Windows Phone 7 Coding

Mango Sample: Detect Theme

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:57:58 GMT

A Mango sample on how to detect the current theme, by Jerry Nixon.

Developing with Mango - HubTiles

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:45:42 GMT

The latest release of the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone, has given developers a brilliant new control called the HubTile. This control allows you to create tiles similar to the groups in the People Hub.

http://bit.ly/q8mGAy

7 Mistakes Developers make when implementing Windows Phone Custom Controls

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:51:22 GMT

http://bit.ly/qP1KOn

How To: Generate a custom live tile directly on the phone

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:10:35 GMT

http://bit.ly/p2hsdd

Using secondary shell tiles on Windows Phone with the 7.1 SDK

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:59:58 GMT

http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/using-secondary-shell-tiles

Windows Phone 7 Dev Tips - Error Reporting

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:45:05 GMT

Exception reporting class for Windows Phone 7, called "LittleWatson".

http://bugail.com/index.php/2011/07/wp7-dev-tips-error-reporting/

QR code scanning on Windows Phone 7.5 using ZXlib

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:35:00 GMT

Jonas Follesø demonstrates how you can combine ZXing and the Mango PhotoCamera API to implement a QR scanner in less than 150 lines of user code.

http://bit.ly/qVop0q

Facebook in a Windows Phone 7 App

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:03:31 GMT

In this post Nick Randolph writes about Facebook’s OAuth 2.0 implementation and how you can post status updates back to Facebook from within your Windows Phone application.

http://buildmobile.com/facebook-in-a-windows-phone-7-app/

Creating a global ProgressIndicator experience using the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta 2

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:17:58 GMT

http://bit.ly/pBH63e

Using Ninject (with CommonServiceLocator) with Caliburn.Micro on Windows Phone 7

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:13:54 GMT

http://bit.ly/oJy0hR

Using DPAPI with Isolated Storage In Windows Phone 7 Mango Release

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:46:57 GMT

http://bit.ly/micieU

Windows Phone 7.1: Where is INotifiyPropertyChanging defined?

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:19:34 GMT

A heads up if you’re trying to work with SQL CE, a new feature included in the 7.1 SDK, for the 1st time. According to the documentation INotifyPropertyChanging is defined in System.dll, which is incorrect. It’s located in mscorlib.Extensions.dll.

http://blog.clauskonrad.net/2011/05/wp771-where-is-inotifiypropertychanging.html

DataContext.Log and Windows Phone

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Sat, 28 May 2011 21:59:08 GMT

John Gallardo shows how to wrap Debug.WriteLine() in your own TextWriter implementation, to output the generated LINQ to SQL queries in debug output window.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jgalla/archive/2011/05/27/datacontext-log-and-windows-phone.aspx

SLARToolkit for Windows Phone (Mango)

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:23:36 GMT

“SLARToolkit is a flexible marker-based Augmented Reality library for Silverlight and Windows Phone with the aim to make real time Augmented Reality applications with Silverlight as easy and fast as possible. It can be used with Silverlight's Webcam API or with any other CaptureSource, WriteableBitmap or with the Windows Phone's PhotoCamera. SLARTookit is based on the established NyARToolkit and ARToolkit.”

http://kodierer.blogspot.com/2011/05/augmented-mango-slartoolkit-for-windows.html

Using Perspective Transforms inside ListBox ItemTemplate

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:50:58 GMT

Using Perspective Transforms inside ListBox ItemTemplate, to make 2D content appear as if it's drawn on a 3D plane.

http://bit.ly/iWNKm0

RefreshBox for Windows Phone 7

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:14:43 GMT

A control which will fetch the latest updates from a data source when you pull and release it, once reaching the top of a list, as seen in iPhone apps.

http://bit.ly/fzqKko

Windows Phone 7 Async CTP sample code

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:58:36 GMT

Giorgetti Alessandro shows how he improved his async code by using the Async CTP. As you can see the order of execution is much more easy to follow and it makes the code easier to read.

http://www.primordialcode.com/blog/post/wpf-silverlight-wp7-async-ctp

Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:56:45 GMT

Controls:

About Prompt
Input Prompt
Progress Overlay
Round Button
Round Toggle Button
Memory Counter
Message Prompt
Password Prompt
TimeSpan Picker
Toast Prompt

Abstract Classes:

PopUp class for things like an Input Prompt that can be GPU accelerated unlike the built in Popup control.

Converters:

Boolean to Visibility
String To Visibility
Themed Image Converter
Inversed Theme Image Converter
Visibility to Boolean

Binding Helpers:

Textbox update
Example:

Data Helpers:

PhoneHelper for getting data out of the WMAppManifest file
Example: PhoneHelper.GetAppAttribute("Title")

http://coding4fun.codeplex.com/

Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:19:01 GMT

“The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 is designed to make it easier for you to build mobile applications that leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure. The toolkit includes Visual Studio project templates for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure, class libraries optimized for use on the phone, sample applications, and documentation.”

http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/

Phoney Tools

trydis@hotmail.com (Administrator) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:43:15 GMT

A project by Shawn Wildermuth that contains several classes and controls for use with Windows Phone 7 applications.

Controls

FadingMessage class
SelectSwitch Control
SimpleLongListSelector Control
ClearableTextbox Control

Helpers

BitlyHelper class
GravatarHelper class
InstaPaperHelper class
InputScopeHelper class
EnumHelper class

Other Classes

GameTimer class
InputPanelProvider
MD5Managed class
MicrophoneRecorder class
ObservableObject class
Phone Resources classes
PhoneNetworking class
PhoneLogger class
SoundEffectPlayer class
ObstructionDetector class

Converters

DateTimeConverter
MoneyConverter
NullVisibilityConverter
StringCaseConverter
StringFormatConverter
UnHtmlConverter
VisibilityConverter

http://wildermuth.com/2011/04/11/Phoney_Tools_1_0_Released!