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Download free eBook - Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App

Mon, 28 May 2012 16:48:21 GMT

Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud book is a PDF version of the online guidance "Developing an

Offline Browser for Windows Phone is released

Mon, 28 May 2012 07:02:48 GMT

I'm an old information junkie and while traveling to work i like reading books and surfing the web, but often i don't have internet connection or its very slow (for example when I'm in the subway). Although there are many excellent E-Book readers for Windows Phone (one of the best is for sure Freda) i could not find a single offline internet web browser that would allow me to save full content of web pages to my phone and read them later when I'm offline. This is how idea for Offline Browser for Windows Phone was born.

Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone - Article #8 - RadHubTile

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:07:24 GMT

The RadHubTile control which is a part of the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone suite brings the Windows Phone home screen experience to your App .

How to find if the Application is returning from Dormant or Tombstoned

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:42:27 GMT

Windows Phone Mango, when the App is deactivated, it puts the App into the dormant state. This state provides the Fast Switching support

How to find if an Windows Phone App is installed from Marketplace ?

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:38:51 GMT

Today , i was testing one of my Windows Phone App and ended up verifying the wrong version . Infact ,

WP7 sports application with Apache Cordova, jQM Metro and ESPN API

Wed, 02 May 2012 21:00:41 GMT

Build a sports mobile application for Windows Phone 7 using Apache Cordova (PhoneGap), jQuery Mobile Metro and ESPN API. Full source included. App can be packaged for iPhone and Droid as well.

How to Create Splash Screen in Windows Phone ?

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:28:45 GMT

Splash Screen makes your App look good when it is loading initially . It might be a good idea to have a splash screen specially for the apps that takes some time to load. How to Create Splash Screen in Windows Phone ?

Cause for Concern - Piracy on Windows Phone 7 - Diary Of A Ninja

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:04:22 GMT

There are many developers have bet a considerable amount of their time on the Windows Phone 7 platform to date. Whether these developers are aware of it or not they are fighting a silent battle that I want to bring more awareness to - a problem that every smart phone ecosystem has faced to date: Piracy.

Telerik RadControls for WP7 - RadAutocomplete- Using Custom Objects -

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:28:41 GMT

In one of my earlier blog post , i explained about RadAutoCompleteBox showing how to display suggestions using a List of string . I had a requirement to bind custom object to the Suggestion List

Writing a WP7 website scraper application

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:28:36 GMT

This tutorial explains how to write a WP7 application using the HtmlAgility Pack in order to use information scraped from a website.

Filtering collections from XAML using CollectionViewSource

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:37:29 GMT

I find that I often run into the need of separating a collection of items into several collections just so I can bind them to multiple listboxes, for example a list of sessions spanning several tracks and each track is shown in his own listbox in a pivotitem. To get this done you can start by adding multiple collections to your viewmodel and divide the items there. However this makes your viewmodel very big in a very short time. A better way to do this is using CollectionViewSource items in XAML. Let me show you how.

How to display Suggestions in 'on screen keyboard' in WP App ?

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:25:52 GMT

In the standard Windows Phone functions like messaging or Email App, when you enter a text, you will see the list of suggestions for the text you are typing in the top of on screen keyboard.

Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone - RadAutoCompleteBox

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:47:57 GMT

RadAutoCompleteBox is a Autocomplete textbox that is part of the RadControls for Windows Phone . The RadAutoCompleteBox provides a textbox along with additional functionality of providing the suggestion based on the characters the user types in the textbox .

Is this Windows Phone Calculator Bug ?

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:27:45 GMT

Just noticed one of the error in Windows Phone Calculator when performing an calculation . Below are steps to reproduce this

Telerik Sample Apps, Resources and Giveaways for Windows Phone Dev.

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:03:14 GMT

Telerik Sample Apps, Resources and Giveaways for Windows Phone Developers Recently, I have started using the Telerik's RadControls for Windows Phone for my personal projects as well as started writing blog articles on them too. The RadControls for Windows Phone is simple to use and provides rich set of functionalities to develop windows phone App easily. RadControls for Windows Phone is built from the ground up for the Windows Phone Operating System and includes large number of controls and its capabiliti...

Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: Part 1

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:13:23 GMT

During the course of developing the SilverlightShow Windows Phone application, we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the experiences with the SilverlightShow readers, because it is a nice example of discussing a real-world application, with real-world problems (and solutions :)). The idea of this mini-series of articles was born, where you will discover both details about the development process as well as some technical challenges we came across. This first part will deal with the process itself, so prepare for some more text and less code (read: no code) than usual.

WP7: creating theme (in-)dependent images

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:03:10 GMT

An "accent" on images, phone themes and overlay masks

Consume JSON with Windows Phone: a seamless solution

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:34:20 GMT

One of the growing needs of these days, is the requirements of exposing services that are available to multiple platforms. This request come obviously from the increasing availability of a number of mobile platforms that is forcing companies to adopt strategies to decrease the complexity and use technologies that are able to respect the verb "write once and use everywhere".

Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone - Article #5 - RadRating Control

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:44:22 GMT

Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone - Article #5 - RadRating - Rating Control Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone provides the RadRating , a rating control that enables the developers to implement the rating mechanism in their Windows Phone Application . The RadRating control allows the user to rate something by tapping and selecting the value from the range of values . To add the RadRating control to your Windows Phone Page , Just drag and drop the RadRating Control from the Visual Studio Toolbox to...

WP7: Localization and binding to string resources

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:49:21 GMT

A straightforward way to bind to string resources in a Windows Phone 7 application and a little hack to bypass a well known misbehavior of PublicResXFileCodeGenerator tool.

Recording of Webinar 'Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers'

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:03:45 GMT

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on February 28th, 2012. Slides and demos also available! Webinar summary: With the release of Windows Phone 7 Mango, a lot of extra features were added to the platform. One of the most anticipated ones is the possibility to create code that runs in the background. This way, applications can perform tasks such as polling a service, updating a live tile and much more. It's also possible to create audio agents that allow you to build media players that can play audio without the app on the foreground. In this webinar, we'll do a deep dive on all options we get to do background processing in WP7 Mango.

Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone - Article #4 - UnKnown Namespace

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:02:48 GMT

If you are getting the similar "UnKnown Namespace " Error like the one shown in the screenshot below when using the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone , then it might be because of the wrong namespace being declared in the PhoneApplicationPage. The type 'RadRating' was not found because 'http://schemas.telerik.com/windowsphone' is an unknown namespace.

How to retreive the TimeZone programatically in Windows Phone ?

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:01:50 GMT

The Windows Phone users can set the time zone via the Settings -> Datetime Form in the Windows Phone. By default , the time zone was "UTC +05:30

Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone -Article #3 Invisible Events Tab

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:43:41 GMT

Today, when I was working with the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone, I noticed that for all the controls and pages, the Events tab was invisible in the Properties Window. I was unable to trigger the event for example "Click" event of the Button in the Visual Studio Designer. This issue existed only with the RadControls Windows Phone

Byte Array To BitmapImage Converter For Windows Phone Silverlight

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:20:05 GMT

While you are binding a byte array of an image file to a Image control in WPF, it displays the image without