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21 Nov 2010 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Playing back data that was recorded from the Microphone, in Windows Phone 7
18 Jan 2012 by Inaki Ayucar
In this post, I’ll try to share my thoughts and experience developing applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace.
22 Jul 2013 by Simon Jackson
Syncfusion’s "Succinctly" series, one of the largest free (and still growing) set of technical books covering everything from languages, to source control systems and beyond.
31 Mar 2017 by Dan Colasanti
AutoResetEvent can be used in place of AsyncWaitHandle and provides a thread-blocking WaitOne signaled timeout function, which can be put on a background thread in order to not block the main UI thread.
22 Nov 2010 by mbcrump
How to submit a Windows Phone 7 Application to the market
13 May 2010 by Sarath C
Adding toolbar buttons to taskbar button flyout
13 Dec 2010 by Vangos Pterneas
Photoshop templates for Windows Phone 7
24 Apr 2011 by Ondrej_Uzovic
A simple example showing how to implement encrypted communication between Windows Phone 7 and standalone .NET application.
18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes the implementation of a metro ’tilt’ effect for Windows Phone 7 which causes element to respond to user interactions by tilting in 3D.
17 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes a Windows Phone 7 NavigationList control, a list control designed for navigation pages. The NavigationList renders twice as fast as a ListBox and has a slightly simpler API.
28 Jun 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Peer Communication on Windows Phone 7
30 Nov 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson
A quick write up on location services.
24 Sep 2010 by Sarath C
Window 7: Setting custom Thumbnail clip
20 Dec 2010 by Vangos Pterneas
Google translator service for Windows Phone 7
1 Jan 2011 by Vangos Pterneas
Face detection in Windows Phone 7
24 Jan 2011 by Daniel Vaughan
How to load data when the user scrolls to the end of a list in Windows Phone 7
7 Feb 2011 by rudigrobler
An audio recorder for Windows Phone 7
8 Feb 2011 by rudigrobler
Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX
24 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post shows how to implement tombstoning within a Windows Phone 7 application that follows the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.
28 Apr 2012 by Jeremy Alles
In this post, I share the “journal” I wrote will porting the app so that you can follow this process with many detail.
6 Feb 2011 by mbcrump
Quick run through of the WP7 Developer Tools January 2011
14 Mar 2011 by rudigrobler
How to make the ApplicationBar bindable in a WP7 application.
28 Mar 2011 by Ondrej_Uzovic
A simple example showing how to implement communication from a Windows Phone 7 to a standalone .NET application using HTTP
29 Mar 2011 by rudigrobler
What data to save when your application is tombstoned
6 Apr 2011 by Vangos Pterneas
Creating an iPhone-styled Windows Phone emulator
12 May 2011 by rudigrobler
The top requested features for Silverlight, WP7, and WPF
19 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow
19 Jul 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
How to create a conversation view, mimicking the SMS messaging interface within Windows Phone 7
16 Jan 2012 by Colin Eberhardt
Browsing your Photos via Bing Maps
8 Apr 2012 by Daniel Vaughan
How to use T4 to generate Windows Phone WMAppManifest files
12 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to call a number programmatically in Windows Phone
17 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
This post will allow you to understand the API of Windows Phone 7 SDK. In this post, we will learn about SaveEmailAddressTask class and its API with a simple demo.
19 Apr 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Invoking through the Dispatcher on Windows Phone and Metro
26 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to share status from WP7 using the ShareStatus task
28 Apr 2012 by Jeremy Alles
In this post, I’m sharing the aspects I discovered while trying to port a project from Windows Phone to WinRT.
12 Feb 2013 by saramgsilva
This sample aims to show how to share code between Windows Store and Windows Phone app.
4 Jul 2013 by Timmy Kokke
The Storyboard extension is available for users of Visual Studio Ultimate, Premium and Test Professional.
28 Jan 2014 by Manoj.Kumar12
This article is Part 2 of the series of the article on Windows Phone 8 app developments - Quick Start-up guide with best practices.
22 Feb 2010 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Windows Phone deployment patterns
12 Mar 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson
How to implement local high scores in Windows Phone 7
12 May 2011 by rudigrobler
When your application gets tombstoned, you get an opportunity to save some state about your application. What should be saved, where to save it, and when?
18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
In this blog post, I look at how to implement the fly-out fly-in effect seen in native Windows Phone 7 applications. This effect is seen in the native mail application; when you click on a message, the title flies out of the list then flies back in as the title of the message page.
18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
How to implement the animated 'peel' effect seen when native Windows Phone 7 applications exit
17 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post presents an attached behaviour that gracefully slides the contents of a list into view when used in conjunction with a Pivot control, emulating the Windows Phone 7 email application.
20 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
A few performance measurements that detail the relative performance of ItemsControl, ListBox and manual addition of elements to the UI
24 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
A simple content control that can be used to defer the rendering of its contents in order to provide a better user experience on Windows Phone 7
6 Jun 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes the development of a rolling list location indicator.
27 Jul 2011 by Dan Colasanti
What I learned while evaluating and integrating XNA ad-network SDKs.
24 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate (RC) released – Download the Offline/Web Installer
9 Jan 2012 by XPG Live
A walk through of using all of the features XPG Live has to offer
23 Jan 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson
How to adjust Microsoft Translator WAVE volume
19 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to search in the WP7 Marketplace using the MarketplaceSearchTask?
22 Mar 2012 by zoyobar
Some lessons learned during Windows Phone XNA game devleopment
28 Mar 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to save Contact in WP7 using the SaveContactTask
31 Mar 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this small post, we will learn how to retrieve saved contacts in WP7 using the Windows Phone 7 SDK APIs.
4 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to programmatically search for a specific contact in WP7?
10 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
This small post will help you to understand the basics about the SavePhoneNumberTask API and details about the implementation stuff with step-by-step details.
15 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How can you programmatically retrieve a phone number from an existing contact list?
16 Apr 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Data serializer update for Windows Metro.
21 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to retrieve an email address from a contact list with a simple example (including the internal implementation of the API).
25 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
SmsComposeTask of the WP7 SDK can be used to create SMS from code.
3 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Using the CommandScene class to create command scenes in the XNA, WPXNA (12)
21 Jul 2013 by Simon Jackson
After playing a lot with Parse over the last few weeks, I thought I’d share some of my findings.
22 Jul 2013 by Ernest Poletaev
Load image in background thread in Silverlight WP7.
27 Aug 2013 by zoyobar
Using NPC and NPCManager to create NPC and custom actions in XNA, WPXNA (19)
21 Jan 2016 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to build a simple Toast Notification in #UWP apps? (Part 1)
16 Mar 2010 by mrjvdveen
MIX10 Keynote: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
25 Aug 2010 by HelgeKlein
PdhBrowseCounters Requires Elevation in Windows 7 APIs
10 Feb 2011 by Tony Champion (Champion DS)
Logging in Silverlight and WP7 with MVVM Light
28 Jun 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Set custom ring tones in Windows Phone 7.
20 Jul 2011 by Daniel Vaughan
The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.
1 Jul 2013 by Dan Colasanti
Advertising Network Options for WP7 XNA Games – Revisited
5 Aug 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
How to capture Windows Phone 7 Panorama images
17 Oct 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
A Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) MVVM Tombstoning Example
30 Nov 2011 by Nathan Gloyn
My thoughts on my new Windows Phone 7
12 Jan 2012 by Felice Pollano
An implementation of ICivicAddressResolver for Windows Phone 7
31 Jan 2012 by XPG Live
Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG
15 Apr 2012 by Nathan Gloyn
Whilst Microsoft wants a unified platform, and as I said I understand why, would it not be better to wait and be happy that Win 8 and WinRT is successful with bugs ironed out before rolling it out across all form factors?
9 Jul 2012 by Paulo Morgado
How to make XAML Content Globalizable when using value converters
24 Oct 2012 by Simon Jackson
AdRotator for Windows Phone XNA
24 Oct 2012 by Simon Jackson
          AdRotator for Windows Phone Silverlight V1.2 release With the release of what is likely the last version in the V1 branch of AdRotator for Windows Phone Silverlight I’ve gone some lengths to make sure the documentation and samples are also feature complete.
28 Jan 2013 by Paulo Morgado
With Rx, events are first class citizens that can be passed around and composed as needed in a very simple way.
14 Apr 2013 by zoyobar
Usefel tips for Windows Phone XNA game development.
15 Apr 2013 by zoyobar
Using SQLite with Windows Phone 8 apps.
25 Apr 2013 by zoyobar
Defining Windows Phone app's requirements
27 May 2013 by zoyobar
How to use the Movie class to divide picture and create animation in XNA, WPXNA (4)
30 May 2013 by zoyobar
Using the AudioManager class to play sounds and music in XNA, WPXNA (5)
3 Jun 2013 by zoyobar
How to use HitArea class for hit testing in XNA, WPXNA
19 Jun 2013 by Ernest Poletaev
Localize ToggleSwitch in the Silverlight Toolkit.
24 Jun 2013 by zoyobar
How to use the Button class to create Graphic buttons in XNA, WPXNA
1 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Using Anime class to create animations in XNA, WPXNA (11)
18 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Using the SpiritManager class to manage the Spirit in XNA.
24 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Use the Bullet and BulletManager classes to create bullets and attack targets in XNA, WPXNA (15)
29 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Use Pinup and PinupManager to create pinups in XNA, WPXNA (17)
28 Aug 2013 by IInjac
MVVM for Windows Phone developers.
29 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
A list of new features in Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Mango)
6 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
This is a continuation to my previous post "How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight".
20 Mar 2013 by Tamir Khason
Recursive delete from IsolatedStorage and other time savers for Windows Phone development.