Have you ever wondered how you should use Windows Phone 7 Tasks correctly? When you look through the examples on MSDN, in most cases you will find following structure: Task task = new Task(); try { task.PropertyA = “A”; task.PropertyB = “B”; task.PropertyC = “C”; task.Show(); } catch (System.InvalidOperationException ex) { MessageBox.Show(“An error occurred.”); } […]
August 15, 2012 Jeffrey Richter will lead a free webcast entitled “Lock-Free Thread Sychronization”. During the presentation Jeffrey Richter will be demonstrating issues associated with data sharing between threads. To participate in the presentation you must register on the organizer website. You can find there additional information about this event.
As promised I am publishing script that will close Zune and start WPConnect automatically. I have placed this script on my desktop and I start it each time I connect my Windows Phone to computer. Please find script in next part of post. […]
During application development very often developers need to check how application works. Sometimes only running application on phone is needed, sometimes developer needs to check code line by line in Visual Studio in debug session. In very rare scenarios, some problems can occur, that makes testing difficulty. I think that normal Windows Phone user gets used to that after connecting phone to computer by USB some features are being disabled. User cannot browse the Marketplace, take pictures, shoot movies, etc. The same restrictions apply to the software developer who wants to check how his application works. […]
Today another Microsoft product will have premiere. During the conference, Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco, Windows Phone 8 will be unveiled. I hope it will finally dispel any doubts about updates already available phones with Windows Phone 7.5 to the latest version. The conference will begin at 18.00 Polish time. Everybody will be able to follow it live on Channel 9.
I think that everyone who develop and share its software do this to achieve profits in long term. For one person satisfaction can be a profit. Somebody else wants to earn some money. In the case of Windows Phone developer can earn money by selling its application or publish ads. Both ways are extremely simple to implement. The only one problem is to find great number of people who will use our application. After looking at the analysis of application on Windows Phone Marketplace, we can discover that list of people who have succeed is very short. Moreover, we cannot [...]
Daily work with the platform Windows Phone brings many surprises. Very often you can meet with the situation, that many things are unspoken in the documentation and the programmer must by himself discover how something works. Update Mango for Windows Phone introduced a new version of Silverlight for platform. This update has added the ability to use StringFormat the data binding in a file XAML. Using this additional option is very simple: <TextBox Text="{Binding Path=Value, StringFormat=Currency: {0:c}}"/> After this line you should see the number formatted as a currency. The result when you run this code do not fully [...]
Currently created mobile applications can not run without Internet connection. We can provide unlimited number of usage examples of data transmission in applications. We are only limited by our imagination. By implementing this type of solution in applications, we very often forget about small thing, that network check query can be performed. This tiny thing is to check, if the phone has access to the network. Getting positive information about access to the network does not guarantee us, that we will have Internet connection. This information may be used to support situations that network is unavailable. […]
It seems to me, that each developer had to create at least once before good-looking user interface. This is a rather common problem, which is a challenge for people, that have no graphic skills. Creating an icon, logos and other graphics, not enough , comes with pain and it still takes a very long time. […]
All signs point, that Microsoft is getting closer to releasing the latest update for platform Windows Phone. From today there is available for download a new version of SDK which should be used for developing applications on the platform Windows Phone 7. As for the changes, this final version does not differ significantly from what was presented in the version CPT. In total, compared to the previous official version there are also only, cosmetic changes, that allow you to create and test applications for phones with less memory. Most important changes are: ability to create and test applications for the [...]
