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Category Archives: Windows Phone 7
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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Simulating GPS position changes using Reactive Extensions in Windows Phone environment
It has become much easier to simulate GPS position change events having Location tool in Emulator, where you are able to pin positions on a map, but for some Unit Tests and mock services it is important to simulate GPS … Continue reading
Posted in Sensors, Windows Phone 7
Tagged gps, reactive extentions, rx, sensors, tutorials, 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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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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Passing values between Windows Phone 7 pages: Current context of Application
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
Posted in Development, Windows Phone 7
Tagged silverlight, tutorials, windows phone 7, wp7
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