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Author Archives: eugenedotnet
Displaying image inside Panorama Title in Windows Phone applications
Although it might seem too obvious, but still many developers and designers forget that top-margin should be equal to 80 for the content inside Panorama Title(in my example bellow Margin=”0,80,0,0″ for Grid element). Bellow is the XAML markup that you … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Layout, Tips & Tricks, Windows Phone 7
Tagged layout, tutorials, windows phone 7, wp7
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Post-event summary of Windows Phone CodeCamp in Latvia
Another great Windows Phone code camp took place on a weekend (between 3rd and 4th of December, 2011) and this time in the lovely capital of Latvia: Riga. Once again there were many talented developers, designers, managers and mentors, who … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Events, Presentations, Tutorials, Windows Phone 7
Tagged Events, mentoring, presentation, speech, tutorials, windows phone 7, wp7
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Post-event summary of Windows Phone Code Camp in Estonia
I suppose it’s about time for me to write a short post-event summary report of Windows Phone Code Camp where I have participated as a coach and lecturer. As a lecturer I have delivered two Windows Phone related speeches: first … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Presentations, Windows Phone 7
Tagged codecamp, Eneta, estonia, Events, windows phone 7, wp7
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Injecting ViewModels to Views using a custom ViewModelLocator in Windows Phone
In one of my previous posts (IoC for Windows Phone: Ninject I have shown a simple IoC and DI tutorial using Ninject. In this tutorial will be based on previously developed code and extended that with a custom ViewModelLocator to … Continue reading
Posted in Development, DI, IoC, MVVM, Silverlight, Tips & Tricks, Windows Phone 7
Tagged di, ioc, mvvm, silverlight, tutorials, windows phone 7, wp7
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Windows Phone Code Camp in Estonia
Anyone who has a passion for Windows Phone platform, mobile development is welcome to join me and other WP7 enthusiasts at Tallinna Polütehnikum(Tallinn, Estonia) for 2-day Code Camp on 19-20 Nov. You will have a chance to develop your own … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Presentations, Windows Phone 7
Tagged codecamp, Events, presentation, windows phone 7, wp7
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IoC for Windows Phone: Ninject
As I have promised in one of my previous posts, I will spend some time explaining the differences between different Inversion of Control (IoC) supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone. In this post is about Ninject. I will also try … Continue reading
Posted in Development, IoC, Silverlight, Tutorials, Windows Phone 7
Tagged inversion of control, ioc, ninject, silverlight, tutorials, windows phone 7, wp7
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Making a POST call to a HTTPS url using HttpWebRequest
Here is a sample method I’ve used for making a POST(HTTP Method) call to a HTTPS url using an instance of HttpWebRequest class: Keep in mind that if your call does not have any content(request body) you still can not … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials, Web
Tagged .net, csharp, https, httpwebrequest, web
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Creating reusable animations programmatically in Silverlight and Windows Phone
As many of you know, I answer a lot of emails regarding Windows Phone development and last week I was asked to show how to create reusable Storyboards with animations programmatically in Silverlight (Windows Phone). Of course, there are plenty … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Silverlight, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials, Windows Phone 7
Tagged animation, silverlight, storyboard, windows phone, wp7
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QA: Changing the Border color of Grid element in Silverlight and Windows Phone
Yesterday I have received the following question by Juhee: I want to change the gray color of a grid to orange.I was able to change the thickness by changing the margin but do you know how to change the color … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Questions, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7
Tagged grid, layout, q&a, questions, silverlight, windows phone 7, wp7
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Summer vacation is now officially over
My long summer vacation has now come to an end. I have restored my energy levels and I am ready to continue blogging. My next series of posts will be covering Inversion Of Control (IoC) possibilities in Windows Phone environment. … Continue reading


