Windows Phone and PhoneGap - Article #2 - Installing PhoneGap(windowsphonerocks.com)

submitted by isenthil(2309) 5 months, 2 days ago

The Installation of PhoneGap is pretty simple and infact its just about copying the files to the Visual Studio template folder to kick start your Windows Phone Development using PhoneGap .... read more...

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap - Article #1 - Introduction (windowsphonerocks.com)

submitted by isenthil(2309) 5 months, 3 days ago

With the recent release of PhoneGap 1.3 that includes full Windows Phone 7 support , it looks like we got another way to develop Windows Phone App but using HTML5 and PhoneGap . In the current and the next few posts , i will explain how the Windows Phone 7 Developers can use PhoneGap t... read more...

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WriteableBitmapEx 1.0 Coming Soon, Test it Now!(kodierer.blogspot.com)

submitted by teichgraf(615) 5 months, 6 days ago

The upcoming release of the WriteableBitmapEx library 1.0 will be easier portable and have full maintained WPF support. read more...

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Free Whitepaper: How to Promote Your Windows Phone App(www.telerik.com)

submitted by maggieto(99) 5 months, 6 days ago

You’ve built your WP7 app, uploaded it on the marketplace and now you are probably out of your comfort zone wondering what comes next? What should you do to get your download numbers up? Most probably you do not have a marketer at your disposal or an advertising budget. read more...

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SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone(www.silverlightshow.net)

submitted by KMillerr(2072) 5 months, 7 days ago

In this article, we talk about how to leverage the new Live Connect APIs, in particular, the Live SDK in our Windows Phone applications. We'll see the usage of the Sign-in control to ask for user’s authentication & seeking permission to use specific resources through the Live API. SkyDrive access is now handy, with full support to traverse, read & manipulate content in user’s SkyDrive directories. read more...

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Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone (windowsphonerocks.com)

submitted by isenthil(2309) 5 months, 9 days ago

Windows Phone SDK provides the chooser "AddressChooserTask" that enables the users to retreive the physical address of the selected contact.. read more...

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7 WP7 dev tools you might not know but will want to have(timdams.wordpress.com)

submitted by timdams(119) 5 months, 13 days ago

There’s an incredible amount of guides, tools and utilities to be found on the Internet (or should I say ‘tha cloud’?) for Windows Phone 7 developers. Compiled in this article are some of the tools I’ve come across on my searches which I now use frequently but didn’t know the existence of beforehand. Read on to change you WP7 development life. read more...

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Update Status with ShareStatusTask in Windows Phone(windowsphonerocks.com)

submitted by isenthil(2309) 5 months, 15 days ago

If you wish to share a status from your App to Facebook , Twitter or LinkedIn in Windows Phone , you can use the ShareStatusTask to achieve it . The ShareStatusTask is a launcher that enables the user to update the status message on the social networking sites on Windows Phone . read more...

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You cant do this using PhoneCallTask in Windows Phone (windowsphonerocks.com)

submitted by isenthil(2309) 5 months, 18 days ago

Today , i was trying to enable the call waiting feature using the Service Code *43# . Read How to enable call waiting in Windows Phone 7 article ? I was able to enable it by manually dialing the service code and tried to achieve the same via PhoneCallTask in Windows Phone . read more...

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Learning to cook with WP 7.5 data (a book review)(timdams.wordpress.com)

submitted by timdams(119) 5 months, 18 days ago

Recently I received a review copy of the “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” by Ramesh Thalli from Packt Publishing (ISBN 978-1-84969-122-2). This book, divided in 8 chapters, shows how simple it is to write data-driven programs WP7 applications.Read on for an extensive review. read more...

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Creating a WP7 app: Listbox items of the same width(timdams.wordpress.com)

submitted by timdams(119) 5 months, 18 days ago

A recap of the problems that exists when creating a windows phone 7 listbox in which all the items need to have the same size. read more...

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Windows Phone Sites Around the World(kodierer.blogspot.com)

submitted by teichgraf(615) 5 months, 21 days ago

This post contains a list of international and regional Windows Phone news sites focused on consumers. This list could be useful if a developer plans to release a localized version of an app and want to promote it a bit. read more...

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Windows Phone 7.5 - Use Background agents(www.silverlightshow.net)

submitted by KMillerr(2072) 5 months, 21 days ago

One of the most important features added in Windows Phone 7.5 is the multithreaded environment. This missing feature was very criticized in the previous version, but the main reason of its lack was the high battery consumption that is usual in multithread phones. In this release the team has agreed to add the multithread capability but it worked hard to reach a good balance between multithreading and battery life. This is the main reason for the introduction of Background Agents that are a way to manage the battery drain in junction with parallel work made by running applications. read more...

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Marketplace ReviewTask in Windows Phone (windowsphonerocks.com)

submitted by isenthil(2309) 5 months, 22 days ago

The Windows Phone SDK includes the launcher "MarketplaceReviewTask" that launches the Windows Phone Marketplace client App and shows the review page for the current Application read more...

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How can you Add Network Connection Settings Page in your WP7 App(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 5 months, 28 days ago

Do you want to integrate the network connection settings page (like: Airplane, Bluetooth, Cellular and/or WiFi) in your Windows Phone 7 application? Then this article will help you step-by-step to understand and integrate it. Connection Settings page are those, where you can configure your connection types and various parameters of the connection. Windows Phone 7 SDK exposes the APIs for you to integrate them in your application. In this tutorial, we will discuss about these with a nice demo. Read further to know about these settings page and integration steps to the application. read more...

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Windows Phone 7.5 - Play with music(www.silverlightshow.net)

submitted by KMillerr(2072) 6 months, 2 days ago

If you get the Windows Phone "Mango" update on your phone, and you are use to listen to music on your phone, you have for sure noticed some improvements in the music capabilities of the phone. Since the release of the OS7.0, the music hub is an important application that is able to integrate with the Zune marketplace and enable download and listen of music on the phone. read more...

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