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 applicationContinueContinue reading “Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone Application Performance analysis”

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”

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”

Smooth Streaming on Windows Phone 7

Read Smooth Streaming in Silverlight here This post is walkthrough on enabling smooth streaming of media over IIS and then stream over Windows Phone 7 client. There are very good documentation available on IIS official site to have a better understanding of smooth streaming. So I am not touching theoretical concept behind smooth streaming inContinueContinue reading “Smooth Streaming on Windows Phone 7”

Viewing Flickr Images on Windows 7.1 Phone or Mango Phone

In this post I will show you how you can create a Photo Viewer from images of the Flickr Service. Flickr Service Flickr expose a REST based feed to access images. You can find information about Flickr public feed at below link. http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/docs/photos_public/ Public images feed can be find at http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne Expected Output Approach CallContinueContinue reading “Viewing Flickr Images on Windows 7.1 Phone or Mango Phone”