Hi, I am playing around with the WP7 SDK and the Prism for WP7 beta and have come across a problem I can't figure out (or even a workaround for). First of all, I'm new into WPF/Silverlight/WP7 and Prism, so I could be overlooking something very obvious. So I have a Shell page that has my region that is used to hold my content page...
I'm trying to create a Windows Phone 7 application, using either Silverlight or XNA, but I can't figure out how to do such thing, that would be part of the idea of the app. If it is not possible, is there any kind of format that does something similar to that? Thanks in advance! ...
Is there any way of getting main page object from any of its child controls? As a possible solution I see here bubbling through parents and stopping as soon as a parent is of PhoneApplicationPage type. It is fine for me, but what if I need to do that from other pages? I.e. How to get main page of an application from everywhere within the...
I have a view model that has a "IsSearchVisible" property. When it gets set to true I want it to start an animation in the view that slides down the search box. Anyway to achieve this in Silverlight/WP7? ...
I am using the RTM WP7 Bing Maps control. I have a number of pushpins at lat/long locations. I want to move and zoom the map to show all the pushpins. With the Silverlight Bing Maps control I could create a bounding box from a number ot lat/longs and tell the map to zoom using this. All I can see on the WP7 Bing Maps control is a Cent...
In Visual Studio 2008, there was the device manager for setting up additional templates and options for the emulator. None of these options are available with Visual Studio 2010 which I understand as the features were removed. When the Phone Tools are installed, the device target box comes back but there are no options at all. Basica...
I have a WP7 app that has a search page. I would prefer to hook the hardware search button rather than having to add search icons to the menu bar. Has anyone figured out how to do this? ...
Hi, does anyone know how to load a UTF8-encoded string using WebBrowser.NavigateToString() method? For now I end up with a bunch of mis-displayed characters. Here's the simple string that won't display correctly: webBrowser.NavigateToString("ąęłóńżźćś"); The code file is saved with UTF-8 encoding (with signature). Thanks. ...
Is there a way to set focus to a PanoramaItem in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7? I've tried: piResults.Focus(); Where piResults is the name of a PanoramaItem. I've also tried to give focus to one of the controls in the PanoramaItem, but that didn't work either. If this isn't clear, I'm trying to do the following: If you press a but...
I'm seeing this text effect in tons of commercials, and web sites lately. And I've found ways to do it in Flash, and JavaScript, but nothing that would directly help me achieve it in Silverlight. Here's an example of the effect: http://activeden.net/item/pendulum-swing-3d-component-as3/85056 Basically the idea is the text is on a bill...
How do I show a new form in a Windows Phone 7 App? I've initialized my class like this: Jeans jeansform = new Jeans("Elwood Curtis"); However, there's no jeansform.Show() method. ...
Which way is the best way: RIA via Silverlight, RIA via Flash\Flex, Ruby\Python, Mobile App Dev(wp7\android), GameDev? Thx ...
Hi everyone. I'm building an application that displays a bunch of images (such as a slide-show), but I wan't the user to be able to chose this files, or folders. I have no idea how to make it (I've read something about IsolatedFileStorage, but didn't understand if this means I can't look into user files). Edit: I found out a way to sele...
I have a user control containing a listbox. I want to bind to the listboxes selected item property so I created a dependency property. public HousePrice SelectedItem { get { return (HousePrice)GetValue(SelectedItemProperty); } set { SetValue(SelectedItemP...
My windows phone 7 app has very nice background images but they are being destroyed by color banding on a 16bit color device. Is there a way I can correct this? I have tried saving in several different modes in photoshop to no avail. ...
I've been trying to port some Windows Phone 7 code between Silverlight to XNA which relies on IsolatedStorageSettings but I can't get Visual Studio to resolve it. When I have a look at what Intellisense is resolving under System.IO.IsolatedStorage & it lists IsolatedStorageFile, IsolatedStorageException & IsolatedStorageStream. The docu...
I've heard that app development on the new windows phone 7 is C# only. Is that true? I haven't been able to verify that on my own. Can you please provide a link to this? If true, is there any rumors about allowing VB.Net to create apps as well? ...
Hi, Me and My friend talk about how simulate a button that where pressed. The challenged were to find the event and fire it. (For WP7) We were not a loud to use source code for finding out the event. The big question, how would you do ? Non of us have found the answer yeat... ...
For novice users, they may not know to Tap and hold an a button or UI element. Is there any good way of hinting that there is a "Tap and Hold" action under a visual item? ...
Is it possible to install "Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW" on a machine without installing Visual Studio and Expression Blend? The reason I am asking is that I want to install it on a build server. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=04704acf-a63a-4f97-952c-8b51b34b00ce&displaylang=en ...