31 Days of Windows Phone Metro Design

ByMarius Bughiu January 2, 2012November 4, 2023

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 link to the post and to all the upcoming ones can be found here (ux.artu.tv has since been taken down).

Articles will pop up once a week, maybe twice so be sure to check them out.

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Leveraging Windows Azure for the Windows Phone Developer – Webinar

ByMarius Bughiu January 2, 2012November 4, 2023

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:…

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Insolated Storage Settings Helper for Windows Phone

ByMarius Bughiu November 3, 2012November 5, 2023

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.

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AdMob crashing Windows Phone apps. What is the alternative?

ByMarius Bughiu September 16, 2012November 5, 2023

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…

C# | Windows Phone

Creating wide tiles for your Windows Phone 7 app

ByMarius Bughiu May 5, 2013November 5, 2023

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…

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Periodically update your live tiles using ScheduledTaskAgent

ByMarius Bughiu June 23, 2013November 5, 2023

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…

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Windows Phone 7: Getting the current GPS location from the device

ByMarius Bughiu January 15, 2012November 4, 2023

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….

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