Monthly Archives: November 2010

Windows Phone 7 Serialization: XmlSerializer

Currently I am looking for the best solution for object serialization in Windows Phone 7 environment. I will begin my quest with XML Serialization using XmlSerializer Class (popular solution in Silverlight). In this post I will show how to serialize … Continue reading

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Tips & Tricks: Opening XAML View by default in Visual Studio

During last year I have developed several Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 projects using both Visual Studio 2008 (for Silverlight) and Visual Studio 2010 (for WP7 and Silverlight). Dealing with those projects I had to create and change a lot … Continue reading

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Windows Phone 7 Push Notification Basics

In this post I am going to explain the basics of Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications. What? Why Push Notifications? Types of Push Notifications? Tweet

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Insert Script Generator for Microsoft SQL Server

Many months ago I had to find a way to generate insert scripts for several database tables to populate those tables with data later (during the creation of new database instance). I haven’t found any good solutions in Internet or … Continue reading

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Isolated Storage for Windows Phone 7

I have created a small Windows Phone Isolated Storage helper-class. It contains methods for creating/deleting directories and writing/reading/deleting files. Each of those methods is static and have enough comments to understand the usage. Same class can be also used in … Continue reading

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Default Text for a TextBox in Windows Phone 7 apps

In this post I will implement a Default Text property for a Windows Phone 7 TextBox control. This property could be useful in such applications like Twitter, Rss Reader clients etc. Take a look at webcast bellow. Tweet

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XML to XSD Scheme Tool

I would like to share one tool that I find very useful. Tool simply generates XSD Scheme from a XML file. All you have to do is to provide system with a path to XML file as an input parameter … Continue reading

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