windows-phone-7

How do I implement support for ftp in WP7?

Hi I would like to retrieve documents from an ftp in my Windows phone 7 application (built with XNA in my case). As far as I understand WP7 does not support ftp due to port and protocol(?) contraints. Is there any way to get ftp support working? I guess I will be able to implement it my self once socket support is added but I dopn't wan'...

BusyIndicator control for windows phone 7 ?

Hi all, It seems that the phone control toolkit is missing the BusyIndicator control. Does someone know about one ? does something else specific exists for WP7 ? Thanks in advance for your help ...

WP7: collection of images

I have images in folder Images in my windows phone solution. How can i get collection of images in this folder? Build Action of all images is "Content". ...

"silverlight for Windows 7 Phone" option is not shown in "Add new Item" option

Hi I have downloaded and installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows 7 Phone. Problem is that i cant see "Silverlight for Windows Phone" option when I right click my Project name and select Add -> New Item option. I can only see "XNA Game Studio 4.0" under "Visual C#" category. I have tried installing Silverlight SDK sepa...

The current display adapter does not meet the emulator requirements to run XNA Framework applications.

hi * I create a Windows Phone Game (4.0) application in Visual Studio 2010 and Win7. My application build successfully but when run it, throw an error that says: "The current display adapter does not meet the emulator requirements to run XNA Framework applications." What should I do, to remove this error? ...

WP7: ListBox.ScrollIntoView smooth scrolling

How can i make smooth scrolling of content into ListBox? I tried to use ListBox.ScrollIntoView but it instantly scrolls to selected item. ...

Playing a Media File from Isolated Storage

I am reading a wav file saved as a byte stream from a web service and want to play it back when my record is displayed. Phone 7 app. My approach has been to save the byte stream to a wav file in isolated storage upon navigating to the record and subsequently set the source of my media player (MediaElement1) to that source when a button...

WP7 Custom User Control Property

I want a user control called Segmented Panel that contains 3 buttons of which I want to modify their names (Title1/2/3) from a XAML screen. MainPage XAML: <local:SegmentedControl HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="43,62,0,0" x:Name="segmentedControl1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Title1="ENTER BUTTON NAME HERE" Title2="blah.." Title3="Last ...

Play short video sequences as one long video on WP7

I'd like to write a Windows Phone 7 app, where you can connect a lot of short video sequenzes to one seamless video for playing (I don't want to edit and really create the video, just play the short ones in a special (not quite random) order). Is it possible to get a lot of videos on the phone and play them seamless? ...

REST library which support Windows Phone 7 and silverlight ?

Are there any .net REST libraries which support Windows Phone 7 and silverlight? ...

SilverLight / WP7: Can i use .net open source frameworks with silverlight & WP7?

Hi there, Does anyone know if its possible to use standard frameworks etc in silverlight & WP7? Or does it have to actually support silverlight specifically..?? Silverlight is a cut down verison of .net if i am not mistaken... so maybe all open source apis, frameworks etc may not work? any ideas really appreciated Thank you. ...

Cross thread access problem in ResponseCallback in Windows Phone 7

Basically, I'm getting some data from a WebService, and in the ResponseCallback I'm trying to fill an ObservableCollection with the results I got from the response, but I get an UnauthorizedAccessException "Invalid cross-thread access" when I try to do so. What would be the best way to fill said observable collection when I get the resu...

Application Icon transparency issue (Windows Phone 7)

I'm writing a Windows Phone 7 app and have a icon (both tile icon and app icon). The icon has my little logo in the middle surrounded by a transparent background. But when I see the icons on the phone emulator the background is black. It stays black regardless of what theme is chosen (light or dark). I would expect that the transpa...

Display Camera output in Windows Phone 7

I'm writing an augmented reality app for Windows Phone 7 as a school project. I want to get the camera output and then add a layer of data over it. Is there a way to have the camera output displayed in a panel? ...

Why does the WP7 Panoramic page jump back when updating?

I am building a GPS-related application that displays the coordinates amongst other calculations. My demo code is setup to fire the events every second. Whenever I update the main page UI (say, a textbox with the calculated Latitude), it works fine. The problem is if I try to "flick" from one side to the other side, to change the page...

How to implement the standard Windows Phone 7 ComboBox replacement UI

I'm trying to implement what seems to be the standard UI replacement for comboboxes in Windows Phone 7. This is the TextBox + Navigate to New Page with Listbox approach you can see in the settings page of the Emulator. I got the following issues while trying to implement this approach, speficically related to the TextBox: If I use a R...

Getting Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Component VerticalOffset

I want to persist the user's location in the document he or she is browsing, then bring them back to that spot when they return from tombstoning or between sessions. My first approach was to wrap the browser component in a scrollviewer, but it turns out it handles its own scrolling and the scrollviewer never changes its verticaloffset. ...

Silverlight on WP7 Popup doesn't close

Hi guys, I've a popup (this.popup = {System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.Popup}) that doesn't close when for example I change the screen by calling navigationservice.navigate, I've tried to close it in the LostFocus event but it doesn't close. What's the trick guys? Thanks Ex.: void myComponent_LostFocus(object sender, RoutedE...

Popup orientation is not correct. Its 90 degrees rotated.

Hi I have created a popup using Popup class in silverlight. I wrote a class of type UserControl and I added this usercontrol to the popup by using Child method of Popup class. Following is the XAML code of my UserControl class <UserControl x:Class="MyProject.PopupWindowContent" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/prese...

Windows Phone 7 Silverlight MVVM (and other) frameworks

Hi, What are the available mvvm frameworks for WP7 out there today? Which one(s) would you recommend and why? Are there other useful frameworks one should consider when starting WP7 silverlight development. Thanks for posting your experiences so far. Cheers, Phil ...