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Property Finder - a Cross-Platform HTML5 Mobile App

by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of a cross-platform HTML5 application for Windows Phone and iPhone.

Azure Animal Adoption Agent and Lost & Found

by roscler

Azure based pet adoption agent that helps pet lovers find the perfect pet while saving the lives of kittens & puppies

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

Port a 2D libgdx game to MonoGame

by Giannakakis Kostas

Port your libgdx games to run in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms

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Azure Animal Adoption Agent and Lost & Found

by roscler

Azure based pet adoption agent that helps pet lovers find the perfect pet while saving the lives of kittens & puppies

Extendable TCP Client/Server Application Framework

by Michael Janulaitis

Provides an introduction to the open source client/server DotNetOpenServer SDK project for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows, Mac and Java Platforms

Math Function Tutor: Part 1

by charles922

Math Function Tutor - Part 1

Asynchronous Image Download with Abort-on-Timeout for WP7

by Dan Colasanti

AutoResetEvent can be used in place of AsyncWaitHandle and provides a thread-blocking WaitOne signaled timeout function, which can be put on a background thread in order to not block the main UI thread.

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Property Finder - a Cross-Platform HTML5 Mobile App

3 Sep 2012 by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of a cross-platform HTML5 application for Windows Phone and iPhone.

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Azure Animal Adoption Agent and Lost & Found

7 Oct 2020 by roscler

Azure based pet adoption agent that helps pet lovers find the perfect pet while saving the lives of kittens & puppies

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Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

15 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

[WARNING!] Black Line of Death in windows phone 7

1 Apr 2016 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

This is a newly discovered artifact called Black Line of Death.The artifact was first detected on a iPad of the model iPhone 2G, model of 2007, manufactured on September 31, 2007. Later it was detected on ██████ and ███████████. It was later classified as SCP-20110401 by the SCP...

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Port a 2D libgdx game to MonoGame

14 Apr 2014 by Giannakakis Kostas

Port your libgdx games to run in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms

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Property Finder – a Cross-Platform Xamarin MonoTouch Mobile App

3 Jan 2013 by Colin Eberhardt

A look at how Xamarin MonoTouch allows you to create cross-platform applications, using the native C# / Silverlight for Windows Phone and C#, via Xamarin MonoTouch, for iOS.

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Apex Part 1: Create Your First MVVM Application

21 May 2012 by Dave Kerr

Write your first MVVM application in ten minutes using the Apex SDK!

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Writing a Proper Wave File

21 Nov 2010 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Playing back data that was recorded from the Microphone, in Windows Phone 7

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UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 9

8 May 2015 by Vahe Karamian

The ninth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – NETWORK GAME PROGRAMMING

26 May 2015 by Vahe Karamian

This article will cover the basics of network programming using Network View in Unity 3D. We will be creating an Authoritative Server based networking environment showcasing the basics functions of network programming using Unity 3D and C#.

Using MVVM to create Tabbed Interfaces with Calcium for Xamarin Forms

17 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.

UNITY 3D – Leap Motion Integration

8 Jul 2015 by Vahe Karamian

This article will cover the basics of Leap Motion integration into your Unity 3D project. We will look at the basic setup and implementation of the basics to get you started. In order for you to try the code, you will need to have the Leap Motion hardware.

Augmented reality - XNA Models

23 Aug 2012 by Harald Heide Gundersen

Geocoordinate positioned Xna model viewable thru Photocamera

Make Some Cash Developing for Windows Phone

18 Jan 2012 by Inaki Ayucar

In this post, I’ll try to share my thoughts and experience developing applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace.

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Syncfusion’s "Succinctly" Series of Free ebooks

22 Jul 2013 by Simon Jackson

Syncfusion’s "Succinctly" series, one of the largest free (and still growing) set of technical books covering everything from languages, to source control systems and beyond.

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Asynchronous Image Download with Abort-on-Timeout for WP7

31 Mar 2017 by Dan Colasanti

AutoResetEvent can be used in place of AsyncWaitHandle and provides a thread-blocking WaitOne signaled timeout function, which can be put on a background thread in order to not block the main UI thread.

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Splash Screen using ProgressBar on Windows Phone

9 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

In this tutorial, we will discuss on ProgressBar & Background worker. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use these clases.

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Submitting a Windows Phone 7 Application to the Market

22 Nov 2010 by mbcrump

How to submit a Windows Phone 7 Application to the market

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Using Windows Phone As Windows 7 Accelerometer Sensor

15 Aug 2011 by Arik Poznanski

How to use Windows Phone as Windows 7 Accelerometer sensor

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Mobile Application Development Lessons Learned

13 Aug 2012 by gggustafson

This article discusses two lessons learned during the development of a mobile application.

Add Multiple Pushpins to Map in a Customized Way on Windows Phone 8

3 Oct 2013 by NitinShrivastava

In this tip, we will discuss a quick way of how to locate a point in the Map and then adding a customized pushpin to these locations through a sample XML.

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Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)

23 Jul 2014 by Saad_Mahmood

Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)

Windows 7: Adding Toolbar Buttons to taskbar Button flyout

13 May 2010 by Sarath C

Adding toolbar buttons to taskbar button flyout

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Photoshop templates for Windows Phone 7

13 Dec 2010 by Vangos Pterneas

Photoshop templates for Windows Phone 7

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Exposing asynchronous features to client code: Windows Phone 7

16 Jan 2011 by Nikos Baxevanis

How to use types implementing the IAsyncResult interface on Windows Phone 7.

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Windows Phone 7: How to Encrypt Communication with Desktop Application

24 Apr 2011 by Ondrej_Uzovic

A simple example showing how to implement encrypted communication between Windows Phone 7 and standalone .NET application.

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Open source project of guitar tablature viewer for Windows Phone

16 Nov 2011 by Ilya Builuk

Open source project of guitar tablature viewer for Windows Phone

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Metro in Motion Part #4 – Tilt Effect

18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post describes the implementation of a metro ’tilt’ effect for Windows Phone 7 which causes element to respond to user interactions by tilting in 3D.

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A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control

17 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post describes a Windows Phone 7 NavigationList control, a list control designed for navigation pages. The NavigationList renders twice as fast as a ListBox and has a slightly simpler API.

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Peer Communication on Windows Phone 7

28 Jun 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Peer Communication on Windows Phone 7

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WPWidgetLibrary HTML5 Widget for Windows Phone 7 Mango

14 Nov 2011 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Imlementation of HTML5 Widget apps in offline mode on Windows Phone 7 Mango.

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Using Windows Phone Location Services

30 Nov 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson

A quick write up on location services.

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How to create HTML5 apps on Windows Phone with PhoneGap

15 Mar 2012 by David Rousset

How to create HTML5 apps on Windows Phone with PhoneGap

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Back Button in XNA

7 May 2013 by zoyobar

I will explore and learn XNA for Windows Phone with you.

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Window 7: Setting Custom Thumbnail Clip

24 Sep 2010 by Sarath C

Window 7: Setting custom Thumbnail clip

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i2W: An iPhone Developer’s First Windows Phone 7 Application

14 Dec 2010 by Jesse Liberty

In this tutorial we will build a meaningful, and nontrivial Windows phone 7 application. This will give us the opportunity to explore layout controls, interactive controls, Visual Studio and a good bit more.

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iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Animation and Games

14 Dec 2010 by Jesse Liberty

In this second part of the tutorial, we will describe how to wire up the MainPage.xaml.cs file and bring all of the objects in the Bird Hunt game together into a running application

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Google Translator Service for Windows Phone 7

20 Dec 2010 by Vangos Pterneas

Google translator service for Windows Phone 7

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Face Detection in Windows Phone 7

1 Jan 2011 by Vangos Pterneas

Face detection in Windows Phone 7

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Loading Data when the User Scrolls to the End of a List in Windows Phone 7

24 Jan 2011 by Daniel Vaughan

How to load data when the user scrolls to the end of a list in Windows Phone 7

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Dynamically resize WebBrowser-control in Silverlight4 for Windows Phone

27 Jan 2011 by Arogarth

Dynamic WebBrowser size

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Professional Audio Recorder

7 Feb 2011 by rudigrobler

An audio recorder for Windows Phone 7

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Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX

8 Feb 2011 by rudigrobler

Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX

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Clean up your margins when using the Windows Phone 7 AD SDK

20 Mar 2011 by mbcrump

This article will show you a tip/trick to help your ad display properly.

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Shake Gestures Library – A Windows Phone Recipe

3 Apr 2011 by Arik Poznanski

This document introduces a helper library for identifying shake gestures by using the accelerometer built into Windows Phone 7 devices.

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A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example

24 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post shows how to implement tombstoning within a Windows Phone 7 application that follows the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.

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Automatic Generation of Settings Page

6 Sep 2011 by EmitsorGrp

Automatically generate a Windows Phone 7 settings page.

Include static JS / CSS / Image Files from IsolatedStorage in WebBrowser Control

8 Aug 2012 by Nicolas Humann

Include static JS / CSS / image files from IsolatedStorage in the WebBrowser control

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navigation a page from one to another

22 Apr 2012 by Prasad_Kulkarni

Please refer following threads:Navigate from one page to another[^]Here you'll get some more details:Passing data from page to page[^]And finally have a look here[^]

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Hacking for fun: porting a Silverlight Windows Phone app to WinRT in 9hours

28 Apr 2012 by Jeremy 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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(Memory and Resource) Leak Detection for WinCE

23 May 2012 by Sergeant Kolja

This is an alternative for "Memory leak detection for WinCE".

Read RSS Feeds from a Facebook Page On Windows Phone

7 Feb 2013 by Abdullatif M. Abu Al Rub

Simple example of reading RSS feeds from Facebook page using Syndication Library

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Windows Phone : Location : Map : Pushpin

12 Aug 2014 by ShubhamSaxena

Track your location, mark it on a map using pushpin

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Angular in a Cordova

23 Jul 2015 by Siddharth Chandra

How to use Angular in a Cordova Environment and its impact

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

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Removing HTML Tags in Silverlight WP7

13 Feb 2011 by Nish Nishant

Well, if you are confident of the Strip method, just replace this:description = "Position: " + channel.Element("description").Valuewith this:description = "Position: " + Strip(channel.Element("description").Value)

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Making the ApplicationBar bindable

14 Mar 2011 by rudigrobler

How to make the ApplicationBar bindable in a WP7 application.

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how to configure the IDE for Visual Studio 2010

18 Mar 2011 by Amit Kumar Tiwari

You need to download and install the Windows Mobile 7 SDK from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=71deb800-c591-4f97-a900-bea146e4fae1&displaylang=en[^]For more details refer to below...

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Silverlight Navigation Service on WP7

20 Mar 2011 by #realJSOP

I think the best way is to store the browse history in your own list, and then you can just go to the URL at the desired list location. I suppose you could call it a breadcrumb list.

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Ways to Load Applications Faster – A Windows Phone Recipe

25 Mar 2011 by Arik Poznanski

Ways to load application

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Windows Phone 7: How to Communicate with a Desktop Application

28 Mar 2011 by Ondrej_Uzovic

A simple example showing how to implement communication from a Windows Phone 7 to a standalone .NET application using HTTP

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WP7 TombstoneHelper

29 Mar 2011 by rudigrobler

What data to save when your application is tombstoned

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An iPhone theme for the Windows Phone 7 Emulator!

6 Apr 2011 by Vangos Pterneas

Creating an iPhone-styled Windows Phone emulator

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vNext

12 May 2011 by rudigrobler

The top requested features for Silverlight, WP7, and WPF

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Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow

19 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow

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How to Get Pixel Value C# WP7 and windows mobile 6

15 Jun 2011 by Dave Kreskowiak

Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 1 - Per Pixel Filters[^]

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Load images in RAM for later use

11 Jul 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

It is quite possible but totally depends on how much memory you need for images you want to preload and how likely you need them during certain period of time. Why do you need to keep ten memory streams? You can also keep the the images closer to their, totally loaded, in the image class with...

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Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View

19 Jul 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

How to create a conversation view, mimicking the SMS messaging interface within Windows Phone 7

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Articles on windows phone 7 development

4 Oct 2011 by Simon Bang Terkildsen

CP Windows Phone 7 section[^]Building a Windows Phone 7 app with MVVM pattern, using TDD and mock objects[^]Code Samples for Windows Phone[^]Introduction to Windows Mobile 7 Development[^]

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Invoking People Hub in Windows Phone 7 Emulator

26 Nov 2011 by Mohib Sheth

Invoking People Hub in Windows Phone 7 Emulator

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Windows Phone 7 – Browsing Your Photos via Bing Maps

16 Jan 2012 by Colin Eberhardt

Browsing your Photos via Bing Maps

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Using T4 to Generate Windows Phone WMAppManifest Files

8 Apr 2012 by Daniel Vaughan

How to use T4 to generate Windows Phone WMAppManifest files

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How to Call a Number in WP7 using the PhoneCallTask?

12 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to call a number programmatically in Windows Phone

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How to Save Email Address in WP7 using the SaveEmailAddressTask?

17 Apr 2012 by Kunal 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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Invoking Through the Dispatcher on Windows Phone and Metro

19 Apr 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Invoking through the Dispatcher on Windows Phone and Metro

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How to Share Status from WP7 using the ShareStatusTask?

26 Apr 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to share status from WP7 using the ShareStatus task

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Hello World, WinRT !

28 Apr 2012 by Jeremy 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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Sharing Code between Windows Store and Windows Phone App (PCL + MVVM + OData)

12 Feb 2013 by saramgsilva

This sample aims to show how to share code between Windows Store and Windows Phone app.

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Using Label Class to Display Text in XNA, WPXNA (7)

14 Jul 2013 by zoyobar

Using Label class to display text in XNA

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Using SceneLoader Class to Create Loading Screen in XNA, WPXNA (10)

30 Jun 2013 by zoyobar

Using SceneLoader class to create loading screen in XNA

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Storyboarding Apps in PowerPoint

4 Jul 2013 by Timmy Kokke

The Storyboard extension is available for users of Visual Studio Ultimate, Premium and Test Professional.

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Is it possible to get user's GPS in background and post it

25 Sep 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

It depends on the framework, libraries and language you are using. In particular, you can use .NET for Windows CE:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms920900.aspx[^].Then you can use GPSAPI this...

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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.

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Which programming language I shuld learn C#, C++, C, Java, Python, Rubby or etc.

6 Aug 2014 by ErnestoNet

You are asking the wrong question.You should be asking:- Why do I want to learn a language?- Why do I want to develop software? To make money? To learn? To understand computers? To get reputation? To impress people?- What languages are used where I live? Which one has better...

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Get Automatic Pictures from Device and Upload to Web Server

14 Aug 2015 by Emiliano Musso

How to create a Windows Phone app to take timed pictures from camera, and upload them on an Apache webserver to view them remotely

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Windowsform and uercontrol, implementing changes to them.

19 Jul 2016 by Ralf Meier

I would change the posted methods like this :Protected Overrides Sub OnVisibleChanged(e As System.EventArgs) MyBase.OnVisibleChanged(e) CheckControlCollection(Me , Me.Visible)End SubPrivate Sub CheckControlCollection(myHost As Control , state as boolean) ...

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How to fix error stimulsoft DLL in c#.net

5 Oct 2016 by David_Wimbley

Your error is pretty clear that you have a version mismatch. Quote:uses 'Stimulsoft.Report, Version=2016.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=ebe6666cba19647a' which has a higher version than referenced assembly 'Stimulsoft.Report' with identity 'Stimulsoft.Report, Version=2015.2.0.0,...

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Windows Phone Deployment Patterns - Part 1 of n

22 Feb 2010 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Windows Phone deployment patterns

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sqlite connectivity with windows phone 7

14 Oct 2010 by vivekmahajan86

Hi,I'm new to development.I'm developing an app in which I have to connect it with database. I'm using sqlite for that.Please tell me how I connect app with sqlite.thanks.

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WPF - How to change the default behaviour of ArrowKeys on Menus?

15 Jan 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

I would highly recommend you to use different approach.Even if you successfully modify your menu behavior and make if operational, it will confuse your users... well beyond your expectations. They may easily refuse working with your application because of such tiny things.Approach #1. On...

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Window Mobile 7

19 Jan 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson

I think you mean "Windows Phone 7." Windows Mobile 7 is the name of a Microsoft project that was cancelled and never given light of day just before the Windows Phone 7 project started. The initial version of Windows Phone 7 has no managed support for database access. The only way it can...

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Search Digg on Windows Phone 7

10 Feb 2011 by Arik Poznanski

Another utility class I wrote to help me search Digg results asynchronously on a Windows Phone 7 application

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Visual studio 2008 application for Windows mobile 7

22 Feb 2011 by JF2015

As much as I know, VS2008 does not support the Windows Phone 7 Developer tools. You should use VS2010 for this purpose. You can even use the free edition Visual Studio 2010 Express. Here is a link that explains more in detail what you need to get...

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Tracking High Scores on Windows Phone 7

12 Mar 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson

How to implement local high scores in Windows Phone 7

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Not able to set WP7 development env.

10 Apr 2011 by Abhinav S

Open the command prompt and run devenv /resetsettings .

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MIX11 Second Day Sessions Summary

14 Apr 2011 by Gil Fink

MIX11 Second Day Sessions Summary

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Managing Tombstone State in a Windows Phone 7 Application

2 May 2011 by Arik Poznanski

How to manage Tombstone State in a Windows Phone 7 Application

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WP7 TombstoneHelper

12 May 2011 by rudigrobler

When your application gets tombstoned, you get an opportunity to save some state about your application. What should be saved, where to save it, and when?

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Metro in Motion Part #3 – Flying Titles!

18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

In this blog post, I look at how to implement the fly-out fly-in effect seen in native Windows Phone 7 applications. This effect is seen in the native mail application; when you click on a message, the title flies out of the list then flies back in as the title of the message page.

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Metro in Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations

18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

How to implement the animated 'peel' effect seen when native Windows Phone 7 applications exit

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