WindowsPhone 8.1 Optical Character Recognition(OCR) Library :Read Text from Images (C#-XAML)

1.Introduction:

Wow! the most wanted library is now supported for windowsphone 8.1.lot of developers waiting for this library,And finally it was released by Microsoft in last "Preview Program".Optical Character Recognition(OCR) library is helpful to read text from images and returns the text and layout information . 
OCR library features:

• Ability to recognize patterns (Ex: email,phone,URI's) from Image text
• Launching Above patterns(Ex:Making Phone Call,Sending Mail,Visit Website)

OCR Limitations:

• Image dimension should be  >= 40*40 pixels and <= 2600*2600 pixels
• Image text lines must have written in same orientations and same directions.Fortunately OCR can able to correct rotation up to ±40 degrees.

WindowsPhone Dev centre:Wow! now most of app "Publishers" can respond to app customers reviews in windowphone store:

Introduction:

How it is sweet to listen?and i am very happy to share this info to my blog visitors.Microsoft again one step forward is now most of developers/publishers can respond to reviews of our WindowsPhone apps directly from Dev Center. And this feature appeared in the Google Play Store last year and has been highly popular with developers, so it's good to see it coming to Microsoft's app stores as well. So far the main concern is to help you maintain closer contact with users to inform them of new features, bugs you’ve addressed, as well as get feedback and ideas to improve your app.

More Windows Phone developers are now able to respond to comments and reviews from customers in the Windows Phone Store. Since April, certain developers had the ability to answer inquiries related to a specific app. The rollout of this feature has been taking place slowly, with more developers supported each month, and is now proceeding at a quicker pace.

Windows Phone 8 Battery API:Retreiving the Remaining time of device battery c#

Introduction:

The Battery class is available from "Windows.Phone.Devices.Power" namespace which includes the property "RemainingDischargeTime" which is a read only property that gets the time left for the windows phone device battery to be fully discharged.Get the access to the Battery instance with the Battery.GetDefault() and then use the property RemainingDischargeTime to retreive the time left.The Battery API makes a nice addition to the WP8 SDK.I can see in the near future that some applications will display the battery metrics on a Live Tile or in the application that hides the System Tray.

WindowsPhone 8.1 Update (GDR 1) SDK:New Updates & More Emulators for Developers :)

Introduction:

Finally the day is arrived and good news for developers is "now windowsphone 8.1 update(GDR1) sdk is available for development".Microsoft published new sdk on this August(i.e "8/1/2014") in "Preview for Developers" program.So this new sdk will be makes developer can able to use few new latest features with respect to existing wp8.1 sdk.I want to be post those latest new features in next article of my blog.However in this post i am going to explained about  "How to install new sdk?" and "How to get new sdk GDR1 emulators?"

WindowsPhone 8 SQLite: How to Store Data in DataBase for Beginners Tutorial(C#-XAML)

Introduction:

In our daily development,some times we may need to store data and access it for later use.So as developer choice we need to decide "which way is best to store data?" and this decision making would be change based on amount of data to be store.However windowsphone is very good at this case . Because windowsphone is provided following ways to store  our application data.

WP8.0 vs WP8.1 :All about new package.appxmanifest file at beginners level

Introduction:

I believe you may already known about new windowsphone 8.1 sdk that is now old windowsphone 8.0 "WMAppManifest.xml" file is renamed to "Package.appxmanifest" which is very similar to the Windows Store apps . Package.appxmanifest is xml file that included all info of our application such as targeted app OS version,App display name,App icons,capability permissions to run app,Start page to be App launch..etc .And every app package must have one package manifest file and off-course by default it is created by Visual Studio 2013 when you create new app. Ok lets see below image to understand how many new tabs are added in new package manifest file.

WindowsPhone: Get the controls which are visible with in the screen bounds(C#-XAML)

Introduction:

This post is explained about "How to get child items in windowsphone " as well "How to get the controls which are visible with in the screen bounds?".

Windows App Development Tips:Top Basics for Beginners (C#-XAML)

This post is only for knowing about tips which is helpful in our daily development ,some times basic tips will be very silly,but if you don't know about them,then those makes may be one day or much time to learn them .And it is very very important thing is to knowing some useful tips ,which are helpful to boost up our development without wastage of our valuable time.I thought this post is going to much useful for blog visitors.So i just add the new tip when i got it in my development.Stay tuned up-coming tips by book mark this post. 

WindowsPhone 8.0 vs WindowsPhone 8.1: Alternative way to get screen resolutions(C#-XAML)

Introduction:

There may be many cases ,in which you need to supply higher quality images that should be fit into current device screen resolutions and its makes nice attractions for app users. Fortunately windowsphone is very good at detecting screen resolutions.However previously in windowsphone 8.0,to determine screen resolutions we are using the "App.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor" .But now its not working in windowsphone 8.1,So this post is explained about what is the alternative way for detecting screen resolutions in windowsphone store 8.1.

WindowsPhone 8.0 vs WindowsPhone 8.1:Now HttpClient is alternative for WebCleint(C#-XAML)

Introduction:

Previously in windowsphone 8.0 ,to request webservcie we are using "WebClient " class which is available from "System.Net" namespace.And now "Webclient" is no longer available for windowsphone store 8.1.So what is alternative for "WebClient" is "HttpClient" class which is avaialable from "Windows.Web.Http or System.Net.Http" name space's.

Note:HttpWebRequest is still available for both windowsphone store 8.1 & silverlight windowsphone