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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.
24 Feb 2016 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to build a simple Toast Notification in #UWP apps? (Part 2)
21 Jan 2016 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to build a simple Toast Notification in #UWP apps? (Part 1)
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.
28 Aug 2013 by IInjac
MVVM for Windows Phone developers.
27 Aug 2013 by zoyobar
Using NPC and NPCManager to create NPC and custom actions in XNA, WPXNA (19)
29 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Use Pinup and PinupManager to create pinups in XNA, WPXNA (17)
26 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Using Item and ItemManager to create items in the XNA, WPXNA (16)
24 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Use the Bullet and BulletManager classes to create bullets and attack targets in XNA, WPXNA (15)
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.
22 Jul 2013 by Ernest Poletaev
Load image in background thread in Silverlight WP7.
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.
18 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Using the SpiritManager class to manage the Spirit in XNA.
4 Jul 2013 by Timmy Kokke
The Storyboard extension is available for users of Visual Studio Ultimate, Premium and Test Professional.
3 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Using the CommandScene class to create command scenes in the XNA, WPXNA (12)
1 Jul 2013 by zoyobar
Using Anime class to create animations in XNA, WPXNA (11)
1 Jul 2013 by Dan Colasanti
Advertising Network Options for WP7 XNA Games – Revisited
24 Jun 2013 by zoyobar
How to use the Button class to create Graphic buttons in XNA, WPXNA
19 Jun 2013 by Ernest Poletaev
Localize ToggleSwitch in the Silverlight Toolkit.
19 Jun 2013 by Ernest Poletaev
Localize Windows Phone 7 Styles.
3 Jun 2013 by zoyobar
How to use HitArea class for hit testing in XNA, WPXNA
30 May 2013 by zoyobar
Using the AudioManager class to play sounds and music in XNA, WPXNA (5)
27 May 2013 by zoyobar
How to use the Movie class to divide picture and create animation in XNA, WPXNA (4)
22 May 2013 by zoyobar
How to use XNA in Silverlight
5 May 2013 by Anuraj Parameswaran
Using existing database in Windows Phone
25 Apr 2013 by zoyobar
Defining Windows Phone app's requirements
15 Apr 2013 by zoyobar
Using SQLite with Windows Phone 8 apps.
15 Apr 2013 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes the addition of a two-finger rotation and three-finger pitch gesture to the Windows Phone 8 Map control.
14 Apr 2013 by zoyobar
Usefel tips for Windows Phone XNA game development.
20 Mar 2013 by Tamir Khason
Recursive delete from IsolatedStorage and other time savers for Windows Phone development.
12 Feb 2013 by saramgsilva
This sample aims to show how to share code between Windows Store and Windows Phone app.
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.
28 Jan 2013 by Paulo Morgado
16 Jan 2013 by kishore Gaddam
This is an introduction to HTML5 development using VS2010, HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4
12 Nov 2012 by marcofranssen
The Color object doesn’t contain a color called Emerald. So I created a small class to help me out with this issue.
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.
24 Oct 2012 by Simon Jackson
AdRotator for Windows Phone XNA
26 Jul 2012 by zoyobar
Why you need to remove event handler for XNA?
9 Jul 2012 by Paulo Morgado
How to make XAML Content Globalizable when using value converters
8 Jun 2012 by Nathan Gloyn
How I developed my first WP7 app
7 Jun 2012 by James Curran
How to get an ApplicationBarIconButton by name.
30 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to share links from WP7 to Social Networking Sites using the ShareLinkTask?
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.
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.
26 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to share status from WP7 using the ShareStatus task
26 Apr 2012 by Colin Eberhardt
Databinding is a fundamental part of the WPF, Silverlight, and the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 frameworks. It is a powerful concept that once mastered allows you to write concise and elegant code.
25 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
SmsComposeTask of the WP7 SDK can be used to create SMS from code.
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).
19 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to launch the WP7 Application Details Page using the MarketplaceDetailTask?
19 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to search in the WP7 Marketplace using the MarketplaceSearchTask?
19 Apr 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Invoking through the Dispatcher on Windows Phone and Metro
18 Apr 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Download Code (1.14 MB)I was thinking about how to write code that will work on both Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Metro). In theory some of the techniques that could be used are well known. But I wanted to try them out. So I decided to try some things out in a piece of throw away code.
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.
16 Apr 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Data serializer update for Windows Metro.
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?
15 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How can you programmatically retrieve a phone number from an existing contact list?
12 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to call a number programmatically in Windows Phone
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.
8 Apr 2012 by Daniel Vaughan
How to use T4 to generate Windows Phone WMAppManifest files
4 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to programmatically search for a specific contact in WP7?
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.
28 Mar 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to save Contact in WP7 using the SaveContactTask
22 Mar 2012 by zoyobar
Some lessons learned during Windows Phone XNA game devleopment
31 Jan 2012 by XPG Live
Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG
23 Jan 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson
How to adjust Microsoft Translator WAVE volume
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.
16 Jan 2012 by Colin Eberhardt
Browsing your Photos via Bing Maps
12 Jan 2012 by Felice Pollano
An implementation of ICivicAddressResolver for Windows Phone 7
9 Jan 2012 by XPG Live
A walk through of using all of the features XPG Live has to offer
8 Jan 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Pinning an Application to the Start Screen
8 Dec 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
A slide view with page pips on Windows Phone 7
30 Nov 2011 by Nathan Gloyn
My thoughts on my new Windows Phone 7
30 Nov 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson
A quick write up on location services.
20 Oct 2011 by Derek Lakin
Additional MessageBox features on Windows Phone 7.
17 Oct 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
A Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) MVVM Tombstoning Example
30 Sep 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
Step-by-step development of a Windows Phone 7 HTML5 application using PhoneGap
28 Sep 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
WP7 System Tray - Tips to show or hide it
26 Aug 2011 by Daniel Vaughan
The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.
24 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate (RC) released – Download the Offline/Web Installer
8 Aug 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes how to implement a conversation / messaging style application with Windows Phone 7. It covers how to style the speech bubbles and the scrolling of the conversation list view when the phone keyboard is shown.
7 Aug 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Windows Phone NTP Client
5 Aug 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
How to capture Windows Phone 7 Panorama images
27 Jul 2011 by Dan Colasanti
What I learned while evaluating and integrating XNA ad-network SDKs.
20 Jul 2011 by Daniel Vaughan
Some really nice techniques for handling asynchronous network calls.
20 Jul 2011 by Daniel Vaughan
The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.
19 Jul 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
How to create a conversation view, mimicking the SMS messaging interface within Windows Phone 7
28 Jun 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Peer Communication on Windows Phone 7
28 Jun 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson
Set custom ring tones in Windows Phone 7.
16 Jun 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
A simple metro-in-motion behaviour which reduces the Panorama control’s contents while the user slides from item-to-item so that they can really appreciate your fancy background graphic!
6 Jun 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes the development of a rolling list location indicator.
29 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
A list of new features in Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Mango)
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.
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
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
19 May 2011 by Vangos Pterneas
An easy-to-use, thread-safe library which works similarly to WebClient!
19 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow
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.