How to Create Splash Screen in Windows Phone?
Splash Screen makes your App look good when it is loading initially. It might be a good idea to have a splash screen especially for the apps that takes some time to load. How to Create Splash Screen in Windows Phone? You can create Splash Screen in Windows Phone in [...]
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Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #7 – Using Custom Objects in RadAutoCompleteBox
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 to the RadAutoCompleteBox and had to take help of the Telerik Support Team to get [...]
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How to display Suggestions in ‘on screen keyboard’ for a textbox in Windows Phone app?
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. Similarly, we can display the suggestions for a textbox in the on screen keyboard [...]
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Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #6 – RadAutoCompleteBox
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 . To add the RadAutoCompleteBox to your Windows Phone App , you [...]
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Is this Windows Phone Calculator Bug ?
Just noticed one of the error in Windows Phone Calculator when performing an calculation … Below are steps to reproduce this 1. Open the Windows Phone Calculator and switch to the LandScape view. Read more about Is this Windows Phone Calculator Bug ? @windowsphonerocks.com
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Double Wide Tiles in Windows Phone
If you noticed the Windows Phone start screen , you will find that there are few double wide tiles there . These include Calender Pictures HTC Weather App Tile ( HTC Phones ) if installed . One of the tiles that provides double wide tiles when Read more about Double [...]
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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 [...]
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Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #4 – UnKnown Namespace Error
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 [...]
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How to retreive the TimeZone programatically in Windows Phone ?
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 Chennai,Kolkatta,Mumbai,New Delhi” on my Windows Phone that was set via the “Set automatically” option. Read more about How to retreive the [...]
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Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #3 – Invisible Events Tab issue in the Properties Window
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. [...]
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Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #2 – How to add controls to Visual Studio 2010 toolbox ?
If you have installed the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone and could not see the controls in the Visual Studio 2010 , here’s a tip to get the controls in the Visual Studio 2010 toolbox. 1. Add a new Tab in Visual Studio and name it “Telerik RadControls” Read more [...]
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Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #1 – Introduction and Installation
RadControls for WP7 from Telerik enables the Windows Phone developers to create beautiful and powerful Windows Phone Apps easily. RadControls for Windows Phone offers additional controls and its capabilities for the Windows Phone 7 development. These controls includes Read more about Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #1 – [...]
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Scheduling Notification in Windows Phone – Reminders
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #14 – Detect Hardware back button press
The default behaviour of the hardware back button in Windows Phone is to close the current application and go back to the previous App or screen that was launched prior to lauching this App . In Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight or XAML App ) , you can detect the hardware [...]
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #13 – Retreive Picture from Windows Phone Picture Library
In my previous blog post , i wrote about the PhoneGap API to take picture via Camera in Windows Phone . The navigator.camera.getPicture method was used to take picture via Camera in Windows Phone and the same function can be used to retreive the picture from the Windows Phone Picture [...]
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #12 – Take picture via Camera in Windows Phone
The PhoneGap provides the Camera.getPicture method that lets the user to take photo using the camera in Windows Phone . Infact , its the camera object that provides access to the Windows Phone Camera in PhoneGap … To open the Windows Phone’s camera to take the picture , just call [...]
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #11 – Make a Phone Call – Part 1
In this blog post , i will show you a simple trick to make a phone call to a number using PhoneGap . If you are developing App using silverlight framework in Windows Phone SDK , we can make use of the PhoneCallTask to make a call in Windows Phone [...]
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #10 – Beep sound
Well , this is something simple which can be done in 1 line of code if you are using PhoneGap for Windows Phone . If you are using Windows Phone SDK and developing App in Silverlight or XNA , you might end up using the SoundEffect class to load [...]
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #9 – Handling Orientation – Part 1
If you have noticed the PhoneGap Windows Phone Project , you will find a MainPage.XAML page where the PhoneGap runs . By Default , the Windows Phone Silverlight Application runs in the Portrait mode . To support the Windows Phone PhoneGap application to support both the orientation ( Portrait [...]
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #8 – Retreive Device Information
The Windows Phone SDK provides the DeviceStatus class to retreive the Device specific information like DeviceFirmwareVersion DeviceHardwareVersion DeviceManufacturer DeviceName and more… Read more about Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #8 – Retreive Device Information @ WindowsPhoneRocks.com
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #7 – Check for Network Connections
If you want to find out the connection information of your Windows Phone using PhoneGap you can use the connection object . The navigator.network.connection.type – lets the developers know about the currrent device’s connection states and in simple terms lets you know the type of connection , your Windows Phone [...]
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #6 – Make your WP7 Vibrate
The Windows Phone SDK in Silverlight provides the class VibrateController which the developer can make use of it to vibrate the phone . All that the developer has to do is create an instance of the VibrateController and call the start method with the timespan . Read more about Windows [...]
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #5 – Displaying MessageBox in PhoneGap – Part 2
In my previous post , i explained about displaying MessageBox in Windows Phone using PhoneGap that had only the OK button . In this blog post , i will show you how to create a MessageBox with confirmation ( OK and Cancel ) using PhoneGap . If you were doing [...]
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #4 – Displaying MessageBox in PhoneGap – Part 1
The PhoneGap API provides the method “notification.alert” to display the alert or message box to the end user in the Windows Phone App . For example , if you want to display the messagebox on the click of the button , include the following Read more @ WindowsPhoneRocks.com
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #3 – No Script Engine Error
This was one of the errors that i received when compiling my first Windows Phone Application using PhoneGap . The description of the error message was “There is no script engine for file extension “.js”” Read more @ WindowsPhoneRocks.com
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #2 – Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started
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 . One of the Prerequisite to install the PhoneGap is the Operating System . PhoneGap requires Windows 7 or Windows [...]
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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #1 – Introduction
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 [...]
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Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone
Windows Phone SDK provides the chooser “AddressChooserTask” that enables the users to retreive the physical address of the selected contact . To use the Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone , follow the below steps 1. Add the namespace Microsoft.Phone.Tasks 2. Create an instance of the AddressChooserTask Read More @ [...]
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You cant do this using PhoneCallTask in Windows Phone
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 [...]
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Context Menu in Windows Phone
The Context menu is part of the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone controls which can be downloaded from the codeplex site When the user holds down on a item / panel / control fro few seconds , a pop up menu is opened which shows some options .. One of [...]
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