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5 Mar 2015 by 65Goat
This contest submission is for a home monitoring solution that reads temperature, humidity and states from various sensors around a home. The data is stored in Azure and can be accessed via mobile devices.
29 Jan 2011 by 69Icaro
Analyzing the Snake game, we'll study an application for the new Windows Phone 7 platform, focusing on localization, Inversion of Control, navigation, transition effects, triggers, Isolated Storage, audio and we'll also use Blend to create a rounded glowing button, and other things...
7 Feb 2013 by Abdullatif M. Abu Al Rub
Simple example of reading RSS feeds from Facebook page using Syndication Library
9 Sep 2011 by Addison-Wesley
This chapter will cover some of the core concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) and how they apply to both iPhone and Windows Phone 7 programming
16 Jul 2011 by Ahmedn1
A simple GPS system to locate the current location of the phone
24 Jul 2011 by Alan Boldock
Many available demonstrations and tutorials demonstrate how to play an animation generated in a 3D application. This tutorial demonstrates how to manipulate a 3D model using only the code to find and manipulate Bones within a simple 3D model generated in Blender.
3 Jul 2011 by Alexander Galkin
Provides a sample code for a simple test bench application and compares the performance of two most common embedded databases for .NET: Microsoft SQL CE 4.0 and SQLite.
9 Feb 2015 by Andrew Whiddett
Creating a scaleable ObservableCollection that supports pagination, async and (for the first time) FULL write operations
30 Nov 2010 by anshulskywalker
Introduction to building a simple Windows phone 7 application that reads and stores comic feeds in WP7
17 Feb 2015 by apmyhr
Turn your smartphone into the Eyes and Ears of your Quadcopter drone.
3 Feb 2011 by Arik Poznanski
How to read RSS Items on Windows Phone 7
10 Feb 2011 by Arik Poznanski
Another utility class I wrote to help me search Digg results asynchronously on a Windows Phone 7 application
24 Feb 2011 by Arik Poznanski
Searching Twitter on Windows Phone 7
3 Apr 2011 by Arik Poznanski
This document introduces a helper library for identifying shake gestures by using the accelerometer built into Windows Phone 7 devices.
2 May 2011 by Arik Poznanski
How to manage Tombstone State in a Windows Phone 7 Application
15 Aug 2011 by Arik Poznanski
How to use Windows Phone as Windows 7 Accelerometer sensor
30 Jan 2011 by Ashish Kaila
Describes features in Synergy Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 Version 1.0
12 Mar 2012 by Azim Zahir
This article decribes how to animate page transitions in Windows Phone 7
14 Nov 2011 by Bahrudin Hrnjica
Imlementation of HTML5 Widget apps in offline mode on Windows Phone 7 Mango.
3 May 2013 by BigWCat
Be able located the urn from the shelf, which has 2000 slots.
27 Feb 2012 by BillLange1968
Solution for creating a Leaderboard for a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) XNA game
9 Nov 2011 by Brett Goodman
How to use FileDb as a local database in your .NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone applications
6 Feb 2014 by Bwalsh490
It describes how to develop a WP7 VoIP client application that communicates with a server through TCP/UDP protocol
31 Aug 2014 by Carmelo La Monica
As explained in the previous article, the geolocation is one of the most frequently used features in the mobile and beyond, with it we are able to retrieve the location and information about the place in which we find ourselves, and used by an application to have otherinformation, such as restaurant
14 Oct 2014 by Carmelo La Monica
As explained in the previous article, the geolocation is one of the most frequently used features in the mobile and beyond, with it we are able to retrieve the location and information about the place in which we find ourselves, and used by an application to have other information, such as restauran
10 May 2018 by charles922
Math Function Tutor - Part 1
18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This article describes the development of a Windows Phone 7 Jump List control, giving a step-by-step account of the control's development (and a pretty flashy control to use at the end of it!).
21 Sep 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This article describes the development of XAML Finance, a cross-platform application which works on the desktop, using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), on the web, using Silverlight and on Windows Phone 7 (WP7).
6 Sep 2012 by Colin Eberhardt
This article describes the development of a Windows Phone to-do list application that eschews buttons and checkboxes in favour of gestures.
9 Oct 2012 by Colin Eberhardt
This article describes my experiences of porting a novel gesture-driven Windows Phone app to Windows 8.
3 Jan 2013 by Colin Eberhardt
A look at how Xamarin MonoTouch allows you to create cross-platform applications, using the native C# / Silverlight for Windows Phone and C#, via Xamarin MonoTouch, for iOS.
3 Sep 2012 by Colin Eberhardt
This article describes the development of a cross-platform HTML5 application for Windows Phone and iPhone.
18 Apr 2011 by D Y Chan
Consume WCF service with Windows Phone 7
6 Jan 2012 by Dan Colasanti
This is a port of Invasion (originally posted on CodeProject by Mauricio Ritter) to Windows Phone 7 (with some enhancements).
5 Feb 2014 by Dan Colasanti
This article describes my experience porting Invasion from XNA/WP7 to MonoGame/WP8 and includes Invasion's complete source code.
15 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan
Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.
17 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan
Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.
2 Oct 2014 by Daniel Vaughan
Leverage existing .resx files to localize Windows Phone, Android, and iOS apps in Xamarin.Forms.
7 Oct 2014 by Daniel Vaughan
Using Xamarin Forms platform specific rendering to create a cross-platform application bar.
13 Nov 2014 by Daniel Vaughan
Learn how to combine T4 and a custom markup extension to share and consume image files between projects.
25 Nov 2016 by Daniel Vaughan
A fun Xamarin Forms implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating how to port a UWP puzzle game to both Android and iOS while sharing nearly all code across platforms.
31 Jul 2011 by Dave Kerr
A small and neat addition to the Grid control which can tidy up XAML in WPF, Silverlight and WP7
18 Jan 2012 by Dave Kerr
The quickest, easiest, and funkiest way to bind enumerations to a combo box in WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7.
21 May 2012 by Dave Kerr
Write your first MVVM application in ten minutes using the Apex SDK!
21 May 2012 by Dave Kerr
Learn how to add Commands to your MVVM application to add functionality without breaking the separation of View and ViewModel.
15 Mar 2012 by David Rousset
How to create HTML5 apps on Windows Phone with PhoneGap
8 Jun 2015 by Deb Kumar Ghosal
Windows Phone 8.1 RT Microsoft has introduced many new features and changes in the Windows Phone 8.1. Isolated Storage is one of the crucial features that has completely changed in Windows Phone 8.1.
14 Oct 2013 by Dennis Shchuka
How to upload, download and synchronize application's files using SkyDrive
25 Oct 2010 by Derek Lakin
An application for Windows Phone 7 that integrates with Facebook
8 Nov 2010 by dolhaig
How to Resume the User's music after we played a video or audio from our Silverlight/XNA WP7 Application.
16 Nov 2010 by dolhaig
How to detect the Zune connection and the Network State inside your WP7 Application
21 Dec 2010 by Don Kackman
Building a WP7 browser app for last.fm
17 Jan 2013 by Don Kackman
A WP7 port of CPVanity with a CodeProject RSS reader.
30 Jan 2012 by Don Kackman
An example of using Google APIs and OAuth2 authentication on Windows Phone 7
14 Aug 2015 by Emiliano Musso
How to create a Windows Phone app to take timed pictures from camera, and upload them on an Apache webserver to view them remotely
6 Sep 2011 by EmitsorGrp
Automatically generate a Windows Phone 7 settings page.
7 May 2012 by emranallan
Black List Application in window mobile (Blocker Application)
11 May 2012 by emranallan
WINDOWS CE API HOOKING and Replace Function inside GWES.exe on all models since pocket PC 2003 until Windows mobile 6.5
12 May 2012 by emranallan
Make your Application windows phone 7 support for Bi-Directional right to left
12 Nov 2011 by Espen Harlinn
Introduction to XNA game development for Windows Phone - Includes XNAImage, image manipulation for XNA
27 Dec 2013 by Espen Harlinn
D3.js meets jQuery Mobile, WCF & ASP.Net
15 Dec 2010 by Evgeny Vinnik
A simple workaround for Windows Phone 7 apps to work with SQL Azure directly.
25 Feb 2013 by Florin Badea
The first article in this series presents the implementation considerations and the way to use some custom gauges in WP7.
25 Feb 2013 by Florin Badea
This article is the second in the series that describes a set of gauge controls for WP7.
25 Feb 2013 by Florin Badea
This article is the third in the series that describes a set of gauge controls for WP7. This article focuses on the implementation of the indicators used with the gauges.
5 Aug 2011 by Florin Badea
This article presents how to build a wizard for WP7 applications.
3 Nov 2014 by Geert van Horrik
This article tries to explain why you should use Catel as the (or one of the) frameworks when developing WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications.
25 May 2011 by Geert van Horrik
Using Catel as an MVVM framework on Windows Phone 7.
2 Sep 2011 by Geert van Horrik
This article is about Windows Phone 7 Mango and unit testing the camera
13 Aug 2012 by gggustafson
This article discusses two lessons learned during the development of a mobile application.
14 Apr 2014 by Giannakakis Kostas
Port your libgdx games to run in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms
14 Apr 2011 by Gil Fink
MIX11 Second Day Sessions Summary
23 Aug 2012 by Harald Heide Gundersen
Geocoordinate positioned Xna model viewable thru Photocamera
5 Jan 2011 by hoonzis
Learn how to build a small mobile application to visualize data from the city bike sharing system. Get the nearest stations, find the number of free bikes, and compute directions to other stations.
16 Aug 2012 by Houssem_Dellai
30 Apr 2013 by jangooni
Create a chat program that will have self destructing messages
17 Sep 2013 by Jani Giannoudis
Design patterns on the presentation layer for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone applications.
3 Oct 2012 by Jayson Ragasa
A Windows Phone ApplicationBar controller.
14 Dec 2010 by Jesse Liberty
In this tutorial we will build a meaningful, and nontrivial Windows phone 7 application. This will give us the opportunity to explore layout controls, interactive controls, Visual Studio and a good bit more.
14 Dec 2010 by Jesse Liberty
In this second part of the tutorial, we will describe how to wire up the MainPage.xaml.cs file and bring all of the objects in the Bird Hunt game together into a running application
30 Mar 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Demonstration of what needs to be done to make a voice recorder on Windows Phone 7 including converting the raw bytes from the recording into a WAVE file.
10 Jul 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson
A proof of concept for an animated sprite component that I am developing to run in XNA projects on Windows Phone, PC, and Xbox. The component allows animation information to be a part of the project's content and is a step in the direction of allowing an artist to be completely over creating animati
25 Jul 2013 by Joel Ivory Johnson
A sidereal time calculator for Windows Phone
4 Nov 2010 by João da Costa from Brazil
How to create a horoscope application in Windows Phone 7
20 Sep 2011 by Julien Villers
This will walk you through the creation of a custom IMarkerProvider implementation, allowing to display SAMI subtitles in SMF (Silverlight Media Framework).
2 Aug 2014 by K Stock
Article #2: How to install the multi-mobile-platform MoSync development environment
2 Aug 2014 by K Stock
Article #3: Getting started with MoSync for Android (and other mobile platforms)
27 May 2014 by KarstenK
9 Nov 2010 by Katka Vaughan
Learn how to use the Pivot and Panorama controls, page navigation, OData and more!
28 Apr 2013 by Ken Cenerelli
An application to store your list of medical shots in the cloud
4 Dec 2013 by Khademul Basher
Add Nokia Here Map in Windows Phone HTML5 Apps
7 Mar 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
The MarketplaceHubTask API to launch the Windows Phone 7 Hub client in your phone device
13 Jun 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
As a WP7Dev, you might want to build a stunning application with an animation to the page navigation or orientation changes. This article will help you to do so by using the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7. Continue reading to learn more about the APIs and the implementation steps.
20 Sep 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Today in this post, we will jumpstart with the RadDataBoundListBox and see the benefits of using it in our Windows Phone applications.
20 Dec 2010 by maciekgrabek
The Windows Phone 7 emulator doesn't support accelerometer. This project will help you to test accelerometer enabled applications on the Windows Phone 7 emulator!
16 May 2011 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
Math-based, sudoku-like game for Windows Phone 7
12 Jan 2012 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
Learn how to download your favorite TV transcripts and format it in your Smartphone.
2 Feb 2012 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
A 2D physics game for Windows Phone inspired on Angry Birds