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Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Cheat Sheet
In this SilverlightShow article, Peter Kuhn sums up all of the most important key points of the WP7 application certification requirements in the form of a cheat sheet (available for print-out!).
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Learning how to use Live Tiles in WP7 Mango
Taking a look at how we can use Live Tiles in WP7 (Mango). WP7 Mango has introduced not only the ability to create Application Tiles via code but they have also added the ability to create Secondary...
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Windows Phone 7 - Getting Started w/ SQL CE
Taking a look at how to setup and use SQL Ce inside your WP7 Mango Applications. Prior to Mango being released developers had to resource to storing their data in isolated storage, but now with SQL CE...
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Windows Phone 7 - Creating and Using Associations w/ SQL CE
Taking another look at SQL CE on WP7 Mango. In this episode we will go a step further and learn how to setup relationships (aka associations) between our tables (aka models). We will focus on how to...
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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Security
In this SilverlightShow article, Andrea Boschin focuses on the important topic about the limitations of Windows Phone 7 and shows an example based on WCF from which you can for sure extract some...
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Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data
This article would be a natural continuation of Samidip Basu's previous post on “Connecting Azure and Windows Phone through OData” and show a different way of leveraging Azure cloud services for your...
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Solution for “The program can't start because MFPlat.dll is missing from your...
Are you facing any issue deploying your Windows Phone 7 application in the emulator or, are you facing any issue while opening the Windows Phone 7 emulator? Is it stating some System Error while...
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Know About WP7 System Tray - Tips to Show or Hide it
In Windows Phone 7, the System Tray is the small bar across the top of the screen in Portrait mode. It displays the Signal strength, Current time and Wi-Fi connection strength. In this post, we will...
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Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Connection detection and bandwidth
When you write a data aware application, where data is not locally accessible but is available across a network connection, you have an additional requirement to ensure the network connection is...
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What is Frame Rate Counter in WP7?
While working with Windows Phone 7 emulator, you might noticed that, in debug mode it shows some numeric values at the right side of the screen. So, what are those values and why that numeric bar is...
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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...
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Monthly Summary - September 2011 - 26 Posts You May Want to Read
During September 2011, we have seen a no. of product releases by Microsoft including Silverlight 5 RC, Expression Blend 5 Preview, Windows 8 Developer Preview, Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and...
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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...
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Know About WP7 Page Orientation and Supported Orientations
The root class of the Windows Phone 7 page includes two attributes called “Orientation” and “SupportedOrientations”. Those are actually enum values and provides you option to set the orientation of...
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Detecting System Information of WP7 Device
Sometime we want to show the System Information to the user, whether it is an Application or a simple Game. We need to show those system specific information to the Windows Phone 7 user by using an...
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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...
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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...
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How can you Add Network Connection Settings Page in your WP7 Application?
Do you want to integrate the network connection settings page (like: Airplane, Bluetooth, Cellular and/or WiFi) in your Windows Phone 7 application? Then this article will help you step-by-step to...
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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...
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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...
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