Articles having tag: WP7DEV

Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: Part 1

During the course of developing the SilverlightShow Windows Phone application, we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the experiences with the SilverlightShow readers, because it is a nice example of discussing a real-world application, with real-world...

Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics

In this blog post Rene Schulte shares the download graph of his quite successful Windows Phone app Pictures Lab and his conclusions.

[WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app. | Jonathan ANTOINE's thoughts on WPF, Silverlight, WinRT, NUI...

Something new which came with Mango is the ability for the developers to set the number of bits per pixel our app use. By doing this, your app will have shiny graphics! This increase the color depth and then the gradient are rendered really more smoothly. I...

SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone

In this article, we talk about how to leverage the new Live Connect APIs, in particular, the Live SDK in our Windows Phone applications. We'll see the usage of the Sign-in control to ask for user's authentication & seeking permission to use specific...

Creating a WP7 app: Listbox items of the same width

I love databound listboxes in WP7. I do. I really do. However, every time I come to the part of making a nice template for each item (i.e. shiny ugly orange border, etc.) I fail in having items of equal size.\xa0How can we solve this?Read on!

Windows Phone 7.5 - Use Background agents

One of the most important features added in Windows Phone 7.5 is the multithreaded environment. This missing feature was very criticized in the previous version, but the main reason of its lack was the high battery consumption that is usual in multithread phones....

WP7 : how to get the version number of my application ?

It's always a good thing to provide information to the users of your application. One thing which may seem trivial is the version number. In fact it's a really important information because with it the customers can send you a feedback with enough...

Download Free eBook: Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth

Boryana Miloshevska published this eBook "Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit in Depth" in WindowsPhoneGeek.com. The book includes hands on guide with code to demonstrate all the controls available in the Windows Phone 7.1 Toolkit (August 2011). \xa0 Click...

Windows Phone 7.1 - Local SQL Database

In the upcoming release of Windows Phone 7.1, Microsoft decided to add a Local Database implementation that is targeted to business applications and is created on top of SQL Server CE. This new feature completes the storage solutions available for the phone,...

Download Windows Phone 7.1 SDK RTW (All Language Web/Offline Installer)

Microsoft released Windows Phone 7.1 SDK tools yesterday, 28th September 2011. It's in RTW release, that means, it is released to web. Cliff Simpkins announced the release of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 in Windows Team Blog. In this post, find the link...