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How to download and save images in WP7 Media Library?

Kunal Chowdhury — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:14:00 GMT

Sometime we may need to download images from external location to our Windows Phone 7 Media Library. Few days ago, I tried to implement the same in one of my application. Initially, I thought that it is very easy to implement but later noticed the complexity. I did few R&D with Mayur Tendulkar to implement the same and came up with a solution. Thanks to Mayur for helping me out. It this post, I will discuss the way of implementation of it with the full code snippet. Continue reading

jQuery Tip #2: Manipulating the DOM in a Loop

dwahlin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:22:53 GMT

One of jQuery's greatest strengths is its ability to manipulate the DOM with a minimal amount of code. It's so easy to change things that we often don't think about what's happening under the covers. For example, consider the following code that appends nodes to an object named parentDiv. var parentDiv = $('#emailList'); for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) { parentDiv.append('<div>' + i + '</div>'); } This is one of the more common ways to append nodes into a given paren

jQuery Tip #2 - Manipulating the DOM in a Loop

dwahlin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:22:00 GMT

Working with WP7 RadBusyIndicator control from Telerik

Kunal Chowdhury — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Busy Indicator is a tool which you can add in your Silverlight or WP7 application to show a loading indication to your user while doing some sort of operations. This is just to let the user know that something is going on. Here in this article, we will learn how to use Telerik BusyIndicator control in your Windows Phone 7 and let the user know that some operations are going on in the background. In Windows Phone 7 SDK, we don’t have any special control to show the Busy indi

Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 29-January-2012 to 04-February-2012

Kunal Chowdhury — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:21:00 GMT

Here comes the most popular 5 posts of the week (29th January 2012 to 4th February 2012) at silverlight-zone.com. This week most viewed posts were from Daniel Rubino, @f5Debug, SilverSpot, Barry Lapthorn and Joe Mayo. Read more to find out the popular links read by the developer community. Don’t forget to follow @SilverlightZone on Twitter. Become a “Fan” of our Facebook Page by clicking the “Like” button to stay updated. Subscribe to our Newsletter in case you want to get digest mail notif

Using JQuery with WinJS

Corrado Cavalli — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:20:32 GMT

I can hardly imagine any serious web development without JQuery so I did a quick test to check if it can be used inside a WinJS project and answer is: yes! even if not in its total completeness. You can’t use any CDN to get JQuery library, it must be included in your project (quite obvious since application must load even without any network connection) so I’ve grabbed latest version and added it to my WinJS project I then later created a very naïve HTML page: <!DOCTYPE html>&l

Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications

Michael Crump — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

I have a new article published on SilverlightShow today called, “Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications”. Article Introduction The Microsoft’s Live SDK (or commonly referred to as Live Connect), provides a set of controls and APIs that enables applications to integrate single sign-on (SSO) functionality using Windows Live ID. You can also use it to access data in SkyDrive, Hotmail, and Windows Live Messenger. The library supports multiple platforms, including Windows Phone

WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior

vbandi — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:00:31 GMT

The built-in resources in Windows Phone 7 help a lot with automatically reflecting the selected theme of the phone. (See my earlier blog post: Being theme aware in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight apps). However, sometimes you want to be theme aware, but need more than the predefined resources. For example, you may want to have a generally blue background color, but want it to be a dark blue for the dark theme, and a light blue for the light theme. I created a little Behavior that allows you to

Foreach, IEnumerable, IEnumerator, and Duck Typing

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:00 GMT

During my Software Craftsmanship Precompiler session, I heard one of the students say, “all you need is an IEnumerable to use a foreach loop”. This sparked a bit of fun when I asked Steve Smith, my co-presenter, if that was correct. He confirmed that it was, and I disagreed. Being the scientists that we are, we decided to try it and see what happened. I of course knew that duck typing in C# should allow the Foreach loop to compile without anything having the method required by the IEnumerable in

Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3

Laurent Bugnion — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:40:09 GMT

Ironically, my last release of MVVM Light V3 was about fixing bugs in templates and making them better. In the process however, seems that I introduced a regression bug in the WPF4 project templates. Yep shit happens. How do I know if I have the bug? Check the Programs and Features control panel, and look for MVVM Light. If the “Version” column shows 3.0.2.19, you have the bug. If it shows anything higher, you don’t. For instance, the new version with the bug correction is 3.0.3.19. Also, any