Daily Links 29/10/2010

Windows Phone 7 How-To Index

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #25: Talking To External APIs

Silverlight - Custom ListBox Item Template

5 least known things - Windows Phone 7 development

The Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #27: Windows Phone Marketplace

Microsoft WCF Data Services Oct 2010 CTP 1 for .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4

WCF Data Services Learning Page

WP7 Development Tips Part 1
Some REALLY good tips in there! (that I haven't seen anywhere else)

Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update

WP7: Context Menu From Listbox

Silverlight 4 - Publishing Application to Remote Server

WCF RIA Services - Error When Moving Service To Server

.NET 4.0 : Collectible assemblies

Making Asynchronous Programming Easy (C# 5)

Daily Links 24/10/2010

Google Maps for Windows Phone 7 using the Bing Maps Control

Better Silverlight 4.0 Installation and Upgrade Experience

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #21: Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone

How to track an object which is Out of Scope while Debugging ?

Simulating and Mocking Location Data in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator

Offline Data Cache in Windows Phone 7 (using Isolated Storage)

Simple textbox validation wp7

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #23: Providing Trial Versions of Your App

Enabling your WP7 application to be installed in Trial Mode

Why Deactivated is not the same as Tombstoned

How to capture audio from your microphone in WP7

Silverlight Tip of the Day #36 : Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks

Windows Phone: Preventing the panorama control from scrolling

I have a panorama control that contains an InkPresenter control. Needless to say while drawing in the InkPresenter, the panorama manipulation events would still fire, scrolling the panorama.

I tried to google on how to temporarily lock the scrolling, and couldn’t find anything, hence this post.

The solution turned out to be quite simple: Subscribe to the ManipulationStarted event of the panorama control. You can then call the Complete() method on the event args to stop the manipulation.

So in my specific example, when the MouseLeftButtonDown event occured on the InkPresenter, I’d just set a local boolean “_panoScrollLocked” to true. This can then be queried on the Manipulation event of the panorama to prevent scrolling. Reset the variable again on the MouseLeftButtonUp event of the InkPresenter to restore the scrolling behaviour.

The same technique can be used for the Pivot control

Happy Coding :)

Windows Phone: Using Google Map images on the Bing Maps Control

I’m busy writing a Windows Phone application that involves a fair amount of map usage. When I first had a look on-line at the 2 main map providers (Bing and Google), I was quite disappointed to see that the quality of the Bing Maps were far inferior to those of the google offering – at least where I'm from here in South Africa. Needless to say this was a bit of a concern when I started developing.

Thankfully, after reading this post, I can now have the best of both worlds :). Yip – it outlines how to use Google Map images inside the Bing Maps control for silverlight.

As always, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a screen grab from the windows phone emulator:

Above you see a view from my local golf course. On the left is the Bing image, and on the right the images provided from Google. We had upgrades done to the clubhouse more than 2 years ago, and the Bing maps are still showing the old building. You can also see that the Google images are far more detailed.

…. props to Microsoft for developing a map control that is so extensible, I can share it between my silverlight and windows phone projects, as well as plug in images from another provider!

Happy Coding :)

Daily Links 19/10/2010

Programmatically supporting Windows Phone themes with differing colors for text

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #17: The Pivot Control

Ultimate Guide to speed up Visual Studio

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #18: WebBrowser Control

Authorization and Authentication using WCF Security - Silverlight

Enabling your WP7 application to be installed in Trial Mode

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #19: Push Notifications

Silverlight Performance Tips

Selecting an obfuscator for Silverlight

Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is Loopy

Extended strongly typed resouce generator
Handy for binding against resource files for application globalization

Daily Links 17/10/2010

Using a single Version file in all projects for a solution

WP7 Code: Geofencing with the GeoLocation API and Rx

Windows Phone: Taking screenshots for marketplace submissions

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #16: The Panorama Control

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #15: Isolated Storage

Marketplace and the App Hub

Why the Windows Phone 7 Emulator can sometimes take forever to access the network - and how to fix it!

Daily Links 14/10/2010

Creating High Performing Applications for Windows Phone
MSDN Whitepaper

Windows Phone 7 Turnstile Control for Silverlight

Announcing Two Weeks of Architecting WP7 Apps

Anatomy of a WP7 Application Submission

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #13: Location Services

Reactive Extensions #3: Windows Phone 7

31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #14: Tombstoning (Multi-tasking)

Silverlight Media Framework Now With Windows Phone 7 Goodness

Samsung Omnia WP7 Review
.. some interesting limitations :|

WP7 device list

Windows Phone 7 RTM charting using the Silverlight Control Toolkit

Silverlight 4.0 - Calling Secured WCF 4.0 Service hosted with SSL and Self-Signed Certificate

Calculating The Size Of SOAP Messages

Daily Links 11/10/2010

Investigating Transactions Using Dynamic Management Objects
" When you hit performance problems in a database under load, and there is excessive locking and blocking, how can you determine exactly where the problems lie, in order to fix them?"

Silverlight Testing Automation Tool

31 Days of Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 Design Templates

Windows Phone 7 - Top 10 Tips for a Successful Marketplace Certification

Profile your Windows Phone 7 Application for Free

Are you ready for the WP7 Marketplace? Here's an in-depth analysis of the Application Certification Requirements

Deploying your Windows Phone 7 Application to the actual hardware.

New Features and Improved Performance in Silverlight 4

Mikogo
"Mikogo is an easy-to-use [Free] cross-platform desktop sharing tool, ideal for web conferencing, online meetings or remote support."
Took it for a test-drive, and it's significantly better than Skype's screen sharing. Much better quality, esp. when presented with bandwidth constraints.
No VOIP, so use another tool (like Skype) in conjunction.

Daily Links 02/10/2010

Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is Loopy

WP7: Maintain Selected Pivot Item

Code to animate and fade Windows Phone orientation changes now supports a new mode: hybrid!

Silverlight On Mobile : InputScope in Windows Phone 7

WP7 Code: Using the GeoLocation API

Windows Phone Memory constraints

Pivot Applications for Windows Phone 7

SQLite for Windows Phone 7 created

Fully supported Persistent Database solution now being offered for Windows Phone 7

Ninja Database Lite for Windows Phone: Two Special Offers for Code Project Members
Free lite version available until 30 Oct!

Augmented Reality Accelerometer Kit for WP7
"test their accelerometer code on the emulator by simply holding a printed cutout in front of a webcam"

Workaround for showing a tooltip for disabled control in silverlight

Custom Configuration Sections FTW

Unit Testing Custom Config Section