Articles filed in category 'Windows Phone 7'

  • Asynchronous Composition with the Reactive Extensions
    Increasingly, users have come to expect that applications they use continue to respond while the application processes information in the background. To achieve the best responsiveness, you need to build applications to be as asynchronous as possible. In the past, creating asynchronous operations consisted of passing callback delegates or lambda expressions to indicate what action to take when an action completes. These can lead to an unmanageable mess of spaghetti code.
  • Building CodeTweet for Windows Phone
    In this article, we take a look at what’s involved with building a simple Twitter Search client for Windows Phone. We will cover what tools you need, where to download them, how to design, build and test the app and finally, how to publish it to the Windows Phone Marketplace.
  • Cross-Platform Localization for Mobile Apps
    Chris shows us how to make sure that your app is not only cross-platform, but international and global as well.
  • Exploring the Xamarin.Forms Ecosystem
    As part of his series, Walt dives deeply into Xamarin.Forms and roots around in the details of the object model.
  • Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Development
  • New Features in XNA 4.0 and Windows Phone 7
    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Windows Phone 7. What you may not know is that there are two ways of developing applications and games for this device. Silverlight and XNA are your two choices and in this article, I cover the Games and XNA side of the house.
  • Windows Phone 7 and Telerik - It’s All About Content, Transitions and Performance
  • Windows Phone 7 Development Using MVVM and Unit Testing
    As readers of this magazine, you are all experts at certain facets of software development, be it for the desktop, the web, SQL Server and now mobile platforms. Mobile programming was a fairly arcane development arena up until the recent announcement of Windows Phone 7 (WP7). Prior to WP7, you had to become intimately familiar with the myriad platforms and form factors available and write your programs to each of those phones. With the advent of WP7, Microsoft is now con...See More
  • Windows Phone Is Here. Learn It!
  • Working with Audio in Windows Phone 7
    Smart phones are constantly evolving to fit your mobile lifestyle. Most modern phones function as full featured music and video players. Windows Phone 7 follows the path blazed by other smart phones, but adds its own twist. Your musical life on this device revolves around the Music + Videos hub. This article contains details on how to interact with the Music hub from your application.
  • Working with Windows Phone User Interfaces, Part 1
    Developing for Windows Phone is easy if you have been doing any XAML at all. That’s because you use Silverlight for Windows Phone development.
  • Working with Windows Phone User Interfaces, Part 2
    In Part 1 of this article you learned how to work with orientation changes on the Windows Phone and how to create horizontally scrolling pages using Panorama and Pivot pages. In Part 2 you’ll see how to interact with some of the built-in applications on the phone through the use of the Launcher and Chooser applications.