Tag Archives: tutorials

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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Passing values between Windows Phone 7 pages: Destination page instance within OnNavigatedFrom method

Posted on March 4, 2011 by eugenedotnet

Another appropriate way for passing data from one page to another during the navigation is in setting up destination page properties (or variables) within OnNavigatedFrom method of source page. Tweet

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Passing values to Windows Phone 7 pages: URI paremeters and QueryString

Posted on March 3, 2011 by eugenedotnet

From my point of view specifying parameters and their values in URI (QueryString) is probably the easiest way to pass data from one page to another during the Navigation. In this post I am going to cover this approach for … Continue reading →

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W18: Difference between GoBack method and Navigate method of NavigationService in Windows Phone 7

Posted on February 14, 2011 by eugenedotnet

Recently I have noticed that not many Windows Phone 7 developers know the difference between NavigationService.GoBack() method and NavigationService.Navigate(..Uri..) method (in case it leads to the previous page). I will explain the main difference in this tutorial. Tweet

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W17: Windows Phone 7 System Tray

Posted on January 31, 2011 by eugenedotnet

System Tray is an important part of Windows Phone 7 platform as it displays critical system information and notifications to the user. In this post I will cover basic functionality of system tray, explain how to hide/show system tray in … Continue reading →

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

Posted on January 28, 2011 by eugenedotnet

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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W15: Displaying Subtitles using Timeline Markers in Windows Phone 7 media applications

Posted on January 10, 2011 by eugenedotnet

In this tutorial I will show my custom implementation of subtitles using Timeline Markers. Timeline Markers are usually used with SmoothStreamingMediaElement, but in my tutorial I am going to use TimelineMarker and TimelineMarkerCollection classes for my custom Media Player control. … Continue reading →

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W14: Multi-column StackPanel for Windows Phone 7

Posted on January 1, 2011 by eugenedotnet

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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Windows Phone 7 Serialization: sharpSerializer

Posted on December 28, 2010 by eugenedotnet

Hopefully, it will be my last post regarding different types of Windows Phone 7 serialization. I have chosen sharpSerializer for today. I find this serializer quite interesting, because it is very easy to use and it is good at performance. … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Json.NET

Posted on December 23, 2010 by eugenedotnet

After receiving several requests to add Json.NET (custom solution for Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight serialization) to my Windows Phone 7 Serialization Comparison I have decided to analyze this type of serialization. In this post I am going to demonstrate … Continue reading →

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