WindowsPhone 8.0 : Change default Emulator skin border with Skin Switcher,Beginners Tip

Introduction:

Are you got bored with the default skin of Windows Phone 8 Emulator? You can change the look of your Windows Phone 8 emulator by using the WP8 Emulator Skin Switcher to make it look like a Nokia Lumia 920, HTC 8X or Samsung Ativ S.

WindowsPhone 8.1 : Gesture Support with GestureRecognizer class(C#-XAML)

Introduction:

Touch gestures are the primary method for a user to interact with a Windows Phone, requiring a user-initiated movement with single or multiple fingers on a touch screen. Developers can implement gesture support in their application. Each framework offers unique ways to handle touch input to create compelling, interactive end user applications. In this article I will focus on GestureRecognizer class.The GestureRecognizer class resides in the Windows.UI.Input namespace and recognizes gestures such as tap, double tap, hold and swiping and others like below...

WindowsPhone 8.1 SQLite: How to Store Data in DataBase for Beginners Tutorial(C#-XAML)

Introduction:

If you want to implement sqlite database application for windowsphone 8.0,you may helped from my previous article.Now from this article we will learn about 'Sqlite support in WindowsPhone Store 8.1'.This article is compared with my previous article,so that we can easily understand the changes in WP8.0 & WP8.1 to setup Sqlite environment.

Great News! Coding4Fun Toolkit Controls are supported for Windows Phone 8.1- Part 1 (C#-Xaml)

Introduction:

Recently i found from twitter as 'Coding4Fun Toolkit is Supported for Windows Phone 8.1'.And i want to be say thanks to Hermit Dave for sharing this info on twitter. Now Coding4Fun toolkit v2.0.9 for Windows Platform dev has been released and packages are available for download from Nuget.
In WindowsPhone 8.0 we got lot of additional controls from Coding4Fun,The Coding4Fun Toolkit has multiple controls and useful items for XAML based applications.And current version v2.0.9  includes following controls.

• MetroFlow control (Windows 8.1 and WP 8.1)
• Prompts (Toast, User, Message, Input,About, PasswordInput) for WP 8.1
• BrushToBrushConverter now allows use of parameter to set output Opacity.

Note: In Version 2.0.8,support was added for windowsphone store 8.1 and now more controls were ported across in 2.0.9. So that 2.0.9 is second version for wp8.1 store :)

For more information, please visit this link.However from above available controls,This article will teach you about 'How to use MessagePrompt control in WindowsPhone store 8.1 ?'.

Goodbye 2014 & Welcome to New Year 2015

Every year this moment of time comes when we have to say ‘bye.. bye..’ to the current year and welcome to the New Year. 

Let’s say goodbye to oldies but good things will be remain with us.It’s seems to be all old days are not good and not bad as well but tomorrow could be good better than previous .So welcome it with full of gusto and have ultimate fun. Don’t bring your 2014 issues into 2015 have a new mind set to do new things for the New Year. Goodbye 2014 & Welcome to New Year 2015.