In a recent post I have covered several approaches to store data in a Windows Phone application. Another important problem is presenting data in an easy and controllable way that would not interfere with other layers of your app.

WinMobile

Mobile

Windows

Metro-design

Introduction to Windows Phone Programming: Part 2

7 Sep 2010 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Continuation of a blog post on Windows Phone 7 programming. This part covers playing sounds using XNA

WinMobile

Windows

Dev

Quick Run Through of the WP7 Developer Tools January 2011

6 Feb 2011 by mbcrump

Quick run through of the WP7 Developer Tools January 2011

Windows Phone 8 App Development - Part 2: Developing an App

28 Jan 2014 by Manoj.Kumar12

This article is Part 2 of the series of the article on Windows Phone 8 app developments - Quick Start-up guide with best practices.

Windows-Phone-7

WinMobile

Windows Phone TDD Part 2: Working with Caliburn.Micro

30 Jan 2014 by Bogdan Bujdea

Working with Caliburn.Micro

WinMobile

Windows

TDD

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming Revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

19 Jan 2015 by matthewproctor

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

LINUX: Creating Macros in VIM Editor

18 Aug 2010 by Chief Endian

Creating Macros in VIM Editor

Mobile

Linux

WinMobile

Windows Mobile: SetSystemTime and DST, Einstein’s Relativity Theory?

8 Oct 2010 by hjgode

SetSystemTime and DST, better disable DST before using SetSystemTime

WinMobile

KeyToggleStart: Yet Another Usage for Keyboard Hook

8 Sep 2011 by hjgode

How to start an application by just hitting some keys in sequence? The answer: Just use a keyboard hook.

C++

WinMobile

Dev

Windows Mobile: Kiosk Mode Series: Part 1

20 May 2012 by hjgode

How can you achieve a kiosk mode application, where the user is only allowed to do what you define.

.NETCF

WinMobile

Windows Mobile: Kiosk Mode Series - Part 2

11 Jun 2012 by hjgode

Windows Mobile: Kiosk Mode Series - Part 2

WinMobile

Parse the Salt Please

21 Jul 2013 by Simon Jackson

After playing a lot with Parse over the last few weeks, I thought I’d share some of my findings.

Windows Phone TDD Part 3: Writing the First Test

31 Jan 2014 by Bogdan Bujdea

I will show you how to create the project for the unit tests, and I will write a small test to see if it all works.

How to Fail Your Brand New Windows Phone Application

25 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok

How to fail your brand new Windows Phone application

Windows Phone 7 – Application Lifecycle – Ocean for the Phone

8 Jan 2015 by User 271009

Windows Phone 7 – Application Lifecycle – Ocean for the Phone

Why I’m a Happy Windows Phone Developer

26 Aug 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea

Why I am a happy Windows Phone developer

How to Build a Simple Toast Notification in #UWP Apps? (Part 1)

21 Jan 2016 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to build a simple Toast Notification in #UWP apps? (Part 1)

Dynamically Formatting Phone Field with JavaScript

30 Nov 2016 by Alvin Bunk

How to dynamically format Phone field with JavaScript

Microsoft's First Accelerometer API (for ZuneHD)

25 Sep 2009 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Microsoft's First Accelerometer API (for ZuneHD)

WinMobile

WCF Guidance for Windows Mobile on CodePlex

8 Dec 2009 by Joel Ivory Johnson

WCF guidance for Windows Mobile

WinMobile

.NET

Windows

Mobile Development: A native remote desktop client (rdesktop port Win32)

21 Nov 2010 by hjgode

A native rdesktop prt for Wndows CE and Windows Mobile to replace Remote Desktop Mobile.

.NET

WinMobile

Dev

SingleInstance(Of T) Class for Windows Phone 7

14 May 2011 by Nikos Baxevanis

This post aims to provide a way to implement lazy initialization in a multi threaded environment using the SingleInstance(Of T) Class.

Mobile Development – A Simple Unicode Character Map

6 Apr 2011 by hjgode

A charmap tool like we have on Windows Desktop PCs

Windows 8 Developer Preview – A Quick View

16 Sep 2011 by M Sheik Uduman Ali

Windows 8 Developer Preview – A Quick View

WinMobile

An Introduction to Three VC++ Macros: How They Came To Be

7 Dec 2011 by WebBiscuit

An introduction to three VC++ Macros: How they came to be

C++

Mobile

WinMobile

Windows Mobile – The no-go World of Function Keys

21 Dec 2011 by hjgode

Summary of the role of function keys in Windows Mobile

WinMobile

Dev

Windows Mobile – tasker2 runs and stops applications periodically

24 Dec 2011 by hjgode

Tasker2 is a tool to launch or kill applications periodically using windows mobile scheduler. It was born to control the running of agent software on windows mobile at specified times.

WinMobile

How To: Initialize a Game on Windows Phone with XPG

31 Jan 2012 by XPG Live

Initialize a game on Windows Phone with XPG

Mobile Development: AutoHide Windows Mobile Device Center 2

29 Mar 2012 by hjgode

Mobile Development: AutoHide Windows Mobile Device Center 2

Using NUnit and Entity Framework DbContext to Programmatically Create SQL Server CE Databases and Specify the Database Directory

3 Apr 2012 by PeteBarber

How to use NUnit and Entity Framework DbContext to programmatically create SQL Server CE databases and specify the database directory.

WinMobile

Getting Rid of Obsolete Microsoft Windows Mobile Remote Adapters

21 Apr 2012 by hjgode

How to get rid of obsolete Microsoft Windows Mobile Remote Adapters

WinMobile

Windows Mobile: CF how to catch F1 and F2 in WEH

24 Sep 2012 by hjgode

How to catch F1 and F2 in WEH.

WinMobile

Dev

Windows Mobile: disable touch input

3 Apr 2013 by hjgode

Hello sometimes you might want to 'lock' the screen, or to put it another way: disable touch input.

Mobile

WinMobile

touch

Windows Mobile: Redirect Function Keys into Internet Explorer Mobile Browser

1 Oct 2012 by hjgode

This small tool enables you to use Function keys within Internet Explorer Mobile (IEM) web sites.

C++

WinMobile

Dev

Usefel Tips For Windows Phone XNA Game Development

14 Apr 2013 by zoyobar

Usefel tips for Windows Phone XNA game development.

Mobile

Windows-Phone-7

WinMobile

Windows Phone 8, Family Safety, and Your Kids

22 Aug 2014 by BC3Tech

Windows Phone 8, Family Safety, and your kids

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming Revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

6 Aug 2015 by matthewproctor

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

Why It’s Sad To Be A Windows Phone Developer

25 Aug 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea

Why it is sad to be a Windows Phone developer

So you want to be a Unity3D game developer?

19 Nov 2013 by Simon Jackson

I’ve compiled an extensive list of resources at your disposable on your Unity3D journey, split up in to sections to allow you to target what you need.

MVVM for Windows Phone Developers–Use it Guys! (Part 4)

29 Dec 2013 by IInjac

MVVM for Windows Phone developers

WinMobile

Windows

MVVM

Introduction to Windows Phone Programming: Part 1

7 Sep 2010 by Joel Ivory Johnson

This is the first part of a multi-part blog post on developing for Windows Phone 7. In this post, I introduce the new operating system and start with XNA programming.

Creating Windows Phone and Window 8.1 applications using Microsoft App Studio

29 Jun 2014 by saramgsilva

This article aims to present the Microsoft App Studio for creating applications for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1. A few months ago Microsoft released Windows Phone App Studio Beta, a service that allows any person without programming skills … Continue reading →

BarcodeLib – ported to Compact Framework

28 Apr 2010 by hjgode

CodeProject: Barcode Image Generation Library ported to Compact Framework

.NET

WinMobile

Building PlanetFall, a LunarLander-inspired game for Windows Phone 8

1 Feb 2015 by matthewproctor

Lunar Lander was an arcade game developed by Atari, Inc.

Calling Web Service from Windows Phone 8 App

22 Oct 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

How to call web service from Windows Phone 8 app

Windows Phone TDD Part 1: The Project

29 Jan 2014 by Bogdan Bujdea

Windows Phone TDD Part 1: The Project

WinMobile

Windows

How to format texts of TextBlock using xaml in Windows Phone

27 Feb 2014 by RaviRanjanKr

This blog help you to learn how to format texts of TextBlock control in Windows Phone.

How to Solve Issues of Internet Not Working with Windows Phone 8 Emulator

4 Mar 2014 by RaviRanjanKr

This blog will help you to solve the issues while connecting Internet with Windows Phone 8 emulator during deployment process.

Comparison of Android vs iPhone vs Nokia vs BlackBerry vs Windows Mobile 7

22 Apr 2010 by Adrian Vintu

I have previously published an Android vs IPhone comparison and many people requested that I do a comparison of Android vs iPhone vs Nokia vs BlackBerry vs Windows Mobile 7.

Windows Mobile: Kiosk Mode – Clear Today and Programs

22 Oct 2012 by hjgode

Windows Mobile: Kiosk Mode – Clear Today and Programs

WinMobile

Building a Windows Phone App

20 Jan 2015 by matthewproctor

How to build a Windows Phone app

Localizing Your App Name and Tile on Windows Phone 8

14 Jul 2014 by BC3Tech

How to localize your app name and tile on Windows Phone 8

How to Build a Simple Toast Notification in #UWP Apps? (Part 2, integrating buttons)

24 Feb 2016 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to build a simple Toast Notification in #UWP apps? (Part 2)

Programming Windows Phone 7 – Hello World

9 Oct 2010 by Sarath C

A simple Windows Phone 7 application

Using Flickr Data Source in Windows Phone App Studio

21 Jan 2014 by Arpit Jain

Using Flickr data source in Windows Phone app studio

WinMobile

Windows

Getting Started With Windows Phone Development

21 Apr 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

I started developing application for the Windows Phone platform a few months ago. There are a lot of things i learned along the way and i want to share all that with you through a series of blog posts. In the current post, we will focus on the basic and will develop a very simple […]

Xamarin Studio (on Mac) Vs Visual Studio (Windows) for Xamarin Forms

8 Apr 2016 by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

Now than Xamarin Community is free for everyone, we don’t require a Xamarin professional license to build Xamarin applications using Visual Studio However some of [...]

Using Isolated Storage in Windows Phone App

4 May 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

Using Isolated Storage in Windows Phone App

Working With Local Storage in Windows Phone App

17 Apr 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

Working With Local Storage in Windows Phone App

Time to change from a Smart Phone to a Smart PC

18 May 2016 by Chris Boss

While many companies have been trying to jump onto the Smart Phone bandwagon over the years, Windows devices seem to have had a troubled path there.

Windows Phone 8: Print Demo for Bluetooth Label/Receipt Printers

17 Sep 2014 by hjgode

Description of my btPrint demo app to print demo files to portable bluetooth label/receipt printers

Using Local Database in Windows Phone Apps

12 May 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

How to create a Local Database for storing data of our Windows Phone app

Mobile Development: A Binary Clock for the taskbar

15 Oct 2010 by hjgode

Mobile development - a binary clock for the taskbar

WinMobile

.NET

Windows

Windows Mobile: CameraCaptureDialog Alternative

19 Oct 2012 by hjgode

This is not really an alternative but a different approach if you need the user to take multiple pictures in one session and then return to your application.

WinMobile

Programmatically Changing UI Language in Windows Phone

14 Sep 2014 by BC3Tech

Let’s have a look at some tweaks to the default phone project created for Windows Phone 8.0 (and 8.1 Silverlight)

Automated Login for Remote Desktop Mobile

17 Jun 2010 by hjgode

Automate windows and dialogs and mouse clicks on Windows Mobile

WinMobile

Windows Mobile and Color Depth

8 Feb 2010 by Joel Ivory Johnson

This question has come up three times in the various forums in which I participate, so I thought it would be appropriate for me to write a post about it.

WinMobile

Remote Desktop Mobile on VGA Devices: QVGA Applications Do Not Scale Well

6 Sep 2011 by hjgode