What’s wrong with this WP7 Code ?
Here’s a sample code that i was trying for databinding the AutoCompleteBox in Windows Phone 7 . I was trying to bind a custom object to the AutoCompleteBox and ended up looking at the code for nearly 30 mins to figure out why the suggestion was not displaying . It [...]
Categories: How To's Tags: AUtoCompleteBox, SilverlightToolkit, WP7
Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator Skin from Telerik
The Telerik’s Marketing Team in its Blog announces the release of Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator Skin which skins your Windows Phone Emulator in the smoking hot black or white Nokia Lumia skin . If you are already a Telerik Customer , you should find the download in your Account . [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: Emulator, Nokia Lumia, Skin, Telerik, WP7
Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone v1.3.1 Released
Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone v1.3.1 is now released and available for download in the codeplex site The current version 1.3.1 download size is about 52445KB and includes some of the following fixes Support for Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW 2 New Samples Tweet Your Blobs and CRUD SQL [...]
Categories: WP News Tags: toolkit, Windows Azure, Windows Phone, WP7
Xbox Companion App for Windows Phone
Ben Rudolph in the Windows Phone Team Blog writes about the Xbox Companion App that can help you to control your xbox with your Windows Phone . Ben shares his experience about using the beta copy of the Xbox Companion App with his xbox . Some of the scenarios he [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: Windows Phone, WP7, xbox
Download iOS 5 Gold Master Beta
Apple iOS 5 is the next major version from Apple which includes some cool features like iCloud OpenGL ES Storyboards iMessages Twitter Integration NotificationCenter Automatic Reference Counting Alerts many more … Apple had recently announced the availability of iOS 5 GM Seed which is a pre-release version of iOS 5 [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Apple, iOS, Mac, Windows Phone, WP7
Webcast – Accessing Data in WP7 Applications
The Pittsburgh .NET User Group is hosting a webcast on “Accessing Data in WP7 Applications” on October 20, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (ET) . This session will be presented by Greg Lutz , ComponentOne . Here’s the abstract or the intro about the event Data, whether in [...]
Categories: Events Tags: Data, Webcast, Windows Phone, WP7
Webcast – Building a Simple WP7 Game using XNA
The Pittsburgh .NET User Group is hosting a webcast on “Building a Simple WP7 Game using XNA ” on October 13 , 2011 from from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (ET) . This session will be presented by Steven Hook . Here’s the abstract or the intro about the event [...]
Categories: Events Tags: Microsoft, Windows Phone 7, WP7, XNA
Webcast – WP7 OnRamp
The Pittsburgh .NET User Group is hosting a webcast on “Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development” on October 6 , 2011 from from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (ET) . This session will be presented by Rich Dudley , Technical Evangelist for ComponentOne . Here’s the abstract or the intro [...]
Categories: Events Tags: NET, User Group, Windows Phone, WP7
Start Something! Bring your apps to life on Windows Phone
Chicago IDEAS Week as a part of CIW Partner Program is organisning an event on the topic “Start Something! Bring your apps to life on Windows Phone” on October 11 , 2011 in Chicago , United States from 5.30 PM to 7.30 PM. “Do you have the next million dollar [...]
Categories: Events Tags: events, Mango, Windows Phone, WP7
Windows Phone wins IDEA People’s Choice Award
Microsoft’s Windows Phone has won IDEA 2011 people’s choice award along with 2 other awards . Windows Phone also includes other 2 awards for Interaction and best in the show . The Windows Phone Design Team thanked everyone who voted in Twitter The Metro UI is definitely getting more recognition [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Award, IDEA, Windows Phone, WP7
Windows Phone Anchor Camp at Austin Texas on October 4 , 2011
Microsoft is organising Windows Phone Anchor Camp from October 04, 2011 to October 05 , 2011 at AT&T Conference Center , Austin Texas , United States . Windows Phone Anchor Camp is a 2 day event that lets you know everything you need to know about Windows Phone Application . [...]
Windows Phone Camp – Reston Virginia on September 29 , 2011
Windows Phone Camp is a free, full day event with chock-full of everything you need to know to develop a Windows Phone application. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or just getting started with .NET development this full-day event is for you. “Don’t miss the new Windows Phone 7.5 (codename “Mango”) [...]
Categories: Events Tags: C#, NET, Windows Phone Camp, WP7
Interesting .NET Links – September 14 , 2011
WCF # 2 – Implementation Of a Web Service (Writing/Implementing a WCF Service Entirely in Code) – Ganesh Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring – Peter Kuhn Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 2 – Walter Ferrari My favorite tools to optimize Visual Studio for [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: C#, Visual Studio, WCF, Windows Phone, WP7
Windows Phone Camp – Malvern Pennsylvania on September 27 , 2011
Windows Phone Camp is a free, full day event with chock-full of everything you need to know to develop a Windows Phone application. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or just getting started with .NET development this full-day event is for you. “Don’t miss the new Windows Phone 7.5 (codename “Mango”) [...]
Categories: Events Tags: C#, events, Windows Phone Camp, WP7
Windows Phone Camp – Alpharetta Georgia on September 22 , 2011
Windows Phone Camp is a free, full day event with chock-full of everything you need to know to develop a Windows Phone application. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or just getting started with .NET development this full-day event is for you. “Don’t miss the new Windows Phone 7.5 (codename “Mango”) [...]
Categories: Events Tags: C#, Webinars, Windows Phone Camp, WP7
Windows Phone Camp – Charlotte North Carolina
Windows Phone Camp is a free, full day event with chock-full of everything you need to know to develop a Windows Phone application. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or just getting started with .NET development this full-day event is for you. “Don’t miss the new Windows Phone 7.5 (codename “Mango”) [...]
Interesting .NET Links – September 4 , 2011
Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 RC – Michael Crumb Silverlight 5 Release Candidate is now Available – Download Silverlight 5 RC – Kunal C#/.NET Little Wonders: An Oft Overlooked String Constructor – James Michael Non-Virtual Interface Design Pattern SQL Server Configuration Manager – Hide your SQL Server Instance – [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: Silverlight, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, WP7
My WindowsPhoneRocks.com site goes Live
It has been a month now that i was working on my Windows Phone 7 site called WindowsPhoneRocks.comand today, the website officially goes live. I wanted to move all my Windows Phone related articles from ginktage.com to the another site (Windowsphonerocks.com ) site and that is how the idea for this new [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: ginktage, Windows Phone, windowsphonerocks, WP7
Fuse – Metro Styled RSS Feeds Reader for Windows Phone
When you search the Windows Phone marketplace , you might find that there are plenty of RSS reader apps out there but only a few of them looks good . Here’s one of those App thats quite unique and appeals to the Metro UI . Its Rudy Huyn’s Fuse App [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: App, RSS Reader, Windows Phone, WP7
Windows Phone 7 Look in Windows Mobile 6.5
Want to have your Windows mobile 6.1 or 6.5 look like Windows Phone 7 ? Here’s a project created by filipe oliveira which is a Windows Mobile today screen which looks like the Windows Phone 7 start Screen . The App uses the Compact Framework 3.5 and is still is [...]
Categories: Others, Windows Phone 7 Tags: start screen, Theme, windows mobile, Windows Phone 7, WP7
Microsoft Bing’s Metro UI for Android
Microsoft has now updated its Bing Application with the Windows Phone 7 / Windows 8 Metro UI Look . The Bing App for android includes some additional features in which the Windows Phone 7 Metro UI is one of them . So , its the Android users turn to get [...]
Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011
SQL Server – Which Indexes will be used? – Paresh Creating Basic RSS Reader in ASP.NET MVC 3 – Jalpesh Parallel For Loop – Richard Carr What’s Wrong With This Code? (#28) – K. Scott Allen Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 – Peter Kuhn Trouble with resources in WP7 [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: C#, NET, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, WP7
Custom Mango ROMS for HTC Windows Phones
The darkforces Team have released the first ever Custom ROM for Windows Phone 7 HTC handsets The ROM’s released are all Beta ROM’s of Mango wuth the build number 7713 and ChevronWP7 unlocked too . If you are adventurous or ready to take risk on your mobile warranty , go [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: custom mango, ROM, Windows Phone, WP7, XDA Developers
MCPD for Windows Phone Developers
Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Certification (MCPD) for Windows Phone Developers which helps to validate the candidate\’s knowledge and skills on designing and developing Applications for the Windows Phone Platform. via MCPD for Windows Phone Developers.
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: developers, MCPD, Windows Phone, WP7
How to convert the Windows Phone App from 7.1 to 7.0 ?
Yesterday , i was trying to open the properties of my Windows Phone 7 Project and by mistake ,i converted it to Windows Phone 7.1 . via How to convert the Windows Phone App from 7.1 to 7.0 ?.
Categories: Others, Windows Phone 7 Tags: Windows Phone, WP7
Top 8 Websites To Learn Windows Phone 7 Development
Windows Phone 7 is the Mobile OS from Microsoft that was launched last year . The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has more than 25000 App and still going strong . Now with the announcement of the WIndows Phone Mango ( Beta ) and SDK . Read More @ Top 8 [...]
Categories: Others, Windows Phone 7 Tags: Development, Windows Phone 7, WP7
WP7App – Dog Sound Board
Dog Sound Board is a Windows Phone App published by WantSomeGetSome and listed in the Entertainment Category . The App is now free and its version number is 1.5.0.0 . “Dog sounds for all to enjoy! “ Irrespective of whether you have a dog as pet or not , you [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: App, Marketplace, Windows Phone, WP7, Zune
Windows Phone 7 Extension to Enterprise Alert for SCSM and SCOM
Derdack has announced the release of the Windows Phone 7 Application that enables the analysts to manage their alerts from SCOM and incidents from SCSM . Travis Wright revealed that the App connects to Derdack’s Enterprise Alert system which integrates bi-directionally with SCOM and SCSM . Find the App Video [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: IT management, Windows Phone, WP7
WP7 App – Are you an introvert or an extrovert
Are you an introvert or an extrovert is a free Windows Phone App listed under the Entertainment Category . The App is published by Movisol . Introverts are the people who tend to keep their feelings for themselves while Extroverts are more socialable and communicate what they feel to the [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: Marketplace, Windows Phone 7, WP7, Zune
WP7 App – .NET Shoutout
Want to get the latest news around the .NET technology ? Here’s an App that lets you know the latest in .NET news from the Dotnetshoutout which is a KiGG powered social news site . .NET Shoutout is a free WP7 App developed by Sigma Nine and is listed in [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: Dotnetshoutout, NET, windows, Windows Phone 7, WP7, Zune