Lohith Nagaraj05/16/12
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In this post I would like to point you all to an excellent post my one of my favorite technical blogger Scot Hanselman. Scot is a principal program manager at Microsoft and works for the Web Department.
Mikael Koskinen05/16/12
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SocketEx.TcpClient is a MIT-licensed TcpClient for Windows Phone which aims to make working with Windows Phone sockets easy. Compared to the TcpClient in full .NET Framework, SocketEx.TcpClient isn’t 100% compatible and some of the features aren’t implemented at all.
Daniel Egan05/15/12
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How to use Uncorked to log/rate your Wine collection on all three platforms (Windows, Android, Apple).
Karthikeyan Anb...05/14/12
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In this article we are going to see how to play around with the Media Player Launcher task, with this Media Player task we can provide with in the application to launch a media player and play a video or audio file.
Den Delimarsky05/12/12
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In some cases, it is possible to use stock icon resources as the main Windows Phone application icon. Den lists some of the icons as well as shows how to access them.
Den Delimarsky05/12/12
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Den Delimarsky explains how to use spritesheets with different fragment sizes and ensure a smooth transition between them when necessary in XNA.
Karthikeyan Anb...05/12/12
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This quick tutorial walks you through the Bing Maps Direction Task, currently available in Windows Phone App. development; it allows you to find the shortest driving direction between 2 specific points.
Karthikeyan Anb...05/11/12
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In this tutorial we are going to start with the list of chooser task, in my previous tutorials we have seen the different Launcher tasks available and we explored each one of them. Here we are going to see about the Address Chooser Task, with this chooser task we can provide an option for the end user to select a contact and get information on that particular contact.
William Soprano05/13/12
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To celebrate its sixth month on the web, Windows Phone Parent has launched Familia Windows Phone, the first Spanish review site for Windows Phone apps that enhance the lives of kids and their parents.
Francesco De Vittori05/10/12
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It may be obvious for most of you, but it took a while to my caveman brain to realize this, so I figured I could post it for other cavemen.
Andrea Haubner05/09/12
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I don’t have a kitchen timer, but who cares? I have a Windows Phone, right? So I just created a little Alarm application to compensate for missing kitchen equipment.
Andrea Haubner05/09/12
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I don’t have a kitchen timer, but who cares? I have a Windows Phone, right? So I just created a little Alarm application to compensate for missing kitchen equipment.
Sony Arouje05/08/12
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This tutorial describes the XAML and code behind the Toolbar panel and Toolbar item for Silverlight, as well as offering a useful test page.
Kunal Chowdhury05/08/12
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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.
Kunal Chowdhury05/08/12
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Under the System namespace, we have a class called “Environment” which has different properties to return information about the Windows Phone 7 device. The exposed APIs are as mentioned below.
Karthikeyan Anb...05/07/12
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In this article we are going to see how to consume a ODATA service in Windows Phone 7 application. ODATA is Open Data Protocol is an entity model used to access data as a REST service, which can be used to execute queries and to create, update and delete data on to the remote data service.
Simon Jackson05/07/12
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Unity and SunBurn are two of the top game engines, and are revered by indie developers from all corners of the development world. The following article details my observations of both engines and lays bare for all to see the outline plans and feature lists for each.
Den Delimarsky05/06/12
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Den Delimarsky shows how it is possible to create a moving panoramic background for a main menu screen in an XNA game on Windows Phone.
Den Delimarsky05/06/12
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Here is why you should try to avoid hard-coding values in your Windows Phone Applications, demonstrated on a real-world application example.
Karthikeyan Anb...05/06/12
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In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use the Market place detail task, with this task we can get the complete detail of a specified application.
Mikael Koskinen05/05/12
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Continuing our exploration of doing navigation in a WinRT XAML Metro-app, there’s one more crucial difference when the page navigation in WinRT is compared to the Windows Phone 7’s page navigation: The navigation cache.
Mikael Koskinen05/05/12
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Great frameworks like Caliburn.Micro don't quite exist yet so one way to navigate while using MVVM pattern is to wrap the Frame-object.
Mikael Koskinen05/04/12
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When you’re using a DI-container like Unity, you normally don’t have to worry about how the container resolves the new instance. But there may be cases where you have pass in custom constructor parameters for the resolve operation.
Zhiming Xue05/03/12
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Don't let your .NET code go to waste! This video outlines ifactor, a tool that allows you to reuse .NET code for mobile apps.
Mikael Koskinen05/03/12
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In Windows Phone 7 it’s possible to bind Image-control’s Source-property either to a string or an Uri and they both work. In WinRT binding against an Uri doesn’t work.
