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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.
10 Jun 2012 by __Untitled
I am writing a GroupSMS app on Windows Phone, and I want to create a group and add some contacts into it, then serialize the group to isolatedstorage file, so that I can get the group information next time when app restart. My question is how can I Serialize and Deserialize List or...
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[^]
17 Feb 2013 by Abhinav S
The camera itself offers a few effects that you can apply to a photo.In addition, check out this third party here - PicFx[^].
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.
4 Nov 2013 by Abhinav S
You can look at an alternative - isolated storage.
31 Jan 2014 by Abhinav S
Tryhttp://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Generating_and_scanning_barcodes_on_Windows_Phone[^]http://silverlightzxing.codeplex.com/[^]
7 Dec 2014 by Abhinav S
Try How to: Delete Files and Directories in Isolated Storage[^].
20 Dec 2012 by Abhishek Pant
How To Create Android Live Wallpaper[^]
28 Nov 2013 by abhishekgoletar
hi there i am wp8 developer i am looking for application with movable controlsmeans any one can rearrange control at run time based on there requirement thank youabhishek goletargoletarabhishek8@live.com
28 Nov 2013 by abhishekgoletar
hi there, i have experience about Email client in WP8,also i have worked on it,the problem is only one and trust me it's very big one.how to attach files to email client in wp8,microsft even not provide the stuff for it.....any one has idea about itthanksabhishek...
6 Jan 2013 by Ace_Hardlight
Hi all, I need some serious help.I have a windows phone 8 application in c# and I need to be able to log in as a user and post a comment, as well as see which of my contacts are online. I don't want to physically navigate to facebook, just post comments from my app. I have read all the...
31 May 2012 by Adam David Hill
Is there a particular reason you're using ObservableCollection? Instead you could do something like this:namespace Medical_Representative_Project2{ public partial class Antocids : PhoneApplicationPage { public Antocids() { InitializeComponent(); ...
17 Jul 2012 by adipas
hi I developing an application ON WINDOWS PHONE 7 where to pull data from one WCF , I Want to displays data dynamically in a list WINDOWS PHONE 7..how build dynamically list box?
5 Feb 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
The exception is telling you that the package you're going to install (hopefully through NuGet) has a dependency package that must be present in order to use this package. If you're unable to download that (dependency) package from NuGet, you can directly install that package. But from the...
31 Jan 2013 by ajitha.pusapati
Hi..my project having var mystring = Android.getDeviceId() it return unique id to mystring variable.that home page i just show in windows phone 7 web browser. Android.getDeviceId() not working in windows phone so i have to inject some another js function hear, which is return string.i...
11 May 2015 by Alamgir Hossan
I've developed web application using visual studio 2008 and right at this moment I would like to add one more interface which can scan QR code using smart phone camera to retrieve data.Can anyone help me to give me an idea or sample source to do this?Thanks in advance.
25 Dec 2014 by Aldimer
How I can use To Do List on a PC and my smartfhones and tablets, (Windows 7, android, windows phone and iOS?regardsAldimer
17 Jul 2012 by Alex Foster
Hi,I am trying to read a value from isolated storage and perform a function based on the value.For example if the value is true I will then load some values. However all I get is Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'float'Here is the first part of my code:private void...
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....
28 Sep 2012 by AM117
Hey guys, hope you're well.I'm a fairly average programmer but relatively new to Windows Phone 7. I wanna make an app in which there is an indoor map of a building. Problem is, Bing Indoor Maps are only for USA buildings thus far. Is there any way to utilise Bing Maps for a custom map? I...
10 Jun 2014 by AM117
Hey guys,I hope I don't annoy too much with what I ask, but I simply wanna know how to get started with Mono. I'll break down what I know and my goals:1) I want to make apps using C# for all the three major platforms. For example, I build for Windows Phone and I want it to also run on...
2 Feb 2013 by Anand Gunasekaran
The following Links may help to you![Voicent Gateway Visual Basic Simple Interface][How to Make Telephone Calls With Visual Basic]
29 Dec 2011 by Andrew Piotrowski
Ok. I have used this in my app :#region private members bool runsUnderLock; bool isRunningUnderLock; bool hasUserAgreedToRunUnderLock; bool isRestartRequired; #endregion #region public properties public bool RunsUnderLock { ...
5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel
This tip resume the majority types of conversion that we need while developing
5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel
We always wonder how we can store pictures in database
5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel
you can now crop Image with specified size equally
5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel
Link between Accelerometer and composant in xaml
6 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel
Get information of any website you want
6 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel
The easy way to use speech Recognition by converting Speech to Text
8 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel
The easiest way to animate your object using Storyboard
11 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel
The easiest way to drag and drop Image using Gestlure
10 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel
It's Time to make Money with your Apps
5 Apr 2014 by Antonio Massafra
I try to build an app on windows phone that is able to launch itself by scheduler agent at determinate time , using an Uri Protocol Sharing, but i get this exception: "Access denied. Applications executing in background are not allowed to launch uris.".Someone can help me? Exist another way to...
11 Feb 2013 by Anurag Sinha V
Hi...Seems you are pretty ambitious...gud fr u.. :)1)First of all, for your first requirement, a DB driven corporate application which you wana run on multiple platforms, I am afarid one single language won't suffice.For Windows, you may go for C# as the dev language, SQL as backend...
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...
9 Nov 2011 by aounali
acan any one Post a code for the development of windows phone 7 path tracking???
21 Dec 2011 by aounali
can any 1 tell me email coding that how to send email from windows phone 7 ??? :(
26 Dec 2011 by aounali
hello awl..i 've developed and aap which sends email through the windows phone 7 plateform...i want to run that app on the background of the screen...means to say it should be invisible to the user that this app is running on his mobile so plz help me what should i do????
6 Jan 2012 by aounali
please any 1 can help me,,, i m developing windows phone 7 app which will takes gps cordinates and mail it 2 me at my email server.... e-g abc@gmail.comnow i want help in coding that how i will take gps cordinates and mail it... NOTE : i m connected to internet 24/7 .....through my Mobilephone
11 Jul 2012 by aounali
Hi, i m Developing a project related to the Social network, My Project is almost done but only one feature i am to add that is video calling to the friends, i've googled many sites but unable to get a suitable solutioin , i've found this link...
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.
30 Jan 2011 by Ashish Kaila
Synergy is a platform toolkit that unleashes the power of WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 platforms. In this blog I will discuss the Windows 7 phone part of this library and how it helps to somehow converge development practices to that of WPF and leverage data binding capabilities.
17 Jan 2014 by Ashish679
I am creating a youtube video downloader for windows phone. Why I am not able to download page source (HTML) of youtube. My Code is:private void Button_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { HttpWebRequest request =...
19 Feb 2013 by ashokdamani
i'v created a web service, and i am currently using it to display the data on a html panel (html table on .aspx page). now i want to make a windows phone application, which will display the data on the phone screen.but i m new to windows phone & have no idea about canvas & display methods in...
31 Mar 2015 by askersuku
How to divide HTML content into multi pages on Windows Phone. I dont wanna scroll vertical when display data on the application. Can anyone help me?
5 Feb 2015 by Avenger1
Hii installed visual studio 2013 update 4 and now i want to write windows phone codebut in windows phone design it give me errorthis is error:*************************************System.ExceptionPackage failed updates, dependency or conflict validation.Windows cannot install...
9 Dec 2012 by Avinash6474
Hi All,I have an android application which I designed using a phone gap. I have html pages with graphics , images and many functinality.I want to design a HTML pages in such a way that it will fit the designs in Android phones, Andoid TAb, iPhone , IPAD etc.In application I have...
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...
13 Feb 2016 by Ayyaz Zafar
I am working on a mobile application in phonegap. I am at the stage to decide weather write custom jquery code (for things like sliding screens/pages) or I its better to use jquery mobile or angular js?If so then which framework should we use ? jQuery-Mobile or Angular.js?What I have...
3 Apr 2012 by bafled in baltimore
Whoa, I do apologize, I thought that this had been deleted. This was my first post before I spent the morning researching on this website and learning protocol. I also have some remote server issues and what was posted is not exactly what I wrote.That being said, I am perhaps a novice and...
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) { ...
14 Sep 2012 by bagus bujangga
Hello.I don't understand about socket in Windows Phone 7 mango.My project is sending message from device WP7 to my PC and sending message from my PC to my WP7.I found simple code to do it. On PC side using console application, this sample just can send from WP7 to mp PC, in console...
23 Jun 2012 by banxman
Hi,I'm building a Windows Phone application and my client has given me a list of languages that he would like the App to be localized for.The problem is that some of those languages are not supported by Windows Phone and I then decided to check out the list of supported langauges which...
30 Oct 2014 by BatataSharp
Afaik that using MediaStreamSource i can playback h264 file in windows phone, but i dont find anything about it. The only sample that i saw and really help me to starts, was it:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh180779(v=vs.95).aspxBut i wasnt luck... Please help me, i need to...
10 Aug 2014 by beljk
helo guys .. i wanr to store data in session and get it again from another page then timedout thia session
10 Aug 2014 by beljk
please in windows phone 8.1. and c# and i want to disable button when session end
27 Oct 2013 by Bernhard Häussermann
A set of source files that extends the UITableView so that it has sections that can be collapsed and expanded.
7 May 2014 by Bhatt Aniruddh
hi there,i have created simple "hello world" application in visual studio 2008 using smart device. for my windows phone.now how can i get exe and install it in to my cell phone.i want to run my application on my phone.Thanks,
30 Nov 2011 by biki66
Hi,I am creating a windows phone 7 app with a DB server and a WCF tier using Azure.When i try and bring back a user name using their id I cannot do so. The async web service call makes the call and the completed event handler returns the result but always returns null.When I use the...
12 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please try this code// Create a red rectangle that will be the target // of the animation. Rectangle myRectangle = new Rectangle(); myRectangle.Width = 200; myRectangle.Height = 200; ...
12 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
I think this site will help you.http://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Category:Maps_on_Windows_PhoneThanks,Bilaal
12 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please use web view to see the added data in your html panel.Thanks,Bilaal
18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please kindly post your code for solutionThanks,Bilaal
18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please check the below links.Windows Phone 7 development http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg598932.aspx[^]Windows Phone 8 developmenthttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj714071(v=vs.105).aspx[^]Thanks,Bilaal
18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please use Tile Update Manager Class.For more go to the below link.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br208622.aspx[^]Thanks,Bilaal
18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
These links will help...
18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please check this.http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/dbdd71e6-779d-4ba0-8906-9535511d8e55/picture-effects-on-windows-phone-7[^]Thanks,Bilaal
18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
1.Integrate Facebook into your phone applicationhttp://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Integrate_Facebook_to_Your_Windows_Phone_Application[^]2.Facebook Authentication in windows phone...
18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please check the below link.I think it will help you.http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7203770/how-to-deserialize-json-in-asp-net[^]Thanks,Bilaal
18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please check this link Audio recording and playback optionshttp://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Audio_recording_and_playback_options_in_Windows_Phone[^]Thanks,Bilaal
18 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please check this sample applicationhttp://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Google_Landmarks_on_a_Bing_Map_for_Windows_Phone[^]Thanks,Bilaal
19 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please try this code.private void MyClick(object sender, GestureEventArgs e){ TextBlock txtBlk = new TextBlock(); txtBlk (TextBlock )sender; String txtBlkText = txtBlk.Text; }Thanks,Bilaal
19 Sep 2013 by Bilaal John S
Here is a Sample Bing Map application,I hop it will help you to start.http://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Bing_map_API_with_Nokia_Map_and_OpenStreetMap[^]Thanks,Bilaal
8 Oct 2013 by Bilaal John S
Please goes to this web address http://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Category:Windows_Phone_8[^]Thanks,Bilaal
9 Oct 2013 by Bilaal John S
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/silverlight/en-US/4c349bb1-6f90-4cfa-9e4f-868010071b6b/will-silverlight-plugins-run-on-windows-phone-75?forum=silverlightwinphone[^]Thanks,Bilaal
16 Dec 2013 by Bilaal John S
here are some useful links.http://www.geekchamp.com/forums/windows-phone-development/how-to-add-attachments-programatically-to-email-in-a-windows-phone-8-app[^]Thanks, Sarath s
17 Dec 2013 by Bilaal John S
here is WinRT Toolkit http://winrtxamltoolkit.codeplex.com/[^]
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...
11 Feb 2013 by BoazKonig
Hoping someone can help me. I am researching options for a few projects. I am fairly new to programming languages so I would like to choose a solid platform to learn. I have four projects to start as follows:Create a database driven Corporate Application that includes modules for User...
11 Nov 2011 by BobJanova
This seems like it should be utterly trivial, it's just two paths each of which includes two lines and two arcs. I haven't actually done it in WPF, since I mostly work in WinForms, but assuming you can paint a custom control it is nothing more than (half way to pseudocode)protected override...
20 Dec 2012 by Boudi AlSayed
Hi, I want to know how to make Android interactive live wallpapers, and 3d wallpapers?
15 Jan 2015 by Brady Kelly
I have a new Android smart phone, the Galaxy Trend Neo. It's like a scaled down S4/S5, with most features, but lower quality, like a relatively terrible screen resolution etc.I know how to use all the features, but I find myself stuck on common tasks, like selecting text to copy and paste,...
15 Jan 2015 by Brady Kelly
Extremely often when I click a link on my Android 4.2.2 phone, it asks me which browser to use, and whether to use it always or not. My repeated choice of 'always' is always ignored, and then I get a little message box telling me to go to "Task manager", and choose "Clear defaults". I can find...
25 Jan 2015 by Brady Kelly
I have had a Galaxy Grand New for about 3 weeks now. Bought after about six months of loneliness and misery, to replace my lost Galaxy S4. Looks like it does more than the S4, but superlatives are no bedfellows of this fine device.Apart from phone specifics not Handled by Android, there is...
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.
25 Jun 2013 by Chandrakantt
you can get details of Windows Phone development in below given linkhttp://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Learn_Windows_Phone_7_Development_in_31_Days[^]For Windows 8 Phone development you can get information from below linkhttp://developer.windowsphone.com/en-us[^]
30 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado
You can't do that. You cannot change normal behavior of the battery indicator, signal indicator.Regards.
23 Aug 2012 by Christian Amado
Right click on your Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit.dll reference. Go to properties and search for Local Copy. Set to True.I think you missing another dll. Let me remember that and I'll improve this solution ;)Hope it helps.
29 Aug 2012 by Christian Amado
You need to investigate about TAPIHope it helps
15 May 2012 by Christophe Bertrand
PriorityObject : more fluent than PriorityBinding in list context (as ListBox), and compatible with Silverlight and WP7.
6 Jan 2013 by ChrisTopherus
Hi,there is a SDK that i would prefer.http://csharpsdk.org/[^]
21 Nov 2011 by cknh
When I call customers with a phone service different than what I use the caller id is incorrect. How do I get this corrected?
13 Feb 2013 by Clerissa Serrao
I am creating an image editor app. I want to allow the user to change the hue/saturation/lightness of an image. How can I do it? Is there HSLColor class available for windows phone application?
16 Dec 2017 by CloudFS
Hi, so what i am trying to do is to use a gsm modem or a phone connected to a computer to send ussd code for example : *150# and receive an answerafter that if the answer is a menu for example : 1 for balance and 2 for offers i would like to respond by 1 or 2 and get an answer again .....
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.
19 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow