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101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #33 – Get Mobile Operator details in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how we can get the mobile operator details in Windows Phone Application development. In order to get the mobile operator information we are going to use the API class which is DeviceNetworkInformation class. This class has information on the network details of the specific device from [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #32 – Use Application Deployment Tool in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the Application Deployment tool with Windows Phone Application Development. With this tool we can deploy our application to test it with the registered windows phone device or as well with the Windows Emulators in 512MB ram emulator and also with a 256MB ram [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #31 – Test developed applications in both 512MB Ram and 256MB Ram Emulators in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:17:43 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to test the windows phone application developed in both 512MB ram targeted devices and also 256MB ram devices. This feature is available with the latest Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1, download and install the package using the link Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update. With this update, [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #30 – Create a Splash Screen in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to Create a Splash screen in Windows Phone 7 application development. Splash Screens are nothing but a nice animation or an image shown while an application or a game is loading background. Splash screen provides the user with real effect on how the application [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #29 – Using Isolated Storage Explorer Tool in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see an interesting tool which is used to explore the Isolated Storage file with ease. To begin with Isolated Storage in Windows Phone 7 is something similar which we have with Silverlight. In Windows Phone 7 Isolated storage is space provided to store the data locally [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #28 – Play with Save Ringtone Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the Save Ringtone task with windows phone application development. We have seen similar kind of tasks in our previous tutorials like Save Email Address task, Save Phone Number task etc. Similar to those task this will also be used in day to day [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #27 – Play with Phone Number Chooser Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the Phone Number Chooser task with Windows Phone development. With this task we can extract the phone number of a particular contact which the user selects to get the information. We can use this task in our application in cases like we need [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #26 – Play with Save Phone Number Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to make use of the Save Phone Number task in Windows Phone development. This task is something similar to the Save Email Address task which we have seen in our earlier tutorial, this task is also common that it will be used in our day [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #25 – Play with Save Email Address Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to make use of the Save Email Address task in Windows Phone development. This task is common that will be used in our day to day life, with this task we can save an email address on to a contact on the user selection. Basically [...]

Windows Phone Application – Announcing F5Debug App on Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:33:00 +0000

Friends I am happy to share the F5Debug application is available on Windows Phone. This application provides the www.F5debug.net complete article listing on to your windows phone. Application Download URL – http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/7c61caea-943d-4716-a436-29ba6f35a7bb Screen Shots: Please provide your valuable feedback on the app as well. Filed under: Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone App Tagged: [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #24 – Play with Photo Chooser Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to play with a Photo Chooser task, with this task if we are going to develop an application which requires adding some photo or images to the user inputs we will be using this task. Basically if the application requires to select some picture from [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #23 – Play with Save Contact Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the Save Contact task with Windows Phone Application development. In our earlier tutorials we have seen how to use the Address task and Email Address task to get the information of the contact, with this task we can create a contact from the [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #22 – Play with Camera Capture Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this article we are going to see how to make use of the Camera Capture Chooser task with Windows phone 7 application development. With this task we can provide an option to the end user to trigger the in built camera application and take a photo that can be used with in the application [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #21 – Play with Email Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to make use of the Email Address Chooser task in windows phone application development. In our previous articles we have seen on how to use the Address Chooser task which gets the address of the Selected contact by triggering an event. This task also works [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #20 – Play with Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 10 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

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 [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #19 – Play with Media Player Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

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. We can provide a list of media files that can be played [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #18 – Play with Bing Maps Directions Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use a Bing Maps Direction Task available in Windows Phone Application development. With this task we can find a shortest driving direction and distance route between 2 specific points or location based on the user inputs. Bing Maps Direction task uses Start and [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #17 – Play with Bing Maps Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use a Bing Maps task in a Windows Phone application. With this task we can launch the Bing Maps application and provide a location string to search and get the maps on to the specific location. If any search location is not specified [...]

Received Nokia Lumia 800 Device from Microsoft “I Unlock Joy” Program

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sun, 06 May 2012 08:44:49 +0000

Friends, Happy to share this. Yesterday I received a Windows Phone device (Nokia Lumia 800) from Microsoft as a claim for I unlock Joy program. Thanks to Microsoft for organizing this event and provide support for the developers to develop Windows Phone applications. I installed some of my applications developed and it looks really [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #16 – Play with MarketPlace Review Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to make use of MarketPlace Review Task, with this task we can get all the reviews of the application from which the task is triggered. Market Place Review task launches the Market Place client application and pulls the reviews for the application from which [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #15 – Play with MarketPlace Detail Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

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. Market Place Detail task opens the Market Place Client application and searched for the application to show the detail information on the application. If the [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #14 – Play with MarketPlace Search Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use the Market Place Search task in Windows Phone Development. With MarketPlace Search task we can provide an option to the end user to search the Windows Phone market place for some specified application or some specified music based on the search filter. [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #13 – Play with MarketPlace Hub Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use the Market Place Hub task, this task is used to launch the MarketPlace application on the device where we can specify the type of application (basically a category) from the market place. The content type can be of a music or application [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #12 – Play with ConnectionSettings Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:17:29 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to play around with the ConnectionSettings Launcher task with Windows Phone 7 Development. The Connection Setting Launcher task is one of the few Launchers available with Windows Phone to provide a unique user experience across the application in windows phone. With ConnectionSettings task we can [...]

Windows 8 Metro Apps Development Series – Part 1 – Overview and requirements for Metro Style Application Development

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:38:24 +0000

Welcome to the Windows 8 Metro Application Development Series, In this series we are going to start form the scratch and see how to develop applications on Windows 8 Platform which is basically Metro Styled Applications. This is the first of the series of articles on the Metro Application development on Windows 8 where [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #11 – Play with Web Browser Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:28:54 +0000

In this article we are going to see how to use the Web Browser task in Windows Phone application development. With Web Browser Task we can provide an option for the end user to launch the web browser application and specify a static or a dynamic URL based on the requirement. When using the [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #10 – Play with SMS Compose Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:41:02 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use a SMS Compose task to compose a Short Message and send it using the Short Messaging Services available over the network. SMS compose task first launches the Messaging application with the New Message window, we can play around with assigning the receipt [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #9 – Play with Share Status Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:35:48 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use a Share Status task in Windows Phone development. Share Status Task is one of the Launcher task available from a list of task provided inbuilt to have a unique look and feel for the applications developed with Windows Phone 7. With this task [...]

Kick Starting Windows 8 App Development series

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:09:55 +0000

Friends, Thanks for all your support and feedback on the successful series on Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 days. Now we are pleased to start with a series on Windows 8 Application development series which focuses mainly on the apps development using the new Windows 8 Consumer preview. Here in this series [...]

F5Debug First Anniversary Give Away worth $1999 – Telerik Ultimate License

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:30:00 +0000

As many of you guys know today April 20th 2012, F5debug celebrated its first anniversary (F5Debug Celebrating First Anniversary) with some milestones around. But the celebration is not fulfilled unless F5debug have some thing to give away to his most precious readers and followers who have supported and motivated F5debug in all the aspects. F5debug [...]

F5Debug Celebrating First Anniversary

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:30:27 +0000

Today April 20th 2012, last year the same day (April 20th 2011) I created this blog branding (www.f5debug.net) will key focus on consolidating all my findings into one place. Its been a year since I came across many things in my career which I have not got in the last 5 years of my professional [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #8 – Play with Share Link Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:24:10 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use a Share Link Task to share some links to the social networking. Most of the application developed are shared over the social network to reach the maximum audience, to share the application we provide the links to the most commonly used social [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #7 – Play with Search Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:49:09 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use the Search task available in Windows Phone development. Search Task is one of the type of Launcher available with the Windows Phone SDK, with Search Task we can provide a selected query to be searched over the web and provide the result [...]

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 – Part 10: Deploying the Application to APP Hub Marketplace

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how to deploy the developed Windows Phone 7 applications to the App Hub marketplace. App Hub is the place to distribute and merchandise the developed applications for Windows Phone 7. We need to register to the marketplace with a nominal fee of $99 and we [...]

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 – Part 9: Working with Application Bar in Windows Phone 7

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how to use the Application Bar to design a Windows Phone 7 application user experience in much more enhanced and rich design. Application Bar is a set of buttons available to provide users with quick access to the application tasks. Application Bar is provided at [...]

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 – Part 8: Working with Bing Map Control in Windows Phone 7

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:30:35 +0000

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how to work with a BING Map control, to load maps and customize the options provided with the control. In our earlier articles, you can have a quick look on how to start with the Windows Phone 7 application to get hands-on idea on what Windows [...]

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Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:10:44 +0000

Friends, Pluralsight is giving away Annual Subscription free every business day to a random winner who follow them (@pluralsight) in twitter. And to the surprise they also give away the New Ipad 3 to one random winner, to participate just follow pluralsight at twitter (@pluralsight). The winner will be announced by the pluralsight team in their blog and also [...]

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 – Part 7: Working with Isolated Storage in Windows Phone 7

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Introduction In this article, we are going to see what Isolated Storage is and how to use the storage in our Windows Phone 7 applications as and when required. Isolated storages are virtual space available with the windows phone 7 for the application to store and retrieve the files that are specifically required to operate [...]

F5debug Milestone – 100K Hits in a single Month(March 2012)

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:13:23 +0000

Friends, I am happy to share this, March 2012 was a very exciting month for F5debug. After completing a successful 31 days series on Learn Windows Phone 7 Development it was huge comments and feedbacks from the blog readers and followers and the result is shown here. F5debug blog got more that 100K hits (1 [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #6 – Play with Phone Call Task for Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:27:56 +0000

In this how to tutorial we are going to see how to use a Phone Call Task which providers users to launch the phone call from the application which we are going to develop. Basically we can use this Launcher (Check this article to get clear idea on What Launchers are and What are [...]

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 – Part 6: Consume WCF service with Windows Phone 7 Application

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how to consume a WCF Service on a Windows phone 7 Application. In our earlier articles, we have seen the different steps to create a sample Hello World Application using Visual Studio IDE. Here in this article, we will first create a WCF Service and [...]

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 – Part 5: Navigation between pages and passing data in Windows Phone 7

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how to navigate between the pages and the options to pass data between the pages. Navigation between the pages in Windows Phone 7 is most important. We need to pass some relative data based on the user’s selections to different pages and to manipulate the [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #5 – Play with Email Compose Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:27:19 +0000

In this how to tutorial we are going to see important and more useful task on composing an email using the Launchers that are available as part of the Windows Phone. To get some clear idea on Launchers and list of Launchers check this article on Working with Launchers in WP7. Email Compose Task [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #4 – Change Language Settings in Windows Phone Emulator

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:23:12 +0000

In this how to tutorial we are going to see how to change the language settings in Windows Phone Emulator while testing your region specific application developed based on the culture. By default we can see English as the language with the emulator, recently while I was working on a project had some requirement [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #3 – Create screenshots for Windows Phone market place

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:19:20 +0000

In this How to tutorial we are going to see how to create a screen shot to upload to Windows Phone Marketplace while publishing the application. Microsoft has some certification checklist which need to be passed before we upload the application to the market place. One of the certification passing procedure is the Screen [...]

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 – Part 4: Building and Deploying the Application to Windows Phone 7 Device and Emulator

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how to build the Window Phone to get the package (.XAP ) file and deploy the application to a device or to an emulator for testing the application before publishing it to the marketplace. For simplicity, we will take the sample project that we developed in [...]

Free Microsoft Ebook – Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:20:00 +0000

Friends, the final and complete version of Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012, by Ross Mistry (@RossMistry) and Stacia Misner (@StaciaMisner), is now ready as a free download! Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 includes 10 chapters: PART I DATABASE ADMINISTRATION (by Ross Mistry) 1. SQL Server 2012 Editions and Engine Enhancements 2. High-Availability and Disaster-Recovery Enhancements [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #2 – Customize Windows Phone Emulator Skins from default to Nokia Lumia 800 skin from Telerik

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:57:00 +0000

In this tutorial we will see how to Customize and change the default Windows Phone 7 Emulator skin to Nokia Lumia 800 skin available for download from Telerik. In our earlier article we have seen how to target the framework and the SDK that is required to build our application and deploy to windows phone. [...]

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 – Part 3 – Using Expression Blend to Design the Windows Phone 7 Application

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how to design our Windows Phone 7 user interface with Expression Blend to get a rich look for the end users. Expression Blend is a Microsoft suite of products used specifically to design the XAML applications with Rich User Interfaces. Expression Blend 4 for Windows [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #1 – Specify a target version for Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:29:00 +0000

Friends, Thanks for your continued support on the successful series on Learning Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 days, it was really nice to see the comments and feedback from the readers. Now we are going to see a series on 101 How to on Windows Phone 7 development. This series is going to be [...]