Textured gradient backgrounds are made by using gradients and noise images. For CSS gradients you can use a generator like this one. For noise images, again, you can use this noise generator. The trick for making textured backgrounds lays in combining the CSS background properties. Instead of using only gradients as a background or only…
CSS3 allows the use of custom fonts trough the @font-face rule. They are really easy to add and the syntax looks like this: This declares a font for use within your web page. An example would be: Now to apply the custom font to your text you can use the font-family property: A great source…
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…
To get you started you will need an ISO image of Windows 8 and also the Windows 7 USB / DVD Donwload Tool which will help you put that image on the USB stick. You can download both of them by clicking their respective images below. Install the Windows 7 USb Tool after download finishes….
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…
Below you have an extension method that can help you convert any hex color code to a Color object. The method above can only convert 8 characters ARGB color codes.In order to convert simple RGB codes too we will check for the length of the string (9 = ARGB and 7 = RGB) and in…
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….
Okay, so what I will do here is explain you how to create your own code snippets to use in Visual Studio 2010 without using any add-ins related to snippet designing. A post on snippet designers / explorers and how you can use them to build better snippets faster will come sometime next week I…
Code snippets are a great way of improving your productivity because they allow you to define pieces of code which you can later on insert into your projects by using a short alias. Although they’ve been in Visual Studio for quite some time not many people know what they are, what exactly they do and…
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…