How to create an Windows Phone 7-like home screen launcher
How would you create a Windows 7-like home screen replacement, on Android? ...
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Which programming language(s) does Windows Phone 7 (WP7) support?
As I recall, WP7 supports C# but does not support any of the .Net dynamic languages (Ruby or Python). Are any other programming languages besides C# supported? Could an app be developed using Boo? ...
A super-simple MVVM-Light WP7 sample?
I am looking for a sample that demonstrates in the lightest way possible the following: A Model that invokes a SOAP based web service; regularly polling to get the latest value (assume the SOAP service returns a boolean). The model should also support invoking a SOAP method that changes the boolean on the server. A ViewModel that enab...
ORM mapper for windows 7 phone
I thinking of using SQLite with win7 phone for development of my app. I looking for an ORM mapper which will work with Windows 7 phone and SQLite. ...
Windows Phone 7 close application
Is there any possibility to programatically close Silverlight application on Windows Phone 7? ...
How to retrieve missed calls on Windows Phone 7
Is there any possibility of retrieving missed phone call numbers from WP7? As far as I know, third party apps will be tombstonded on incoming calls. So there is no way of implementing a caller id request to a web service based phone book provider... Question is: will I manage to look up the number, when I missed the call? ...
VS2010 for Windows Phone 7 & Blend crash with Mvvm-Light
This is not really a question, but an assertion. Posting this so that others can avoid this problem. If you use Mvvm-Light (and maybe other Mvvm frameworks) and have code in your ViewModel that runs on a thread other than the UI thread, VS2010 and Exression Blend will likely crash when trying to view/edit your XAML in design mode. For ...
UIElement in layered fashion
Technology : Silverlight Platform : Windows Phone 7 foreach(Rectangle rec in listrect) { Layoutroot.Children.Add(rec); } Done some mouse move capture events and made these rectangles draggable. Each child element is added to the layout in some layered fashion I guess,where the first rectangle goes to the bottom layer next on top of th...
WP7 Prevent ListBox scrolling
I have a page with two ListBox controls. The page contains a list of items based on the item's category. There is a header for a category, followed by a ListBox containing all items for that category, then another header followed a list of items for that category, etc. The issue I'm having is that each ListBox scrolls independently. I...
Is there an easier fast way to detect whether the (Windows Phone 7) device has an internet connection
Is there an easier fast way to detect whether the (Windows Phone 7) device has an internet connection. I'm currently sending a web request, waiting the timeout period and handling the exception. Hoping for a quick easy way to query the device to see whether it has a connection before sending any requests... Thanks in advance, ...
Calculate whether one coordinate is within range of another
I'm writing a Windows Phone 7 app that needs to be location aware. Specifically I want some (c#) code to run when the phone comes within a (fixed) range of a particular location, say 0.5 miles. I have all the lat / long data for the physical locations in memory. I will be using the Geo Coordinate Watcher class to get the devices curre...
How to register to receive all property changes in Mvvm-Light
I want a class (called PremiseServer) in my Mvvm-Light solution (WP7) to subscribe to all property changes for classes that are derived from a base type (SysObject is the base class and it derives from ViewModel). I have a set of classes derived from SysObject. These classes have various properties on them of differing types (Strings, ...
Problem with Windows Phone ComboBox Style
I'm using a ComboBox control in my app. I understand that there is no supported Metro theme for it - but a ComboBox fits my needs perfectly, so here we are... So my predicament is that I need to create a metro theme from scratch or I need to spend like 2 days to recreate the ComboBox control. I tried the first option (creating a metro...
Running a Windows Phone 7 app on the desktop
I have an application for Windows Phone 7 that I need to bundle up and send to several doctors for a content review. Ideas on how this might be done? I can't expect the docs to install the full SDK, but if I could bundle the emulator with it that might work, or if there's an easy way to convert the app to a Windows EXE that would as well...
Wait for the response to be fully received
I have a Windows Phone 7 application (Silverlight-based) that sends a web request and receives a web response. It works fine - I am using BeginGetReponse and an AsyncCallback to call EndGetResponse. However, I need to wait for the response to be fully received, so that I can fill a collection with the data from the response. What woul...
Adding files to WP7 isolated storage from Visual Studio?
I'm working on an Windows Phone 7 app where I'm going to show ATM's nere your location with bing maps. I have an xml-file with addresses and gps coordinates. But how do I add this file to my program from visual studio? If I set BuildAction to Content and Copy to output directory to Copy always. The file still isn't in IsolatedStorage. D...
Silverlight/WP7: I want to place an Button after the Listbox element which are data bound
I am fairly new to silverlight. I am developing on the windows phone platform. I want to place a button at the end of the listbox entries which will be bound to data from the webservice (I am using a listbox template) List item 1 List item 2 List item 3 List item 4 List item 5 List item 6 List item 7 List item 8 ..Button.. I tried n...
Open Windows Phone App In Emulator via Command Line?
Is there a way to load a Windows Phone Application into the Windows Phone emulator via the command line? I would like to be able to run Jeff Wilcox's test runner during an automated build. Something along the lines of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\1.0\XDE.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.0\Emulation\I...
WP7: Save a contact with predefined details
I am doing a Windows Phone 7 project, and is retrieving personal details for a person based on his phone number via a webservice. I'd like to allow the user to save this data as a contact; Ideally I would like to show the Edit Contact dialog with all the fields pre-filled based on the data I retrieve. I know I can do this: var...
What flavour of WCF to use with Windows Phone 7
I'm pretty much a novice as far as WCF goes and I'm trying to figure out which type of WCF project to create for use by my windows phone 7 application. There seems to be : WCF Service Silverlight-enabled WCF Service WCF Data Service As far as I can tell - #1 is an older variant, requires more configuration and an interface. #2 has s...