "Silverlight Elevator Pitch", "War between Silverlight, HTML & Windows 8", "Bing Map Control for Windows Phone 7", "Is Silverlight Dead? No, it's not. It's the heart of WP7, Windows 8, XNA" and "All about WP7 Emulator". Read more to find th... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, WP7, wp7dev, Silverlight Zone, SilverlightZone, XAML
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 10 - What is Application State? © Kunal's Blog
published 708 days, 21 hours, 38 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 711 days, 14 hours, 32 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)
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tags: Silverlight, WindowsPhone7, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial
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Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 9 - Page State Management © Kunal's Blog
published 708 days, 21 hours, 38 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 712 days, 18 hours, 8 minutes ago
Monday, June 13, 2011 9:07:43 PM GMT Friday, June 10, 2011 12:36:55 AM GMT
Yesterday we discussed the basic theory on Windows Phone 7 Page State. We came to know what is this and when to use this. We also came to know the way to implement the state management. In this chapter of the tutorial series, we will learn more about Page State Management in Windows Phone 7.1 with a small application. After reading this tutorial chapter, you will be able to store page state, retrieve and clear them on your need. Read to know more about this topic, share the link to others and ask any qu... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 5 | 2 comments | | source: www.kunal-chowdhury.com
tags: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Tutorial
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