Category: Windows Phone Dev
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Local Database application for windows Phone
Version: Windows Phone 7.1, Mango, 7.5 [at time of writing this post this post was applicable to said versions] Local data base support in windows phone 7.1 is enabled via LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL enables application to use isolated storage as database. Each application is having own isolated storage and LINQ to SQL…
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Fetching selected value from List Box in Silverlight
Let us say you have a list box as below. You have a requirement that on click of button fetch value of the same row button belongs to. For example if you are clicking second cross, you should able to fetch value Pinal, SqlServer , 500 from the list box. In above list box There…
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Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone Application Performance analysis
When you create an application along with killer user interface, you ought to consider various performance parameters of your application as well. There are certain eligibility performances criteria, your application must pass to be accepted in the Marketplace. These criteria may check your application 1. For maximum memory usage 2. Launching time of your application…
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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 three…
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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 line…
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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 and…
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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 common…
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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 the…
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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 discussed…
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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 and…