Category Archives: Development

Passing values between Windows Phone 7 pages: Current context of Application

Posted on July 25, 2011 by eugenedotnet

Another approach for passing parameters and values between two Windows Phone 7 pages is in using a current context of application (i.e App.xaml.cs file). As it is for Page Instance approach and for QueryString approach this one also has several … Continue reading →

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Three properties that I use for almost every Windows Phone application

Posted on June 20, 2011 by eugenedotnet

In this post I will tell you which three properties I use for almost every of my Windows Phone applications. First property is used by me to determine if the application is running in trial mode or full mode. Second … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Themes, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials, Windows Phone 7 | 2 Comments

Detecting theme background in Windows Phone 7 applications

Posted on June 10, 2011 by eugenedotnet

As you have probably noticed Windows Phone 7 platform allows you to change the Background (Theme) in emulator and on real device. It can be accomplished in Settings -> Theme menu (check image bellow). As a developer I sometimes need … Continue reading →

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Binding Image, Brush or Color to Background property in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7

Posted on May 31, 2011 by eugenedotnet

I’ve decided to post a property I use to bind Image / Brush / Color hex to Background property of Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 control. First of all, do not use that property in every Background Binding case to … Continue reading →

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Detecting and simulating low memory devices in Windows Phone 7 applications

Posted on May 29, 2011 by eugenedotnet

Probably most of you have read Performance and Resource Management part of Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements v1.4 document concerning requirements to memory consumption. In particular, there is a sentence regarding low memory devices (which have only 256 MB … Continue reading →

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ItemsControl virtualization using VirtualizingStackPanel in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7

Posted on May 16, 2011 by eugenedotnet

Usually I am using ListBox control in my Windows Phone 7 Silverlight applications to display a scrollable list of child controls. ListBox offers UI virtualization, that means that UI is loading ListBox items on demand to increase the performance and … Continue reading →

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Binding text containing tags to TextBlock inlines using attached property in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7

Posted on April 19, 2011 by eugenedotnet

Lately I’ve had to bind a text in custom format(having different tags inside) to a TextBlock element for one of my Windows Phone 7 applications. The only option to bind such specific text to a normal TextBlock was in using … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Device Application Development

Posted on April 18, 2011 by eugenedotnet

More than two weeks ago I was awarded Microsoft’s Most Valued Professional (MVP) in Device Application Development. Frankly speaking, becoming a MVP was actually one of my dreams, which I’ve never thought will come true, therefore I am very pleased … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone 7 Touch and Sensors presentation for Eneta

Posted on March 29, 2011 by eugenedotnet

Few months have passed since my previous presentation for Eneta community and time has come to talk about something new. This time I have chosen two topics: Touch and Sensors. I think, both topics are very important for Windows Phone … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone 7 Navigation Issue “InvalidOperationException” or “No Fragment support”

Posted on March 11, 2011 by eugenedotnet

Several days ago I have received an interesting question for my Windows Phone 7 Application Bar article, where one of my readers has described an exception (InvalidOperationException, “No Fragment support right now”) occurred after the illegal navigation attempt(using Application Bar … Continue reading →

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