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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

WindowsPhone Facebook Integration:How to post message/image to FaceBook Fan Page(C#-XAML)

Introduction:


Now its time to a requirement is "How to post message/image to Facebook Fan Page from windows phone".Actually there is lot of resources is available for posting message on facebook profile wall page.But for posting message on facebook fan page,there is no resources available.However we will talk with this post.

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

WindowsPhone 8.1 LightSensor :Now the great "LightSensor" class is available for phone (C#-XAML)

Introduction

Again the great start of windowphone 8.1 is now "LightSensor" class available for developers.LightSensor returns the ambient-light reading as a LUX value.An ambient light sensor is one of several types of environmental sensors that allow apps to respond to changes in the user's environment.So You can use the ambient light sensor to detect changes in lighting with an app written in C#.

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

WindowsPhone HttpWebRequest vs WebClient:Post JSON data to WebService Beginners Tutorial(C#-XAML)

Introduction:

What is webservice?

Web services allow different applications from different sources to communicate with each other without time-consuming custom coding, and because all communication is in XML, Web services are not tied to any one operating system or programming language.

For example, Java can talk with Perl, Windows applications can talk with UNIX applications.and it is way of integrating Web-based applications using the XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI open standards over an Internet protocol backbone

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Windows Phone Development vs Android Development Tutorial for Beginners

Introduction:

Smartphones are a recent phenomenon and weren't always this popular. Prior to the Android vs. iPhone vs. WindowsPhone debate,and as a developer we can't imagine which mobile platform will be hero in future ,and so mobile application developer it is best practices to know about other mobile platforms (android,iphone,windowsphone,blackberry..etc) 

However if you have been developing android apps and are interested in building apps for windows phone and also vice versa .this post is for you.And so lets start comparison between android vs windows phone development

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

WindowsPhone TilePanel: Repeating(Tiling) image background(C#-XAML)

Introduction:
Sometimes we may need to make repeat single image(ex.21x20) across the windows phone background.It is very simple process and also may be useful requirement for you in future.Because it is good way for providing nice background in a page.lets understand the sample

Sunday, 4 May 2014

WindowsPhone Store 8.1 vs WindowsPhone 8: TextBox control having "Header" and "PlaceholderText" Properties(C#-XAML)

Introduction:

The TextBox control in Windows Phone 8.1 SDK supports setting Header text. You can also modify the header template to place explicit content and/or design it as per your need. This was asked by many developers to provide in the default control, as some third party libraries already provide this feature.

Thursday, 1 May 2014

WindowsPhone Store 8.1 vs WindowsPhone 8: Launchers and Choosers(C#-XAML)

Introduction

Windows Phone store 8.1 introduces an important change in the Windows Phone developer ecosystem. In this release, Windows Phone converges with the Windows Store apps platform into a single developer platform that runs the same types of apps i.e Windows Runtime apps.There is lot of changes included between windowsphone 8.0 and windowsphone store 8.1 .Like windowsPhone 8.0 there is no Launchers and Choosers  available  in  windowsphone store 8.1 ,as well as namespace "Microsoft.Phone.Tasks" is no longer available in store 8.1 OS.

Monday, 28 April 2014

WindowsPhone KeyBoard: Prevent page screen scrolling up when soft keyboard is opened(C#-XAML)

Problem:
​Generally in windows phone when TextBox is focus soft-keyboard will be open ,but here problem is by default page screen to shift upwards when keyboard opened and again shift previous position when user closed the keyboard by tap on screen.Actually this question is raised at MSDN WindowsPhone Development Forums.Even  lot of times this question is raised by developers and however more resource's available for solving this issue. 
   Requirement :Page UI having header,body and footer. In page UI there is a TextBox  just above the footer. When user focus on this TextBox the page header is going to invisible.But user doesn't want to page header shift upwards when keyboard is opened


Note: This Sample is targeted on WindowsPhone 7.1

Tuesday, 22 April 2014

WindowsPhone 8.1 App Deployment :How to deploy .appx file with Application Development Tool

Introduction:

In prev post i was explained about creating new project on windows phone 8.1 sdk.During development you typically deploy and run your app from Visual Studio. Optionally, you can also use the stand-alone Application Deployment tool to deploy your app to the emulator or to a registered device.Often when you write a Windows Phone  application you do not want to give users the full source code. In such cases it is possible to share only the build file and deploy it to a device or emulator. You can accomplish this using the Windows Phone Application Deployment tool that comes with the RTM version of Windows Phone Developer Tools.

Friday, 18 April 2014

WindowsPhone 8.1 SDK: First Sample for Beginner's Tutorial(C#-XAML)

Introduction:

Windows Phone 8.1 introduces an important change in the Windows Phone developer ecosystem. In this release, Windows Phone converges with the Windows Store apps platform into a single developer platform that runs the same types of apps i.e Windows Runtime apps.So that please read this post before going to read about this article.
However in this post ,learn how to create a new project, and explore the windows phone 8.1  sdk development environment.
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