I love the “checked” style in Windows 8. Clean, slick, I just like the style. So I implemented it in Windows Phone as a style. The color in the style matches the phone theme, so it’s pretty flexible . To get this style in your app, follow these steps. 1) Download the resource file that…
This is a simple, straight-forward walk-through for doing StringFormat binding in Blend. It is meant to go along with my much more comprehensive post on StringFormat binding for Windows Phone. First, in the Object and Timeline select the TextBlock (or CheckBox or Button or whatever) you want to bind to: Then in the Properties tab…
Full code tutorial on taking, formatting & uploading images to Facebook in Windows Phone 7.x
This post assumes you’ve gone through the process of setting up the permissions for a Facebook app and getting your user to log into Facebook through your app. In short, it assumes you’ve walked through this tutorial. For this tutorial, I’ve re-jiggered the code into a more formal MVVM structure. I’m using MVVM Light because…
UPDATE: This tutorial will no longer work. I’ve updated it (as of late July 2012) at my new blog 25 New Things as my first “new thing” . So, you want to use Facebook to sign into something or in some way integrate Facebook with your Windows Phone 7 app. You are in luck because it…
This is really fast but it took me a while to figure out. I was getting the following on my recent project when I tried to save something using IsolatedStorageSettings: “Operation not permitted on IsolatedStorageFileStream.” And I couldn’t find anything about it other than a very generic “Looks like a threading problem” answers. Long story…
My initial concern here was to deal with tombstoning when it comes to HTTP requests, because that issue has kicked my butt on more than one account. But the second thing you’ll find here is a simple pattern for HTTP requests and responses in Windows Phone 7. Most of the .NET code I look at…
I just spent a couple days on this and, in the end, I didn’t really figure it out. Someone else at my work (the brilliant Rylan Barnes) showed me the workaround for it. So… you want to add a cookie to your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight HttpWebRequest. Guess what? It sucks to be you! Or,…
I’m tired of trying to find things about Windows Phone 7 development, so I’m just going to post links that I find helpful so I can find them later. Here’s Nick Harris with a handy set of static methods for getting the following unique IDs: Device Manufacturer ID DeviceExtendedProperties.TryGetValue(“DeviceManufacturer”, out someObject); example: “HTC” Device ID…
OK… it’s been almost 2 months since I tried to start this series and now I’m going to finish it. A brief warning: this is done with pre-Mango bits so it won’t have all the latest, greatest most exciting things like the back-tile functionality or deep linking. (Here’s a good blog post on all that.)…