Category Archives: Tutorials

W16: Detecting and handling multi-touch events in Windows Phone 7 applications

In this tutorial I am going to describe a very simple application I’ve developed while playing around with multi-touch functionality in Windows Phone 7. Application is going to detect and handle multi-touch event for 4 touch points simultaneously. Image bellow … Continue reading

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W14: Multi-column StackPanel for Windows Phone 7

Few days ago I have decided to develop multi-column StackPanel control for one of my projects. Basically, I have created many StackPanels in horizontal orientation inside a StackPanel with vertical orientation. It should be a very simple solution and I … Continue reading

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W13: Playing sounds in Windows Phone 7 applications

In this short tutorial I will show how to play sounds in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight applications. You will be surprised that for playing sounds in Silverlight application you will need to add a XNA Framework reference to your project. … Continue reading

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W12: Creating a simple Media Player for Windows Phone 7

In this tutorial I will create a simple Media Player application for playing various videos (e.g in .wmv format). I am going to use MediaElement control as a media container for a player. I will also create few buttons to … Continue reading

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W03: Page Orientation in Windows Phone 7

In this short tutorial I will show how to operate with Page Orientation in Windows Phone 7 applications. Tweet

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W11: Navigation in Windows Phone 7 apps

In this lesson I am going to describe some ways of using Windows Phone 7 Frame and Page navigation. Also I will show how to use or even override Back button functionality. Tweet

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W10: Determining license mode in Windows Phone 7 apps

In this post I will show how to separate trial license functionality from full license functionality in Windows Phone 7 applications. Application submitted to a marketplace could be provided with a trial version, so any user can try it before … Continue reading

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W09: Twitter Search application for Windows Phone 7

In this lesson I will create a simple Twitter search application for Windows Phone 7. Basically, tutorial is very similar to my previous my RSS tutorial, but instead of RSS feed, I am going to use one of the Twitter … Continue reading

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W08: RSS Reader for Windows Phone 7

In this lesson I will create a simple RSS(Really Simple Syndication) Reader for Windows Phone 7. I will use Linq-To-XML for reading a RSS feed. User interface will contain a Textbox to enter an URL of a RSS Feed and … Continue reading

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W07: Windows Phone 7 Application Bar

In this lesson I will show few ways how to add an application bar to your Windows Phone 7 application. Creating an application bar is a very important part of development for windows phone as it increases a speed of … Continue reading

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