windows-phone-7

Prevent scrolling of nested list

I have an application which contains a nested list box, that is a list box inside a listbox.itemtemplate in the item template of another list. I would like to prevent scrolling of the inner list box in favour of just scrolling the outer list box. At the moment either list can be scrolled which is a bit confusing for the user. |-------...

Standard transitions in Windows Phone 7

Back when Windows Phone 7 had it's first SDK released they had an item list template that had the transitions for the items. Currently in the RTM tools there doesn't appear to be any support for this, can you not access the standard built-in transitions in Windows Phone 7? ...

Setting default button style in Windows Phone 7 silverlight app.

In WPF I could apply a style to a target type without giving it a name. This would effectively style all elements of that type without explicitly setting the style on each button. <Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}"> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White" /> </Style> <Button Content="Button1"></Button> This s...

Silverlight: Why is there space between these two elements?

I'm using Silverlight 4 to develop a Windows Phone app. I have a control defined by the following XAML: <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent" Margin="0,0,0,20"> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="Auto" /> <RowDefinition Height="*" /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> ...

Windows Phone 7/Silverlight: How to do navigation?

I'm developing a Silverlight wp7 app. I'm not sure exactly how to do navigation. I have several PhoneApplicationPage classes, which contain several UserControls. It looks like I can use NavigationService to navigate from the PhoneApplicationPage classes, but not the UserControl classes. Is that preferable? Is the general pattern not to ...

Silverlight: Difficulty with WebClient

I'm having a really weird issue. I must be doing something really obvious that is wrong, but I can't see it. I'm building a wp7 app which currently runs in the emulator. I have a URL that returns JSON. I visit this URL in my browser and verify that it works. I get the data from this URL in Silverlight using WebClient. When I get the re...

OData on Windows Phone 7

I'm not sure if maybe I'm just not finding the correct information. But the OData story on windows phone 7 seems to be incomplete. I've followed the steps in this blog post: http://dotnetspeak.com/index.php/2010/03/windows-phone-7-application-with-odata/ This generated the expected client types as described. Unfortunately, when I add th...

Windows Phone 7 Emulator: Where's the tab key?

I just downloaded the software and am trying out the emulator and I am surprised that it isn't obvious (to me) how to tab to the next enterable field. The EN key means "English", not enter. The bottom rightmost key IS the ENTER key, but that performs a submit of the page and strangely, results in the whole page being zoomed. Where's th...

Windows Live Id Authentication for Windows Phone 7

Hi, I'm developing a Windows Phone 7 app but don't want to re-implement my own identity / authentication service - espcially when we know the user will be signed in with a Windows Live account. But, I understand from this thread that Microsoft will not be granting access to the logged in users details. Really? Is there a way to get t...