Alignment Grid Overlay for Windows Phone Projects in Visual Studio 2012
When you create a new Windows Phone Project in Visual Studio 2012 , you can observe that in the end of the MainPage.XAML , there is a comment which states the following <!–Uncomment to see an alignment grid to help ensure your controls are aligned on common boundaries. The image [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7 Tags: Alignment Grid Overlay, Visual Studio 2012, Windows Phone
Windows Phone Page Alignment Grid in Visual Studio 2012
You can easily align the content as well as the spacing between the elements when developing the Windows Phone apps in Visual Studio 2012 . Windows Phone Page Alignment Grid in Visual Studio 2012 The feature called “Alignment Grid” which was available in Expression Blend and is now available in [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7 Tags: Grid, Page Alignment, Visual Studio 2012, Windows Phone
How to find out the Space in isolated storage in Windows Phone?
How to find out the Space in isolated storage in Windows Phone? The IsolatedStorageFile class in Windows Phone provides the methods that indicate the amount of space (free/total space) for isolated storage. The IsolatedStorageFile class has the following members Read more about How to find out the Space in isolated [...]
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MoqaLate – Mocking Framework for Windows Phone
MoqaLate – Mocking Framework for Windows Phone MoqaLate is a free Mocking Framework for Windows Phone and is available for download from CodePlex. MoqaLate is currently in Alpha, but is usable now. MoqaLate generates mocks from any interfaces. Read more about MoqaLate – Mocking Framework for Windows Phone here
Categories: WP News Tags: Mocking Framework, MoqaLate, Windows Phone
5 Analytics API for Windows Phone Apps
5 Analytics API for Windows Phone Apps Do you want to keep track of the App statistics, analyze the most frequently used pages or features in your Windows Phone App ? If yes, below are 5 different Analytics API for Windows Phone Apps. 1. Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Microsoft Silverlight [...]
Categories: WP News Tags: Analytics API, How to, tips, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 8
How to Encrypt Data in Windows Phone using Data Protection API?
How to Encrypt Data in Windows Phone using Data Protection API? If you are a Windows Phone Developer and deal with some sensitive data like passwords etc., you can utilize the Data Protection API that is part of the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK. One of the interesting aspects of the [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: Data Protection API, Encrypt Data, Windows Phone
How to Set Clipboard text (Copy Paste) programmatically in Windows Phone?
How to Set Clipboard text (Copy Paste) programmatically in Windows Phone? If you have to set the Clipboard text programmatically in your Windows Phone, you can use the Clipboard Class that is defined in the System.Windows Namespace. Clipboard is a static class that exposes 3 properties 1. ContainsText 2. GetText [...]
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Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #8 – RadHubTile
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. The hub tile or live tiles provides the tile behaviors like animations, update of data on tiles etc. To add the RadHubTile to your Windows [...]
Categories: How To's, Windows Phone 7 Tags: RadControls, RadHubTile, Telerik, Windows Phone
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 [...]
Categories: How To's, Windows Phone 7 Tags: create, Splash Screen, Windows Phone
Webinar – How to design Windows Phone applications with Expression Blend
Here’s a webinar on Windows Phone which is part of Nokia Developer Webinars and is scheduled to be held on May 22 , 2012 ( Indian Time). The topic for this session is “How to design Windows Phone applications with Expression Blend” . Read more about Webinar – How to [...]
Categories: Others Tags: Expression Blend, Webinar, Windows Phone
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 [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: RadAutoCompleteBox, Telerik, Windows Phone
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 [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: App, keyboard, textbox, Windows Phone
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 [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: RadAutoCompleteBox, RadControls, Telerik, Windows Phone
Is this Windows Phone App statistics Real ?
When i logged in to my AppHub account, I was surprised or rather shocked to see something in my AppHub Dashboard. It was the number of downloads for the Apps that i submitted to the Windows Phone Marketplace. I had submitted 3 Apps Read more about Is this Windows Phone [...]
Categories: WP App News Tags: App, statistics, Windows Phone
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
Categories: How To's Tags: bug, Calculator, Windows Phone
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 [...]
Categories: Others Tags: Giveaways, RadControls, Telerik, Windows Phone
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 #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 [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: Namespace, Telerik, Windows Phone
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 [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: timezone, Windows Phone
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. [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: RadControls, Telerik, Windows Phone
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 [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: RadControls, Telerik, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone
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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Webinar – What’s New in Mobile – RadControls for Windows Phone
Telerik is organising a webinar on the topic “What’s New in Mobile – RadControls for Windows Phone” on February 21, 2012 12:30 – 1:30 PM EST ( 23.00 PM IST ) as a part of the Q1 2012 release. Webinar – What’s New in Mobile – RadControls for Windows [...]
Categories: Events Tags: RadControls, Windows Phone
Scheduling Notification in Windows Phone – Reminders
Share Email Earn FacebookTwitterGoogle+Lockerz GrabDeliciousDiggGoogle BookmarksMySpaceStumbleUponRedditMessengerVodpodYahoo BookmarksBeboMister-WongWordPressGoogle ReaderOrkutXINGEvernoteNetvibes ShareStrandsPosterousBusiness ExchangeArtoTipdSmakNewsPlurkAIMYahoo MessengerIdenti.caMozillacaBlogger PostTypePad PostBox.netPinterestNetlogTechnorati FavoritesCiteULikeJumptagsHemidemiFunPInstapaperPhoneFavsXerpiNetvouzWinkDiigoBibSonomyBlogMarksTailrankStartAidKledyKhabbrMeneameYoolinkBookmarks.frTechnotizieNewsVineMultiplyFriendFeedPlaxo PulsePingSquidooProtopage BookmarksBlinklistFavesYiGGWebnewsSegnaloPushaYouMobSlashdotFarkAllvoicesJamespotImera BrazilTwiddlaLinkaGoGounalogHuggDiglogNowPublicTumblrLiveJournalCurrentHelloTxtSpurlYampleOneviewLinkatopiaSimpyLinkedInBuddyMarksAsk.com MyStuffViadeoMapleWistsConnoteaBackflipMyLinkVaultSiteJotSphinnDZoneCare2 NewsHyvesSphereBitty BrowserGabbrSymbaloo FeedsTagzaFolkdNewsTrustAmazon Wish ListPrintFriendlyRead It LaterTuentiEmailRediff MyPage Google GmailYahoo MailHotmailAOL MailAny email By Lockerz In Windows Phone, one can display the Scheduling Notification dialog box using Alarm Reminders The Scheduling Notification [...]
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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 [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: back button, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
Microsoft OneNote for Android
Microsoft has released OneNote Mobile for Android which is now available for download from Android Marketplace. Microsoft Word , Excel , PowerPoint and OneNote has become close part of the Microsoft Office Suite. The Mobile version of the Microsoft OneNote is now available for the following platforms Windows Phone iPhone [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, iPhone, Microsoft, OneNote, Windows Phone
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 [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: PhoneGap, Picture, Windows Phone
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 [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: Camera, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
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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