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Best Mobile article of April 2012

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Current Entries

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21 May 2012Dave Kerr
Write your first MVVM application in ten minutes using the Apex SDK!
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28 Apr 2012Jeremy Alles
In this post, I share the “journal” I wrote will porting the app so that you can follow this process with many detail.
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8 Apr 2012Daniel Vaughan
How to use T4 to generate Windows Phone WMAppManifest files
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12 Apr 2012Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to call a number programmatically in Windows Phone
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17 Apr 2012Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
This post will allow you to understand the API of Windows Phone 7 SDK. In this post, we will learn about SaveEmailAddressTask class and its API with a simple demo.
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19 Apr 2012Joel Ivory Johnson
Invoking through the Dispatcher on Windows Phone and Metro
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26 Apr 2012Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to share status from WP7 using the ShareStatus task
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28 Apr 2012Jeremy Alles
In this post, I’m sharing the aspects I discovered while trying to port a project from Windows Phone to WinRT.
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13 Apr 2012li9705
Can we write programs in Android with other languages? The answer is yes.
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25 Apr 2013Igor Krupitsky
Example of how to use JavaScript to drag, drop, and rotate elements for Safari in iPad.
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24 Apr 2012QArea Team
Application Bar is a pop-up panel at the bottom of the application window, which can contain from one to four buttons, which allow you to perform some action.
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4 Apr 2012Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to programmatically search for a specific contact in WP7?
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10 Apr 2012Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
This small post will help you to understand the basics about the SavePhoneNumberTask API and details about the implementation stuff with step-by-step details.
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15 Apr 2012Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How can you programmatically retrieve a phone number from an existing contact list?
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16 Apr 2012Joel Ivory Johnson
Data serializer update for Windows Metro.
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21 Apr 2012Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to retrieve an email address from a contact list with a simple example (including the internal implementation of the API).
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25 Apr 2012Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
SmsComposeTask of the WP7 SDK can be used to create SMS from code.
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16 Apr 2012Sebastian Krysmanski
This article will show some basic examples of how to call a method of a Java class from Mono for Android.
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15 Apr 2012Nathan Gloyn
Whilst Microsoft wants a unified platform, and as I said I understand why, would it not be better to wait and be happy that Win 8 and WinRT is successful with bugs ironed out before rolling it out across all form factors?
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13 Apr 2012Michael Banzon
This is a translation and partial rewrite of a piece I wrote in Danish: Opdatering Android (PDF).
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13 Apr 2012Michael Banzon
This is actually a modified + translated version of this piece I wrote in Danish: Opdatering Android (PDF).
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16 Apr 2012li9705
Writing Android GUI using Python (Introduction)
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19 Apr 2012li9705
An example of basic Android GUI elements created and controlled using python, which may be buttons, textviews, checkboxs, radiobuttons
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24 Apr 2012li9705
Writing an Android GUI using Python
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24 Jun 2012Patrick Kalkman
A complete WP7 application with SQL compact database, LINQ to SQL, MVVM Light and Dropbox integration
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26 Apr 2012Colin Eberhardt
Databinding is a fundamental part of the WPF, Silverlight, and the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 frameworks. It is a powerful concept that once mastered allows you to write concise and elegant code.
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18 Apr 2012Joel Ivory Johnson
Download Code (1.14 MB)I was thinking about how to write code that will work on both Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Metro). In theory some of the techniques that could be used are well known. But I wanted to try them out. So I decided to try some things out in a piece of throw away code.
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19 Apr 2012Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to send email in WP7 using the EmailComposeTask?
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1 Apr 2012Mark Vinod Sinnathamby
Cross Platform Game Design and development Using OpenGL
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12 Apr 2012Michael Banzon
It is not Android that is fragmented – it is iOS that is not-fragmented.
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5 Apr 2012deveck
How to consume a JSON REST WCF service using Android
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2 Apr 2012deveck
This article describes how to create a REST WCF-Webservice which can be consumed on Android devices.
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21 May 2012omid.nazifi
In this article, we try to make a shelf view show a list of books or newspapers, etc.

Current Participants

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Technical Lead
India India

Kunal Chowdhury is a former Microsoft "Windows Platform Development" MVP (Most Valuable Professional, 2010 - 2018), a Codeproject Mentor, Speaker in various Microsoft events, Author, passionate Blogger and a Senior Technical Lead by profession.

He is currently working in an MNC located in India. He has a very good skill over XAML, C#, Silverlight, Windows Phone, WPF and Windows app development. He posts his findings, articles, tutorials in his technical blog (www.kunal-chowdhury.com) and CodeProject.


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Architect Scott Logic
United Kingdom United Kingdom
I am CTO at ShinobiControls, a team of iOS developers who are carefully crafting iOS charts, grids and controls for making your applications awesome.

I am a Technical Architect for Visiblox which have developed the world's fastest WPF / Silverlight and WP7 charts.

I am also a Technical Evangelist at Scott Logic, a provider of bespoke financial software and consultancy for the retail and investment banking, stockbroking, asset management and hedge fund communities.

Visit my blog - Colin Eberhardt's Adventures in .NET.

Follow me on Twitter - @ColinEberhardt

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Engineer
Switzerland Switzerland
Daniel is a former senior engineer in Technology and Research at the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, working on next generation systems.

Previously Daniel was a nine-time Microsoft MVP and co-founder of Outcoder, a Swiss software and consulting company.

Daniel is the author of Windows Phone 8 Unleashed and Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed, both published by SAMS.

Daniel is the developer behind several acclaimed mobile apps including Surfy Browser for Android and Windows Phone. Daniel is the creator of a number of popular open-source projects, most notably Codon.

Would you like Daniel to bring value to your organisation? Please contact

Blog | Twitter


Xamarin Experts
Windows 10 Experts
Software Developer
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Follow my blog at www.dwmkerr.com and find out about my charity at www.childrenshomesnepal.org.
Student
Austria Austria
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Web Developer
United States United States
Igor is a business intelligence consultant working in Tampa, Florida. He has a BS in Finance from University of South Carolina and Masters in Information Management System from University of South Florida. He also has following professional certifications: MCSD, MCDBA, MCAD.
Software Developer (Junior)
France France
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer
United States United States
I attended Southern Polytechnic State University and earned a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and later returned to earn a Masters of Science in Software Engineering. I've largely developed solutions that are based on a mix of Microsoft technologies with open source technologies mixed in. I've got an interest in astronomy and you'll see that interest overflow into some of my code project articles from time to time.



Twitter:@j2inet

Instagram: j2inet

China China
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Technical Lead Exilesoft
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Mark is a Technical Lead at Exilesoft, whose passion lies in coding, mentoring, and fueling technical innovation. In the past, he has worked as a developer for a product engineering company, an ERP/Technical Consultant in a Fortune 500 conglomerate, and also as a senior engineer for a startup in the manufacturing and design space. His current areas of research revolve around Enterprise Architecture, Big Data, NoSQL Technology, and Machine Learning.

In his spare time, Mark experiments with (computer) game design/development, operating system internals, and compiler design. He also discusses and blogs about various topics surrounding software development, computer science, game programming, and mathematics, which can be read at markfaction.wordpress.com. Feel free to email or message him anytime and strike up a conversation.
Denmark Denmark
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Nock Consulting
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Passionate developer, designer, Certified Scrum Professional, wanna-be architect, agile evangelist, and presenter.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iran (Islamic Republic of)
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Architect http://www.simpletechture.nl
Netherlands Netherlands
Patrick Kalkman is a senior Software Architect with more than 20 years professional development experience. He works for SimpleTechture where he helps teams develop state of the art web applications.

Patrick enjoys writing his blog. It discusses agile software development. Patrick can be reached at patrick@simpletechture.nl.

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Awards:

Best Mobile article of March 2012
Best Mobile article of June 2012
QArea - software outsourcing company
United States United States
QArea is a software development outsourcing company that specializes in wide range of professional fields:

- custom software development
- software testing
- web development
- mobile applications development

Our company has a huge experience in these fields and we are always glad to share our knowledge with others. We are looking forward you to find our articles and tips useful.

Visit our website: www.qarea.com
Software Developer University of Stuttgart
Germany Germany
I have studied Software Engineering and am currently working at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

I have been programming for many years and have a background in C++, C#, Java, Python and web languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
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