Hey guys, In this post i am going to talk about the most import part of the Silverlight and WPF applications, the View Model and the MVVM pattern. UI development Challenges View Models are designed to solve certain problems that pop during the UI designing. The major problem is that the User Interface code [...]
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Silverlight 4 : Data Binding, Data Context, Data Template, Grouping, Binding to Collections
Microsoft has been offering data binding for all its user interface applications but it was an assumption that all the data binding that will happen will always be related to database. However WPF and Silverlight have a broader view assuming that the client side code is often not connected directly to the database. And [...]
Silverlight 4 : File Access, Dialogs, Stream, Isolated Storages
File Access Option In Silverlight there are 3 main ways of accessing files: OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog – This is the most flexible of all the file access options as this can be used by any Silverlight application running at any permission level. The user can select any file as long as the user has [...]
Media Element in Silverlight and WPF
Hey guys. Today i am going to discuss about the MediaElement in Silverlight and see how we can put it in use in Silverlight and WPF applications. We can integrate media into our Silverlight pages and WPF UserControls. MediaElement Objects To add media to the Silverlight page just add a MediaElement to your XAML [...]
Extending your Silverlight 4 Application with Controls
Extending your Silverlight 4 Application with Controls We could not only use and extend the controls present in the visual studio toolbox for Silverlight but also there are multiple providers offering additional controls for Silverlight framework. Extending XAML XAML stands for eXtensible Application Markup Language and hence it’s possible to add import external elements into [...]
Tutorial : Creating Silverlight / XNA applications on Windows Phone 7 / Emulator (Basic concept)
Lets learn about creating Windows Phone Projects Visual Studio 2010 Visual Studio is an “Integrated Development Environment” for creating programs Edit program source Add and manage program resources Build, deploy and debug an application It can be used for multiple platforms and languages and can also be customized by plug-ins for the different target platforms [...]
Windows Phone 7 / Mango Background Task
So the topics we are going to cover in this post are: Windows Phone Task Management Multi-Tasking with Background Agents Creating tasks in Visual Studio File Transfer Tasks Background Notifications Background Music Playback Tasks Prerequisites Must have .Net and Silverlight development experience Must have developed a windows phone apps. Lets start Windows Phone [...]
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Tutorial ( WP7 ) : ViewStateManger / States / Behaviours in a Windows Phone 7
Alright guys i am back with a new concept in Windows Phone 7 ( WP7 ) which is ViewStateManager. It is a really important concept for understanding visual states associated with them. If you want to create different states for your custom control then we would have to use Visual State Manager. If you have the solution [...]
Tutorial – InputScope Property in Input Controls Windows Phone 7 ( WP7 )
Hey Guys. Hope you liked my previous post for creating a simple Windows Phone 7 navigation application. So in this post we will learn as how how can we optimize the virtual keyboard on WP7 for various input controls. Open the solution we created in the previous post for creating a simple Windows Phone 7 navigation [...]
Create a simple navigation application in Windiows Phone 7 ( WP7 )
Create a simple navigation application in Windiows Phone 7 ( WP7 ) In a Windows Phone application it is highly probable that you will have more than one screen in your application and you will need to navigate between them. We can make use of the navigation framework for the same. This navigation will be very similar [...]
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