Category Archives: Tips & Tricks

Displaying image inside Panorama Title in Windows Phone applications

Posted on December 12, 2011 by eugenedotnet

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 →

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Injecting ViewModels to Views using a custom ViewModelLocator in Windows Phone

Posted on November 10, 2011 by eugenedotnet

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 →

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Making a POST call to a HTTPS url using HttpWebRequest

Posted on October 6, 2011 by eugenedotnet

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 →

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Creating reusable animations programmatically in Silverlight and Windows Phone

Posted on September 19, 2011 by eugenedotnet

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 →

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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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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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Creating a Horizontal ListBox in Silverlight and Windows Phone

Posted on February 16, 2011 by eugenedotnet

Creating horizontal ListBox element is obviously a pretty easy thing to do, but anyway I have decided to post XAML for that. Tweet

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