I have VS2010 and Expression studio 4 on my machine. I have done a fair amount of programming on Silverlight. What do I need to get started with development on Windows phone 7. I googled and found out that I need to install VS2010 express for WP7 beta. Can't I just use my existing VS2010 installation with some additional templates and an...
I have a problem with WP7 app. I'm trying to write WP7 app form WPF sample code. private void storyboard_Completed(object sender, EventArgs e) { ClockGroup clockGroup = (ClockGroup)sender; // Get the first animation in the storyboard, and use it to find the // bomb that's being animated. DoubleAn...
I had a link that had some great information regarding the new developer tools for Windows 7 phone, but I lost it! :( Where can I download the appropriate tools? Is there an emulator that simulates the phone on my laptop so I can do short tech demos for my study group? Thank you. ...
In developing a number of WP7 apps, I have a need to show clients how the app will be when deployed. The clients are a) not in the same location as I am, b) not technical at all, and c) may not even be using a PC. The purpose is to demo, get feedback and make any needed changes. I'm not finding any realistic options to just simply show ...
When I created a new Windows 7 project it mentioned Silverlight. Thanks for the information. ...
How can I add an image to my program in XAML? I want to display the 'no.png' image on my application. Also, I need both yes and no to appear in the same place. My plan was to set them both to hidden and display them only when necessary. How can I do this? ...
I have a simple textbox on my Windows Phone 7 application. I want to execute a method when the user types something in the textbox and confirms it. My question is, how would I go about this? When I click the textbox in the emulator, a keyboard pops up, I'm guessing the preferred way is somehow capturing that submit event. Any guidance? ...
I'm creating a Windows Phone 7 application that will consume an exposed webservice. For now, I want to load a dummy xml file and parse information from that. I'm used to using XDocument for things like this, but it seems I can't type in the using namespace in my code. Any other ideas? ...
I have a simple user control in Windows Phone 7 and I want to get access to the querystring collection from the user controls Constructor. I have tried many ways and cannot seem to get acess to the containing XAML's querystring collection. Essentially I am navigating to the page and the my user control is going to access the querystring...
I'm porting some code from the full .NET framework to the WP7 version and I'm running into an issue with synchronous vs async calls. string response; string requestString = GenerateReqString(); HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("endpoint"); req.Method = "POST"; req.ContentType = "text/xml"; req.ContentLength...
Lately I have installed Windows Phone 7 developement tools and noticed that VS2010 unable to resolve the phone resources like styles and fonts. But Blend does load them all, it's bit annoying that all time get exception message on designer. Can anyone suggest the solution please? ...
I have a simple ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0 model (edmx) which defines database tables with foreign key relationships. How can I send these entities down to a Windows Phone 7 client? I have created a WCF Service (using WShttpbinding),with the method... public List<LocationCity> ListCities() { var dc = ObjectFactory.GetInstance...
I have some trigger in my Windows Phone 7 Silverlight app such as <Grid x:Name="ContentGrid" Grid.Row="1" Background="Red" Height="100"> <Grid.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Loaded"> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard> <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Story...
If you were going to attempt this, what would be the main factors to consider, easy/hard parts, pitfalls? ...
There doesn't appear to be a date-picker with the current beta Windows Phone 7 SDK. What are the options available? Will there be a date control when the final SDK comes out? ...
I have a scenario where page A can navigate to page B, and page B can navigate to page C, but A can also navigate to C and I want B to be inserted in the stack so that navigating back from C always ends on B. More graphically, I want to allow these navigations: A --> B --> C (back) B (back) A (normal navigation) A --> C (back) B (back...
I'm looking at Fonts for Windows Phone and noticed that the font list includes both fonts and 2 of its 3 available styles of its styles (Bold and Italic, but not Bold Italic). For example: Arial Arial Bold Arial Italic (missing: Arial BoldItalic) Does this mean that the style Bold Italic is explicitly not available in ROM on WP7 (f...
I' building an hobby project in WPF also decided to use Metro style theme to application. Is it possible to use Windows phone 7 styles in desktop application instead of recreating? ...
I'm trying to use RestSharp (http://restsharp.org/) in a Windows Phone 7 project, but I'm having an issue it seems with the Newtonsoft Json.NET library that RestSharp uses. When I'm trying to execute my code like so: _restClient.ExecuteAsync<Model.Song>(restRequest, (response) => { if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { } ...
I'm just playing around with Windows Phone and trying to write an app for it. I can't seem to find a Trace.Assert in System.Diagnostics. This exists in .NET for the PC and lets me throw assertions in Release builds. I'm guessing that this is just something that's not a part of the silverlight toolkit. What is the correct way of enab...