Today I will try to describe the technique used rarely to find bugs. It involves the use of second instance Visual Studio to find errors in the first. Looking at the last sentence, you can begin to think about how to look for errors in Visual Studio can help you find bugs in our program. It should be realized, that really Visual Studio incorporates our code. And our goal is to trace the activities of this code. […]
Visual Studio has a lot of options, that allow you to customize the tools to individual user needs. Thanks to this, your daily work are becoming more enjoyable and more effective. Unfortunately, if you want to change the way of search result presentation you will encounter the problem. The Visual Studio settings do not contain such option, which would allow to change it. I wonder how many people is annoyed by the standard layout of search results window. […]
At the beginning of the week Microsoft published the official version of the tools to build applications and games for Windows Phone Mango – Windows Phone SDK 7.1. The latest version of the environment can be downloaded from Microsoft Download Center.
During development programs for Windows Phone 7 I have met quite often with the problem of icons. I’m not a graphic designer and making a decent icon for the program took me too long. The first attempts to look for an icon in the Internet ended in failure. Of course, I was looking for free solutions. The only think, what I have found it was a set of icons provided by Microsoft. […]
By creating programs, very often use various libraries created by others. As long as the code is created for its own, do not look at it as a library used was prepared. The first moment, when he begins to pay attention to it to decide to publish a solution for larger audience. At this point, begin to appear mean security code. The easiest way is to sign the resulting files. And here you may receive the first issue. It seams, that in order to compile the program receive the following message: Assembly generation failed — Referenced assembly ‘Foo’ does not [...]
Today I want to move on selling the applications written for Windows Phone 7. It seems to me, that each person creates any software wants, in addition to the satisfaction of doing something useful, obtain financial benefits. Depending on the model of sales, there are different ways to make the applications developed. However, the, in the case of phones with Windows Phone 7 the most common are the following two: ads, sales of Windows applications Phone Marketplace. In this article I would like to address specifically the second way – sales application Windows Phone Marketplace. […]
Sometimes a little can significantly improve mood. This thing today was the discovery of a hardware keyboard emulation in the emulator Windows Phone 7. This feature allows you to enable the ability to type characters into the emulator using an ordinary computer keyboard instead of the screen. To switch the keyboard, just press Pause / Break on a computer keyboard. At this point, should disappear visible on the screen keyboard emulation and receive the possibility to enter characters from the keyboard connected to your computer. This functionality is to allow the simulation of the hardware keyboard to open the phone [...]
Playing with some of Windows Phone I found the problem, which was quite often reported in case control TextBox. Error is ridiculous – emulator event is raised twice. This error in my project appeared in the controls TextBlock and handling click. […]
According to a forecast prepared by Stela Bokun with Pyramid Research year 2013 to be a breakthrough for mobile system Windows Phone. This is the first time the system Microsoft Windows Phone to beat the system Google Android in terms of market share. Both the phones with the system BlackBerry OS and Apple iOS according to forecasts, will remain far behind the two leading players. […]
When creating an application WPF sometimes you need to write your own methods Main(). When viewing files in the walkthrough you come across files *.xaml and linking them *.xaml.cs and code files *.cs. Unless you need to do something is often not a standard is not necessary, to delve into different types of mechanisms. Such a mechanism could be the start application WPF. Recently I needed to add a custom method Main(). I thought, it will be simple – a new class and the code. Of course I checked earlier, whether this method has not been defined in the files [...]
