A WPF Textbox which can validate international and national phone numbers depending on your needs, plus detailed explanation of the structure of phone numbers.

Xamarin: Starting an Activity from Webview

by Shailesh Pisat

Open a Phone Dialer on click of a link in Webview

Getting Started With CocosSharp Game Development For Windows Phone

by syed shanu

CocosSharp for Windows phone

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Windows Phone Crosswords

3 Jul 2012 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Learn how to create a Windows Phone crosswords game taking advantage of online internet resources

C#4.0

.NET

Mobile

Augmented reality - XNA Models

23 Aug 2012 by Harald Heide Gundersen

Geocoordinate positioned Xna model viewable thru Photocamera

Getting Started With CocosSharp Game Development For Windows Phone

20 Sep 2016 by syed shanu

CocosSharp for Windows phone

XNA and Beyond, the notable mentions

16 Jan 2013 by Simon Jackson

Some of the other frameworks which use XNA as a baseline.

TomSSL Band: writing a simple app for the Microsoft Band

12 Feb 2016 by Tom Chantler

In this article you will learn how to write a simple application for the Microsoft Band. It'll only take about half an hour. All of the code is in GitHub.

Geolocation in Windows Phone 8

2 Dec 2013 by Hadrich Mohamed

This article shows you how to use the Geolocation feature in Windows Phone 8.

WinMobile

Windows

phone

How to Use Onedrive Features in a Windows Phone 8 Application

18 Apr 2014 by Hadrich Mohamed

This tips show you how to get a windows Phone 8 which interacts with OneDrive.

Windows

phone

Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX

8 Feb 2011 by rudigrobler

Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX

Windows-Phone-7

Mobile

phone

Shake Gestures Library – A Windows Phone Recipe

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.

Windows-Phone-7

Mobile

phone

A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example

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.

.NET developments in business communication

27 May 2011 by OriginalGriff

If this is your thesis, shouldn't you be doing at least some of it yourself?

.NET

phone

how to make new form in Window phone 7

22 Apr 2012 by Espen Harlinn

MSDN: Windows Phone applications are based on a Silverlight page model where users can navigate forward through different screens of content. The following topics provide an overview of this model and describe how to implement navigation. Also, they provide guidance and steps for handling...

phone

A Simple Podcast App For Windows Phone (HTML & Javascript)

14 Jun 2015 by Fiyaz Hasan

Building a simple app for windows phone using plain HTML and Javascript

Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow

19 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow

Bluetooth in WP7 [By importing COM Dll in Windows Phone 7]

8 Sep 2011 by Malli_S

I'm trying to develop a bluetooth application in Windows Phone 7. I found WP7 doesn't provide bluetooth SDK. So I thought to implement the required functionality in C# assembly and import it in phone application. But WP7 even doesn't allow this importing as well. So thought of to develop a COM...

How to freeze the UI for few seconds?

26 Oct 2011 by RaisKazi

If I am not misunderstood, you want to put some delay between your Operations. For this in WP7 Programming, use DispatcherTimer.Have a look at below...

Windows

Silverlight

phone

how to send email from windows phone 7

21 Dec 2011 by Wendelius

Have a look at: How to: Use the Email Compose Task for Windows Phone[^]

Windows

phone

Sharing on Fb and Twitter

17 Dec 2012 by ridoy

Get some idea from it..http://windowsphonegeek.com/tips/Implement-Sharing-to-Facebook--Twitter-in-Windows-Phone[^]

Windows

phone

Accelerometer Sensor in Windows Phone 8

20 Feb 2013 by Pradeep Reddy S

Implementation of Accelerometer in WP8 applications.

Windows

XAML

phone

Windows Phone Apps Tips - Image Considerations

16 May 2013 by Shweta Lodha

Some tips on Windows Phone Apps

About Setup for Windows phone Development Studio

13 Aug 2013 by giri001

Hi Prashant,this is one of the best link for learning WindowsPhone. May be it will help u.Learn Windows Phone 8 by Microsoft-Step by Step[^]jmD-

Windows

phone

How to easily retreive your local photos, music, and playlists

2 Dec 2013 by Hadrich Mohamed

This tip shows you how to easily retrieve your local images, playlists, and music in Windows Phone 8.

WinMobile

Windows

phone

Question on hardware / software / language combination...

6 May 2014 by Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Some about PHP...PHP have a few advantages over other platforms1. Easy to learn (I wrote my first PHP SOAP server 2 hours after my ever first line in PHP)2. As PHP is an interpreted environment you have no compilation to perform, and also the deployment is copy-based\3. Wide community...

ColorPicker In Windows Phone 8

12 Nov 2014 by Shah Ankita

This code sample demonstrates how to set color to any control using colorpicker. For this, you have to create a new Windows phone app.

Issue with back button when navigating in Windows Phone 8.1 RT App

9 Jan 2015 by Pooja Baraskar

You have to set the BackPressedEventArgs.Handled property to true. If your app is at its first page and can't navigate backwards, you should not handle the event and the operating system will suspend your app.First you have to enable the NavigationCacheMode and then add an event handler for...

how to do des encryption and decryption of string in wp8.1 runtime environment?

28 May 2015 by CPallini

What about the documentation[^]?

Trouble with ListPicker (Windows Phone 7)

19 Jan 2011 by JOAT-MON

It does appear that the List Picker is limited to 5 items. According to Alex Yakhnin's blog[^] he answer's why by saying: "If it's more than five you should switch to using listbox type of control."

Trouble with ListPicker (Windows Phone 7)

21 Jan 2011 by Stoeoeoe

Oh my goodness - am I really that stupid.After searching for "ListPicker with more than 5 items" I found out that ItemCountThreshold e.g. 'ItemCountThreshold="10"' solves the problem!

Metro in Motion Part #1 – Fluid List Animation

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.

how to get pixel with VS2010 c# for windows mobile 7

21 Jun 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

See the code sample here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.imaging.writeablebitmap.aspx[^].You need to locate position in the buffer using the stride value.Pay attention for this code fragment, for example:pBackBuffer += row *...

what happen, if write an infinite loop in the method Application_Deactivated(), sent to background and back

2 Sep 2011 by #realJSOP

I'm torn between deleting your question and giving you a smart-ass response. Maybe just telling you that will give you an idea of my interpretation of the quality of your question.

Windows

phone

How to freeze the UI for few seconds?

26 Oct 2011 by I.explore.code

Can you not just disable all your controls on the GUI for the amount of time you don't want any UI interactions and place a simple "Please Wait" thingy on the GUI?

Windows

Silverlight

phone

Problem when assigning Background to Button control

29 Oct 2011 by TheyCallMeMrJames

Are you sure that the bug is with the buttons drawing?Looks like you're generating a random number between 1 and 3, then using that as an index into an array of colors. You have a 33% chance of getting yellow every time. Same with red and blue. So it's not surprising to see that the...

Windows

Silverlight

phone

how to create database and tables in android using SQLlite

12 Jan 2012 by Om Prakash Pant

this might help..Using SQLite Database with Android[^]

Android

Mobile

phone

a problem with if statement when login, android

30 Jan 2012 by Neha Thanka

Replace your If statement with this if(_email.equals("user@user.com") && _pass.equals("123")We use == only in int values and for string we use .equalsTry this in your code.

Android

Mobile

phone

How To Validate an EditText to handle numbers only in Android ?

26 Feb 2012 by imrankhanandroid

This may be solve ur problemMethod 1:TextView txt=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.txtview); txt.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);Method2: in XML fileadd this line android:id="@+id/txtview" android:layout_width="fill_parent" ...

Android

Mobile

phone

Handwriting Recognition on Windows Phone 7

23 May 2012 by Richard MacCutchan

You can help you. This is your assignment so it would not be any help if other people did the work for you.

Windows

API

phone

Get value from isolate storage

17 Jul 2012 by WoodenLegNamedSmith

Data Types 101A "STRING" is a sequence of characters commonly called "Text"A "BOOLEAN" is a true or false value.A "FLOAT" is a precision decimal number.Here is an example of using each one.//STRINGSstring checkState =...

Windows

phone

Set the time and retrieve it

20 Aug 2012 by ridoy

This is so simple to do for anyone..you need to try it by yourself...Do you google it?If you expect code from here then it willn't increase your coding skill.Ok,then lets see..DateTime.Now.ToString() will show you current time.You can use different foramts for that..suppose if you use...

phone

How to make calls using vb.net through a phone?

29 Aug 2012 by khn1o1

I want to make an application using vb.net by which i can make calls through connecting my phone though serial port. How can i do this?

API

serial-port

phone

How to make calls using vb.net through a phone?

29 Aug 2012 by Sandip.Nascar

Indeed you need to use TAPI (Telephony API)Here are few links which will give you some indepth knowledge in TAI and VB.NETWorking with TAPI 3.x from .NET[^]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms734257(v=vs.85).aspx[^]Hope this helps.cheers

API

serial-port

phone

cordova-2.0.0.js is not working on android using phonegap

12 Sep 2012 by Mehdi Gholam

You are better off submitting your problem to the authors here : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB[^]

phone number formatting issue

17 Oct 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Something is fundamentally wrong with your approach to work in general. Was it so difficult to look at the MSDN help page and see the right spelling? Well, take a look now:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.substring.aspx[^].Please, no offense: what you really need to...

Windows Phone 7 game development - moving a sprite

4 Nov 2012 by Abhinav S

These links might help you get startedhttp://www.jeffblankenburg.com/2010/10/29/31-days-of-windows-phone-day-29-animations/[^]Windows Phone 7 Animations — Alternatives, Performance[^]http://mobile.dzone.com/articles/create-simple-animation-your[^]

XNA to the Sunburn Gaming Engine and Beyond

6 Jan 2013 by Simon Jackson

So far in this series I’ve covered: MonoGame – a raw XNA implementation allowing you to create games but you have to code everything yourself UnityXNA – a way to host your existing XNA projects (or new ones) and deploy them using the Unity3D engine, but without utilising the advanced …

Resolution free android and iPhone app

5 Jan 2013 by Avinash6474

In HTML page I am using jquery library to read the height and width of display area.$window.width();$window.height();Then assign the height and width for the parent div tag on page. and take the child div's and assign only one parameter i.e. height or width in "num %" . It will...

Send SMS to Mobile from ASP.Net Application

26 Feb 2013 by Orcun Iyigun

Well seems like you have not bought an API from SMS sender provider here are some providers and their corresponding code examples:ViaNett[^]Ozeki[^]XML API[^]Good luck,OI

phone

SMS

Windows Phone: How to draw a number on a wirteable bitmap?

27 Feb 2013 by lewax00

The question here[^] and some of the answers seem to have what you're looking for.

Windows

phone

Windows Phone App Design Principles

19 May 2013 by Shweta Lodha

Windows Phone app design principles

Beginner using TAPI and C#

19 Jun 2013 by Dave Kreskowiak

Was wondering if there was a simple to use step by step guide that will introduce TAPI with C#.I've never found any "simple" TAPI tutorials.

API

phone

Beginner using TAPI and C#

19 Jun 2013 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

The following might help you.1. Beginners guide to TAPI[^].

API

phone

Windows phone 8 viewport control question

8 Jul 2013 by Tigran Hovannisyan

I want to create image zoom an pan control. I need to have a rectangular area which will represent the smallest size of image, i can pinch zoom my image and the areas of image outside the rectangle should have an oppacity mask. I tried using viewport controlI have viewport control, and i...

Windows

phone

controls

How to get call log details for a windows phone development

10 Jul 2013 by Naz_Firdouse

There is no API to retrieve Call History. This is mainly due to privacy concerns and protecting the user from nefarious applications behaving badly on the device.Have a look at thiswindows-phone-7 call history mango api[^]

Windows

phone

What code to use to control my phone?

23 Sep 2013 by Abhinav S

It would depend on what type of phone you buy.Windows Phone is Silverlight, and Android and iOS phones have different developmnent environments as well.Each of these would come with their own SDK's and development needs.

phone

Windows Phone App to Android app

30 Oct 2013 by Ron Beyer

Its possible to re-use a lot of your code, there is a development system called Xamarin[^] that allows you to program for Android or IOS using C#.Its not free though.

Read data from excel file in windows phone 8

17 Dec 2013 by praveen_07

using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.IO;using System.Linq;using System.Text;using System.Threading.Tasks;using System.IO.Compression;using System.Xml.Linq;using Windows.Storage;namespace OpenXMLReader{ public static class ExcelReader { ...

Windows

phone

Can I Install Visual Studio Express 2012 For Windows Phone & Visual Studio Express 2012On Same Machin

30 Dec 2013 by Mehdi Gholam

Yes you can install multiple express versions side by side.Side note : try using 2013 versions instead since it is more stable and faster.

C#4.0

Windows

phone

find no of app launch

17 Mar 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Please see my comment to the question. And here is the hint for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_%28computer_science%29[^].—SA

Windows

phone

Question on hardware / software / language combination...

5 May 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Only one main advice: it you are interested, stop saying "but" and just learn all you need to learn, if not — just forget it. With general programming experience, it won't be extremely difficult.About the choice between .NET and PHP: ASP.NET is probably the perfect tool, with the best...

Question on hardware / software / language combination...

6 May 2014 by thatraja

I'm not a PHP guy so wait for someone to answer on PHP related things. Here a comparisonPHP and ASP.NET - A Feature List[^]OK, for ASP.NET you have this article.Beginner's Walk - Web Development[^]Sander Rossel wrote:I want to develop for the web so it's accessible from a mobile phone...

Getting Started with Mono

10 Jun 2014 by Peter Leow

Check this out : Introduction to Mono - Your first Mono app[^]

Windows Phone in-app products

13 Jul 2014 by Henry Jooste

Good morningI've started creating a C# Windows Phone (Silverlight) app. I would really like to include in-app products. I've followed the tutorial: TutorialI've managed to add all the in-app products to my app. Just to test it, I've added a free in-app product. But when I click the...

Windows

XAML

phone

How to Crop Image into Different Size

5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel

you can now crop Image with specified size equally

Working with Accelerometer Windows Phone c#

5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel

Link between Accelerometer and composant in xaml

Geolocation services on Windows Phone 8.

22 Aug 2014 by Carmelo La Monica

Geolocation is one of the most frequently used functionality within mobile and beyond, with it we can retrieve the location and information about the place where.

Is Nokia X Software Platform support windows apps?

21 Oct 2014 by BillWoodruff

Nokia X runs Android: [^]; of course you can program for Android with MS tools, or use .NET with FrameWorks like Xamarin/Mono if you dare.From the linked-to source:"There was more than a little irony in seeing Stephen Elop, once a Microsoft stalwart and the architect of Nokia's Windows Phone...

Convert IsolatedStorageFileStream from Windows phone 8.1 to Windows 8.1

8 Nov 2014 by DamithSL

check with below methods, if you have setup development environment in windows 8 PC, you better debug line by line and check what is going wrong. To write a file:public async Task WriteFile(string fileName, string text){ IStorageFolder applicationFolder =...

Win8

Windows

phone

How to delete temporary files of windows phone using c#

7 Dec 2014 by Abhinav S

Try How to: Delete Files and Directories in Isolated Storage[^].

Windows

phone

Issue with back button when navigating in Windows Phone 8.1 RT App

29 Dec 2014 by Alex Foster

I have just moved over to making apps for Windows Phone 8.1 using the RT APIs having formerly exclusively used Silverlight for Windows Phone apps.I am creating a basic app with different pages. The main page is just a menu page with a list of buttons that take the user to different pages....

Achieveing Indefinite Background Execution with the Microsoft Band

6 Oct 2015 by James M Croft

This post covers getting your Windows apps connected to a Microsoft Band for an indefinite period of time.

how to show loading bezel on top of a page in windows phone

5 Nov 2015 by Krunal Rohit

Umm, that's progress indicator in the system tray. StatusBarProgressIndicator...

phone

Creating Phone apps

20 Dec 2015 by OriginalGriff

Start with a simple Google search: "create a windows Phone app in vb"[^]And have a look at some of the 4 million results - the first page alone has what? Six MSDN links to tutorials?

phone

making a program that execute ussd

21 Jan 2016 by Richard MacCutchan

See Serial Port I/O[^], for communicating with a modem from a C program.

International Phone Number Validation: Explained in Detail, Implemented with WPF TextBox

9 Apr 2020 by Peter Huber SG

A WPF Textbox which can validate international and national phone numbers depending on your needs, plus detailed explanation of the structure of phone numbers.

Trouble with ListPicker (Windows Phone 7)

19 Jan 2011 by Stoeoeoe

Hello there!I've been programming for 6 months now - so please don't tear me apart! :(I am all new to Silverlight and WPF and tried to code a little Windows Phone 7 application. After a while I found out that there is no real "date picker" or even a "list picker" control. So I searched...

controll a cell phone from computer to fowrred call another

9 Mar 2011 by Suman Sahoo

How can I controll my friends cell phone from my personal computer,to fowrred his call to my cell phone which nessesary for me?

phone

controll a cell phone from computer to fowrred call another

9 Mar 2011 by vishnulalr

you can connect the phone through blue tooth,wifi- through serialport and you can use 1)TAPI controlcontroll a cell phone from computer to fowrred call another[^]or2)AT command ATD+mobilenumber,ATH...

phone

C# class (system.drawing) in Windows phone 7

4 May 2011 by Olivier Levrey

Which dll you will need doesn't depend on the namespace you use but the classes you use. Check MSDN to see which classes are not supported by your platform (it is written at the bottom of each page).And the compatibility issue is generally more related to .NET Compact Framework rather than...

Windows

phone

DLL

Windows Phone 7 foursqaure application error

5 May 2011 by Johnnny07

Actually I'm running the foursquare Windows Phone 7 application in 4square.codeplex.com.. It was developed in the first version of WP7 tools before its latest update..So I migrated the assemblies and everything and now I have no compilation errors.. I still have a problem in running the...

how to get pixel with VS2010 c# for windows mobile 7

20 Jun 2011 by bagus bujangga

helo all,i am new in VS2010 c# for windows phone 7.i want to create a project to change color image to black and white (0 and 255), filtering end etc,i found code for convert color to grayscale, here my code:private void button2_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { ...

Rest Wcf service method does not refresh for every call in mvvm-windows phone 7

30 Jun 2011 by anushavarma

Hi,I have implemented one page which displays details in listbox based on condition from database.I used rest service to get all details to bind to list.I did this using Model-view-viewmodel in windows phone 7 with silverlight.It works fine for displaying details for first time.after i...

phone

MVVM

Receiving calls through a softphone for Asterisk PBX

25 Aug 2011 by Ic3m4n69

Hi everyone,I really hope someone out there can help me with my problem. I am trying to build a softphone application in C# for Windows OS. The client I am building it for is running an Asterisk PBX system. I'm about 80% complete with the project, i.e. users can login, make calls,...

phone

Receiving calls through a softphone for Asterisk PBX

2 Sep 2011 by Rick Bassham

Have you tried subscribing to the AgentCalled event on the ManagerConnection?

phone

How to disable window phone battery indicator

14 Sep 2011 by Manoj_0603514007

Hi,I need to change battery indicator in my window phone 7 project.I have not handled this , due to this my design getting alter and pages slide down.Please suggest me if any body has solution of this.I am using HTC HD7 for development.Regards,Manoj

Win7

Windows

phone

IMAP to get the e-mails synchronized between outlook and cell phone

8 Oct 2011 by Joan M

Hello all,I own a blackberry phone that can be connected to 10 e-mail accounts, my e-mail server doesn't include exchange server.My problem is as simple as "how to synchronize the e-mails sent and received to my accounts that can be received in different devices"; I mean: if an e-mail...

phone

about accelerator ,convert to keyboard key

22 Oct 2011 by reseweks

i am writing a phone's program .use phone to control raciecar on computer,i want to use accelerator to get ,x,y,z ,i can use them to control my keyboard up,down left and right key.

C#4.0

Windows

phone

about accelerator ,convert to keyboard key

24 Oct 2011 by RaisKazi

Your question is unclear, but let me try to make attempt of understanding it.If I am not misunderstood your Question, You are working on Windows Phone 7/7.5 Application. And you want to get "Accelerometer Input" (X,Y,Z) positions.Use AccelerometerReadingChanged Event. Try as below...

C#4.0

Windows

phone

How to freeze the UI for few seconds?

26 Oct 2011 by VigneshPT

I am creating a windows Phone 7 application. I want to freeze the UI for a few seconds. Should I use a timer? Calling the Thread.sleep() method isn't giving the proper result. Which timer should I use? Can someone give proper explanation?

Windows

Silverlight

phone

How to freeze the UI for few seconds?

26 Oct 2011 by OriginalGriff

Why would you want to do that? Normally, the problem is not freezing the UI...Why would you want to deliberately let the user think the phone has crashed for no good reason?

Windows

Silverlight

phone

Problem when loading images to buttons dynamically in Windows Phone application

29 Oct 2011 by VigneshPT

I am building a windows phone 7 application. I have two groups of three buttons p1b1,p1b2,p1b3 & p2b1,p2b2,p2b3 I am loading the images blue.png, red.png, yellow.png on a random basis to the buttons. Each button in a group should have different colors (i.e p1b1,p1b2,p1b3 should have three...

Windows

Silverlight

phone

Problem when assigning Background to Button control

29 Oct 2011 by VigneshPT

I am working on a windows phone 7 application.Assigning a new background to a button does not work properly when it is executed iteratively.I have a method which is called when the game is reset. All the buttons' backgrounds are changed to new ones. But this doesnt work properly....

Windows

Silverlight

phone