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Windows Phone App : Truth or Dare

Hi,   Have a look at latest windows phone application that i developed for a client.   This application makes uses of Accelerometer feature available on Windows Phone.     The source code of the application will be made available on demand and could also be customized if needed.   Any comments and feedback are most [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Introduction To Multithreading : Apps Powered by Multicore processors on Window Phone 7

The advantage of threading is the ability to create applications that use more than one thread of execution. For example, a process can have a user interface thread that manages interactions with the user and worker threads that perform other tasks while the user interface thread waits for user input. This tutorial demonstrates various thread [...]

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Window Phone 7: Onscreen Speedometer:Vroom-Vroom

Technorati Tags: Speedometer,Winodws Phone 7,development Creating a speedometer ,largely depends whether you want to display a numerical readout, or as a rotating needle. First, to get the actual speed value, as mentioned in another answer, you can simply use the rigid body’s velocity. However, Unity’s default scale is one unit = one meter, so reading [...]

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Windows Phone Theme Customisation

I saw a question on stackoverflow.com about theme management in a Silverlight application. As I stated in my answer, there’s no specific API to manage a theme like you know it in Windows. However you have the concept of ResourceDictionnary. Yesterday I posted a link to a video from Microsoft showing different applications with very [...]

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Creating File Uploader For Window Phone 7

Creating File Uploader For Window Phone 7

This is very basic level small user control, in which we can discuss how to create web user control. To create user controls follow the steps: Right click on project Click on Add Select New Item Select Web User Control Specify some Name I have given name to this file as “uploader.ascx” and kept this [...]

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Creating a Simple Download Manager For Window Phone 7

Creating a Simple Download Manager For Window Phone 7

Start by creating a C# Windows Application project in Visual Studio and on the form drag 3 labels, 2 textboxes, 2 buttons and one progressbar. As you can see in the form above, the first two labels are just for describing the role of the first two textboxes which are named txtUrl and txtPath. They [...]

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Tutorial ( WP7 ) : ViewStateManger / States / Behaviours in a Windows Phone 7

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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