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

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 5 months, 29 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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Silverlight Page Navigation Framework - Learn about UriMapper(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 7 months, 13 days ago

Last day we discussed about “Silverlight Page Navigation Framework” where we understood the basic concept. We learnt how to add pages in the project from the template and the root of the page xaml. We also learnt about the assembly which we need to use to develop a navigation application using Silverlight. Today in this post, we will discuss about Uri Mapping which will help you to implement the navigation application very easily. You will also be able to hide the actual Url of the page. We will discuss about each point in brief with a simple example continuing from previous post. read more...

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Silverlight Page Navigation Framework - Basic Concept(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 7 months, 15 days ago

Let us start with a three days tutorial series on Silverlight Navigation Framework. Today in this post, we will discuss about Page Navigation Framework in Silverlight. Here we will learn what the Page is, how to kick start with navigation framework and details about this. This post will help to understand the basic knowledge of it. You will find it handy while developing your Silverlight application. Next two days, we will learn how to map a page URL and pass parameter to the page using a small and simple example. Continue reading to learn more about it. read more...

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Detecting System Information of WP7 Device(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 7 months, 19 days ago

Sometime we want to show the System Information to the user, whether it is an Application or a simple Game. We need to show those system specific information to the Windows Phone 7 user by using an System page. So, in such case, how will you fetch those information and show them to the user? Well, this post will help you to understand it and let you know about this data in Windows Phone 7 device. Read to learn more about this topic. read more...

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Silverlight 5 Toolkit - September 2011 Released(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 7 months, 21 days ago

Silverlight 5 Toolkit is now available in CodePlex site. This is the first version of Silverlight 5 Toolkit targeting Silverlight 5 RC build. This is also a first release of Silverlight Toolkit after April 2010. It took more than one year to release this bits. No Silverlight 4 toolkit available yet. In this post, I am going to share the downloadable location as well as the new components available in this release. Read to know more about them. read more...

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Know About WP7 Page Orientation and Supported Orientations(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 7 months, 21 days ago

The root class of the Windows Phone 7 page includes two attributes called “Orientation” and “SupportedOrientations”. Those are actually enum values and provides you option to set the orientation of your page programmatically. Today in this post we will describe about it in depth. If you are new to Windows Phone 7 programming, you will find this tip handy to understand about the page orientation on Phone page. Read to know more about this. read more...

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Monthly Summary - September 2011 - 26 Posts You May Want to Read(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 7 months, 26 days ago

During September 2011, we have seen a no. of product releases by Microsoft including Silverlight 5 RC, Expression Blend 5 Preview, Windows 8 Developer Preview, Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Final. It was a busy month, no doubt. I also did a no. of posts (26) in my blog which has 15 articles. In this post, I am going to share all the posts submitted here in my blog as separate category. This will help you to find out the proper post that you are searching in my blog. read more...

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Download Windows Phone 7.1 SDK RTW (All Language Web/Offline Installer(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 7 months, 28 days ago

Microsoft released Windows Phone 7.1 SDK tools yesterday, 28th September 2011. It’s in RTW release, that means, it is released to web. Cliff Simpkins announced the release of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 in Windows Team Blog. In this post, find the link to download the RTW version of Windows Phone 7.1 SDK (Mango) which includes both the web and standalone offline installer for all separate languages. read more...

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What is Frame Rate Counter in WP7?(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 7 months, 28 days ago

While working with Windows Phone 7 emulator, you might noticed that, in debug mode it shows some numeric values at the right side of the screen. So, what are those values and why that numeric bar is available in debug mode? The bar represents numeric values for Frame Rates to debug Memory usage by your WP7 application. In this post, we will briefly discuss on this topic. Read further to learn more about this Frame Rate Counter. read more...

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Know About WP7 System Tray - Tips to Show or Hide it(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 7 months, 29 days ago

In Windows Phone 7, the System Tray is the small bar across the top of the screen in Portrait mode. It displays the Signal strength, Current time and Wi-Fi connection strength. In this post, we will learn more about Windows Phone 7 System Tray. It is easy to write code to show or hide the tray. We will use a small demo to demonstrate it. read more...

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Why my WP7 Emulator is not opening?(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 8 months ago

Are you facing any issue deploying your Windows Phone 7 application in the emulator or, are you facing any issue while opening the Windows Phone 7 emulator? Is it stating some System Error while finding “MFPlat.dll”? If you are facing the similar issue, this post will help you. Do bookmark this post and share to others, so that, if anyone is facing the same will resolve it easily. In this post, I will tell you the background of the issue and the solution to fix this problem. If you have any other alternative, do share it here and help the other person. Read more to find out the issue and it’s solution. read more...

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Solution for “Tool makepri.exe cannot be found. Please install Windows(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 8 months, 3 days ago

In Windows 8 if you installed Visual Studio 11 separately, you may notice the error “Tool makepri.exe cannot be found. Please install Windows Modern SDK” while building Metro Style Windows application. What is that and how to resolve this issue? In this post I will discuss about this issue and will also give you the solution. If you are facing the similar issue, read to find out more. read more...

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Step-by-Step Tutorial to Setup Windows8 in VMWare(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 8 months, 3 days ago

In this article, I will guide you to setup a Windows 8 Virtual Machine in VMWare environment. Just follow the steps mentioned here and you will be done with the installation. I will use the 32bit Windows 8 Developer Preview ISO image to mount for the installation step. If you have bootable drive, you can directly use that. The step-by-step process will show you creation of new Virtual Machine and then the installation of Windows 8 Developer Preview version in the VM. Read the complete post to find out more. read more...

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How to Setup Sprint or Iterations in a Telerik TeamPulse Project?(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 8 months, 8 days ago

Last day we discussed on project creation in TeamPulse team management solution. If you didn’t yet read it, follow this post here: “How to Create a New Telerik TeamPulse Project?” where we discussed the project creation step-by-step. Today in this article, we will use that project and will show you how to create Sprints/Iterations inside your TeamPulse project, so that, you can plan your sprint/iteration properly for your team. In the next article, we will learn how to use iterations and add stories for each sprint. Let’s discuss on the iteration creation and deletion of it in depth. read more...

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Download ISO / Offline Installer of Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 8 months, 8 days ago

Visual Studio 11 provides an integrated development experience that spans the entire lifecycle of software creation from architecture to code creation, testing and beyond. This release adds support for Windows 8 and HTML 5, enabling you to target platforms across devices, services and the cloud. Find the link to download the standalone/offline installer (ISO) of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. read more...

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Download Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (MSDN and Public)(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 8 months, 10 days ago

Microsoft released Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview to the developer community. First they released it for the MSDN subscriber that means, it was available only for MSDN subscribers till the date it was announced. Now it is available for general public. You can now download it and start exploring the features. You can also start developing Windows 8 applications using this IDE. In this post, I am going to share you the links for both MSDN and general public download. Grab it and start exploring. read more...

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