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Tag Archives: tutorials
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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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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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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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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Detecting theme background in Windows Phone 7 applications
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
Posted in Development, Themes, Tips & Tricks, Windows Phone 7
Tagged themes, tutorials, windows phone 7, wp7
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Binding Image, Brush or Color to Background property in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
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
Posted in Binding, Development, Tips & Tricks, Windows Phone 7
Tagged binding, brush, color, image, silverlight, tips&tricks, tutorials, windows phone 7, wp7
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Detecting and simulating low memory devices in Windows Phone 7 applications
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
Posted in Development, Optimization, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials, Windows Phone 7
Tagged memory, optimization, tips&tricks, tutorials, windows phone 7, wp7
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ItemsControl virtualization using VirtualizingStackPanel in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7
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
Posted in Custom Controls, Development, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7
Tagged silverlight, tutorials, ui virtualization, windows phone 7, wp7
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