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Monthly archive July, 2011

My favourite features in Windows Phone Mango

Just downloaded and installed the Windows Phone 7 Mango Build (7712) for Developers and the Windows Phone 7 Mango really looks good.

Here are my 5 favorite features in Windows Phone Mango 1. Live Messenger and Facebook Chat It is Read More →

MSDN Windows Phone “How Do I” Video Series for Mango from MSDev

Msdev has released the new video tutorial series each of 15 minutes length that explains the Windows Phone Mango Development . Following are the list of videos in the series

RAD Studio World Tour

Embarcadero is organizing an event RAD Studio World Tour that is scheduled to be held on 17th August, 2011 in Mumbai and August 18, 2011 in Bangalore. The Event provides in-depth demonstration of the latest developer tools Read More →

SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Kit

Microsoft has published the SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Kit which can be downloaded from MSDN site The training kit is designed for the developers with knowledge of Windows Phone 7 and Sharepoint 2010 development . Also know more about Windows Phone 7 and Sharepoint 2010 from the below Read More →

Windows Phone People Hub – Live Tiles and Contact History

Last week, Microsoft's Windows Phone Team had published few videos that introduce one of the Developers from the Windows Phone Team who provides some overview of the features in Mango. In one of my previous posts, i mentioned about Microsoft demonstrating Windows Phone 7 Mango: People Hub: Social Notifications & Filtering Here's Read More →

Its Windows 7 and not Windows Phone 7 for this Mobile

Fujitsu today announced the new Windows 7 F-07C Mobile Phone which will be available in Japan from NTT DOCOMO.Inc from July 23, 2011 . Note that its not the new Windows Phone 7 but Windows 7. The Phone is equipped with the Windows 7, Intel Atom Processor and also a Read More →

How to Pass data between Pages in Windows Phone ?

The NavigationContext provides the QueryString collection which can be used in the destination page to get the data from the URL . To Send the Data to the different form , the source page has to pass the parameters via URL like Page2.xaml?name=senthil . You can send multiple parameters with the help of Read More →

Microsoft demonstrates Windows Phone 7 Mango : People Hub: Social Notifications & Filtering

Microsoft has posted a new WP7 Mango video in its YouTube Channel (Windows Phone) that demonstrates a number of features and updates . In this video , Program Manager for Windows Phone communication Group - Staurt Bottom talks about the Twitter and LinkedIn integration to the Windows Phone 7 Mango . Stuart Read More →

New Dashboard features in Windows Phone Marketplace

Just logged in to my App hub (Windows Phone) Marketplace account to see a clean dashboard in my Profile. There was a Service Upgrade for the App Hub yesterday and now this includes some cool features and changes. Some of these includes the
  • Modified Dashboard layout.
  • Better Reporting for the App Downloads
  • Better Notifications for Read More →

Webinar – Tips for Easy Unit Testing

Typemock is organising a webinar on July 26, 2011(Tuesday) from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT on the topic "Tips for Easy Unit Testing " . Struggle with legacy code? Code quality? Heard about unit testing but not sure how it can help you develop or help your development team? This webinar Read More →

Differences in Default Naming of a control for WP7 in Expression Blend and Visual Studio

This might be a simple blog post that most of the developers would have seen it but would not have given a thought in to it when developing the Windows Phone App in Expression Blend and Visual Studio. When you create a new control on the Windows Phone Page in Visual Read More →

Nokia ‘s Bubble Level Silverlight v1.0 for Windows Phone

The Nokia Developer ( Resource Information ) now includes a Tool “Bubble Level Silverlight v1.0” which demonstrates the use of accelerometer sensors to calculate the inclination of the device. You can download the sourcecode sample here This application was Read More →

MCPD for Windows Phone Developers

Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Certification (MCPD) for Windows Phone Developers which helps to validate the candidate's knowledge and skills on designing and developing Applications for the Windows Phone Platform. To earn the MCPD for Windows Phone, the candidate should pass the below three required exams

Deploying your App to Windows Phone Device

The Windows Phone Emulator provides most of the functionalities for the developers to test the App. But, it’s always better to test the App on the real device. To do this, the developers should have the Zune software installed as well as unlock the Windows Phone with the developer account from Read More →

Retrieve the screen resolution of Windows Phone 7 using c#

The Current Windows Phone 7 devices provides the screen resolution of 480 X 800 pixels . Microsoft might introduce another resolution (320x480 ) . It is easier to find this resolution via the WP7 SDK. You can retrieve this screen resolution from the Windows Phone via the Current.Host.Content defined in the Application Read More →

Bee Mobile Metropolis controls for Windows Phone 7

Bee Mobile has announced the Bee Mobile Metropolis controls for Windows Phone 7 which currently includes 3 silverlight components which includes
  • Book Control - which enables the developers to create the UI where the users can flip Read More →

Delphi everywhere – Mac, iOS , Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone …

Just found an interesting comment from David Intersimone in one of his Blog post "Want more….Food" in Sip from the Firehose ( David I’s (David Intersimone) Embarcadero blog about programming, languages, databases, history, and more. ) .
"We are putting Delphi (and C++Builder) everywhere this year and over the next Read More →

GoForward in Your Windows Phone Application

The Developers can use the NavigationServices to navigate from one form to another in Windows Phone . This class also provides functions GoBack that simulates the Hardware backbutton . Here's a simple example that demonstrates the GoBack . Read More →

MCTS 70-599 Pro: Designing and Developing Windows Phone Applications is now available

The MCTS 70-599 Pro , a certification exam for the windows phone 7 developers on designing and developing windows phone applications is now available in the prometric testing centres . As per the Microsoft Learning site  , the Published date is still July 14 , 2011 ( In development ) . Read More →

How to convert the Windows Phone App from 7.1 to 7.0 ?

Yesterday , i was trying to open the properties of my Windows Phone 7 Project and by mistake ,i converted it to Windows Phone 7.1 .

With few minutes of work , i reverted it back to Read More →
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