To add speech recognition to our app we will be using the newly released version of the Windows Phone toolkit (release June 2013) – which adds a nice new control called SpeechTextBox (that does exactly what you think). You can get the latest build using NuGet or you can download the source from CodePlex. Once you’ve…
I’ve covered in a previous post how to create wide tiles for your Windows Phone 7 application. Now it’s time to bring them to life. The easiest way to do so is by using a ScheduledTaskAgent. To create one go ahead and add a new project to your solution and from the project templates list…
I’ve recently come across an article in the Nokia Developer Wiki about creating live tiles (including wide tile) for both Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 by writing a single piece of code that works in both versions of the OS. To do this you will need to use the MangoPollo library which you…
Decided that I’d share a really simple helper class that I often use in my Windows Phone apps. It’s called IsolatedStorageSettingsHelper and it only has three methods: This is not much, but that’s all I ever needed for my apps. Hope it will be of help. Code below.
Not long ago I’ve published my first app using the devcenter developer account and not the global publisher – and just a couple of days later (or should I say weeks) I started noticing crash reports for my app. Downloaded the stack trace data in hope that I could find out where the issue was…
Metro TimeBlock is a time display control that I’ve made which should allow you to display time in any color and with any background you want. Size is also adjustable and you can choose to display either the current time or a time of your own. Properties of the control: Time – takes in any…
Are you a Silverlight / WPF developer? Want to start developing for Windows 8 as well? If that’s the case, this upcoming SilverlightShow webinar is guaranteed to give you a jump start. The webinar will teach you how to use your Silverlight / WPF experience to build amazing Windows 8 apps by presenting the similarities…
Getting the current GPS location on a Windows Phone device is rather easy. In order to start you will need to add a reference to System.Device in your project and then a using statement inside the class that you want to get the geo-location. Next we would need to declare an object of type GeoCoordinateWatcher….
Those of you wanting to learn more about metro design and how to make your apps look as metro-ish as possible should know that a new series of articles called “31 Days of Windows Phone Metro Design” has just started. The first article in the series (about the metro design principles) is already up. A…
Just letting you know that there’s an upcoming webinar on the 4th of this month about Windows Azure and how we can benefit from it in Windows Phone. The webinar will be presented by Samidip Basu and has the following agenda: Date and time: January 4th at 10 AM PDT (check your local time)Registration link:…
Below you have a style which applied to your textbox will make it fully transparent. The difference between applying this style and simply setting the Background property of your textbox to transparent or removing it completely is that the style also removes the focus effect the textbox gets when tapped. I mean no matter what…