In Build couple of interesting stuff on Windows Azure got announced. They are as below, Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 Download: http://watwindows8.codeplex.com/ It helps to create Metro style applications that may harness capability of Windows Azure . This toolkit contains Application creation guidance Tooling support for Visual studio project template CodeContinueContinue reading “Announcement for Windows Azure at Build : What is new ?”
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Silverlight 5 Multi Column and Linked Text
If you are designer of text and love to play around text formatting’s, then you would love to use Multi Columns and Link text in Rich Text Box. This feature gives your ability to display overflowed content in next box or column rather than using scroll bar to read through all the content. While workingContinueContinue reading “Silverlight 5 Multi Column and Linked Text”
Context switching in Windows Phone 7
Note : This post has not adhered to the best practice to acheive Context Switching….. This is not best practice Very first let us understand what I mean by word “Context Switching “here? Context switching in context of this post is essentially, navigate back to the page from where application got deactivated. There are threeContinueContinue reading “Context switching in Windows Phone 7”
Getting URL of current page in Windows Phone dynamically through code
Have you ever come across the requirement to fetch the URL of content current displaying on? Let us say there are 5 pages in your application and user is navigating across them. At any point of time if you want to fetch the URL of current page you can very much do that. Above lineContinueContinue reading “Getting URL of current page in Windows Phone dynamically through code”
Setting start page of Windows Phone dynamically through code
I will start with saying , this post is small and sweet J I was working and come across a requirement to set start page of Windows Phone Application through code or dynamically. Essentially this one line of code will set the start page of the application. Say, you have a page called Page1.xaml andContinueContinue reading “Setting start page of Windows Phone dynamically through code”
Delete Secondary Tiles in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone
Before we will see the way to delete secondary tiles, I strongly suggest you to read these two articles Live Tiles in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango phone Restore and Preserve Page State for Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone Assume we are navigating to a page called Page1.xaml from the secondary tile. A commonContinueContinue reading “Delete Secondary Tiles in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone”
Restore and Preserve Page State for Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone
In this post we will show you the way to Restore and Preserve Page state for windows phone application page. Let us put some control on the phone application page. To bind values of these controls, let us create Data class as below, There are three properties to bind values to three controls of theContinueContinue reading “Restore and Preserve Page State for Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone”
CRUD operation on Windows Azure table storage as WCF Service
You may have come across requirement of performing CRUD operation on Windows Azure table storage many times. If you have encapsulated functions performing CRUD operation on Azure Table Storage as operation contract of WCF Service then any type of client can work against azure table storage. You may always want to architecture your application asContinueContinue reading “CRUD operation on Windows Azure table storage as WCF Service”
Schedule the Tile update in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone
Read here about Live Tiles in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango phone You may have a requirement to schedule the update of the tiles. It is very much possible in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango phone. You can set UpdateIntravel as below, You can set UpdateRecurrence as below, In last post we discussedContinueContinue reading “Schedule the Tile update in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone”
Live Tiles in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango phone
In Windows Phone 7 Live tiles was only possible through Push notification. However Windows Phone 7.5 (code name: Mango) allows to update, create primary and secondary tiles without push notification. In this post, we will walkthrough on the same. To create and update live tiles essentially you need to work with below classes StandardTileData andContinueContinue reading “Live Tiles in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango phone”
Dhananjay Kumar 