I have silverlight problem I'v used two days to fight: a template with a style controls a button. In the concrete button I have a canvas with paths as content. The problem is that I want the paths fill color to bind to the Foreground from the ContentControl in the template. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to construct th...
Hi I would like to make animation start from the center and then swing like see-saw. Basiclly, it is what I posted in XAML but I cannot get it working. <Storyboard x:Name="wiggleAnimation" > <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="rotateSlider" Duration="0:0:1" To="20" Stor...
I'm wondering if it is possible to list/read emails from Silverlight app in Windows Phone 7 environment. I know that I can create new SMS/emails, but I'd like to actually parse incoming emails. ...
Hi everybody, Do you know where can I find a detailed documentation/tutorial on MVVM Light and Windows Phone 7 ? I only found short explanations et some very basic tutorials. Thanks, Regards. ...
Interested in listening in on general chat by Windows Phone 7 developers. Anyone know of non-Microsoft forums? A Microsoft one would be okay unless the developers in there feel sort of obliged not to be critical. I'm preparing to work on an infamous mobile app and whilst iPhone & Android are obviously on the list, I'm interested in whet...
Could Someone help me to find out why l.X1 is set to default value(0.0) when the binded source is having a value of 156. Following image may be self explanatory. ...
One of the requirements for a Windows Phone 7 application that I am writing is to handle the app going into standby and back when something interrupts it (e.g. a phone call). This is called "tombstoning" an application. Is there a way to simulate this behavior on the emulator? It will be fairly difficult to test unless we can either do t...
I am looking for some advanced samples of windows phone 7 that use expression blend for UI design and VS 2010 for app development that talks to services etc. and probably uses some frameworks. ...
When using the TransitioningContentControl and a Panorama, I cannot seem to get any good performance when I am navigating from one page to another. I have been implementing a basic Flip animation, where the current content gets flipped out and the new one is flipped in, but the apps FPS drops to less than 20FPS which means you never ge...
I have this method fired on a button click. MyObj is an extended Control type with two properties CenterX and CenterY with backing dp CenterXProperty and CenterYProperty. With the animation playing the CenterX and CenterY properties of MyObj are changing, but I can't see any movement of the object. private void MoveMyObjectsWithAnimat...
Hello everyone, I have a solution with 2 projects: Windows Phone App and a Windows Phone Class Library. The class library has a control called MessageBoxExtended which inherits from ContentControl. The project also has a Themes folder with a generic.xaml file. The file has the Build Action set to Page and it looks like this: <ResourceDi...
Hi: I'm developing an app for WP7 (VS2010 Express for Windows Phone RTM and WP Emulator), but now im facing a big problem related to memory usage. The app itself has like 12 views, and some of them are reused with different data. It's a newsreader, so the views are mostly listboxes (image thumbnail, stackpanels and textblocks). The fir...
Where can I find a tutorial for creating a custom InputScope? I'd like to create a custom keyboard that displays only the numbers 1-9 on the onscreen keybord (no symbols). ...
I'm trying to write a windows phone 7 app which reads from an xml using xdocument but i'm having a few problems. If I do this: Dim xml As XDocument = XDocument.Load(e.Result) System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(xml.ToString) Or this: System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(xml.Elements.Value.ToString) then the xml data is output to the ...
Hi, In a Windows Phone 7 app, the PhoneApplicationService.Current.State object is declared as an IDictionary, and is implemented as a Dictionary. I was really hoping to get notified when any state changes occur. (I realise I could build my own state collection somewhere else and do whatever I want, but I'm retrofitting this into existin...
I am working on a Windows Phone 7 app that talks to a 3rd party Soap service. I used 'Add Service Reference' to the wsdl to generate the proxy class. Some calls work, but certain outbound calls that make use of an 'sObject' class result in the error "The type System.Xml.Linq.XElement was not expected. Use the XmlInclude or SoapInclude at...
I am using the latest Phone 7 RTM tools ( downloaded it today, October 7 2010). I am trying to do a simple thing here: when the user taps once on the map control, i want to put a pushpin there. also, i want to keep the regular built-in behavior of the map control ( tap twice to zoom). (If it's not possible to keep both behaviors , the...
I created a regular Phone 7 template. Drug the Bing map control to the main grid. And for some reason the ManipulationStarted event is not fired when i click/interact with the bing map control in the emulator. Why this is happening ? (I am using latest Phone 7 Tools RTM). ...
I'm using the DatePicker control from the WP7 SL toolkit. It navigates to DatePickerPage.xaml, which has the scrollers for date picking. I want to keep all the functionality, but change the colors. I'm messing around with DatePickerPage.xaml and updating colors to fit my needs. I've been able to update the text colors on the scrollers ...
I'm creating a library application that will act as a wrapper for an exposed API. This library ideally should work on any desktop application, but truth be told I'm intending to use this on the WP7 once I'm done creating the library. Would this work? ...