31 Days of Windows Phone Metro Design

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….

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.

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…

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…