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This article explains how to associate your application with an URI scheme in order to launch it when interaction with such URI is detected. Introduction Windows Phone 8 introduces the possibility for your app to register to a predefined kind of URI scheme. This will allow you to launch your...

This article demonstrates how to implement steganography in Windows Phone, hiding text inside an image retrieved from the gallery. Introduction Steganography is the art/science of hiding a message in such a way that it isn't obvious to anyone other than the sender/receiver that there is...

This article explains how to save and load application preferences using IsolatedStorageSettings on Windows Phone 7.5 and 8.0. Introduction Saving user preferences is a common task requirement for applications. Common scenarios include saving the user's country, top scores in games,...

This article provides a catalog of known URI schema and associations. Tip: Add the schemes for your own apps below! If your app URI is used it boosts discovery of your app and results in more downloads and users. Introduction Apps that register to handle (are associated with...

This code example creates a weather app for Windows Phone 7 using XML data from the World Weather Online service. Introduction The example uses the free World Weather Online service to get and display the weather in the user's specified location. We can search for weather based on the...

This article shows how to create a games loop in a Microsoft Silverlight application, which once created on Windows Phone 7, should be able to run with minimal modification on Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 devices. It is the first article in a series which will show how to create a complete working...

his article explains how to upload files to SkyDrive cloud storage from Windows Phone, using Live Connect Introduction SkyDrive is a Microsoft cloud service that allows you to access your files and documents on all your phones and computers, and to share them easily with your friends and colleagues...

Stegafoto is a Windows Phone Lens which enables the user to embed a piece of audio or text within the image. This article explains the theory used to embed the content (virtually "loss free") along with technical detail about the implementation. Introduction Embedding text or audio...

This article demonstrates how to consume an Open Data Protocol (OData) feed in a Windows Phone app using the OData client library for Windows Phone 7 . Note that it does not work in Windows Phone 8 Introduction The OData client library for Windows Phone 7 generates HTTP requests to a data...

Introduction This code example displays a sequence of images (Image1.jpg,Image2.jpg,Image3.jpg and Image4.jpg), loading a new image when the screen is touched. It demonstrates how to detect the Windows Phone "tap" event, how to load a local image file, and how to use a switch...case structure...

This article explains how to add SQLite support in Windows Phone 8 applications and how to start using it. Introduction A very common task for most of the applications is to store and access the data. Almost all applications has to store some kind of user data for a later use. This is the...

This article explains why the phone storage required to install a Windows Phone Application is significantly larger than the file size shown in the Windows Phone Store Introduction Sometimes the Windows Phone store may refuse to install an application, even though the size of the the installation...

This article explains how to use IsolatedStorageSettings and illustrates a helper class which enables using saving & retrieving (many) settings parameters easily. Introduction IsolatedStorageSettings is a dictionary for permanent storing values in Isolated Storage in the form of key...

JSON is a popular data representation format. This article shows how to parse a JSON string using Windows Phone and Symbian C++, and provides links to libraries that can be used to parse JSON in Qt. JSON Parsing in Windows Phone The code snippet below shows how the json2csharp and...

This article explains how to handle (serialize and deserialize) JSON strings using the Json.NET library. Introduction Most of the mobile applications need to communicate with external services (existing services like Twitter or Facebook, or with a new service that the developer must implement...

This article explains how to encrypt the data in IsolatedStorage so that it is much harder to access. Introduction IsolatedStorageExplorer Tool ( ISETool.exe ) can help the developers or testers to interact with the application data in IsolatedStorage . For some plain and insensitive...

This article explains how to debug data binding issues by inspecting the elements before they are due to be displayed by the control. Introduction Data binding allows you to link a data source defined in code to a UI description in XAML (target). While defining a binding is quite straightforward...

This article explains how Namedays application is made for the Windows Phone 7. It shows how to load XML data from the server side and bind data to UI. It also illustrates how to localize the application for different languages and how to use Scheduled Task Agent to update application. Introduction...

This article describes how to embed a WAV file into the WP7 app resources and play it. Getting started First create a Windows Phone application. Open Visual Studio and select Windows Phone Application from the installed templates. Here I have named the application "Age Calculator"...

This code snippet shows how to check whether a Windows Phone app has enough space to store its data using IsolatedStorageFile . Tip: While IsolatedStorageFile works in Windows Phone 7 and 8, if you're focussing on Windows Phone 8 only you should use the new API - see Quickstart: Working...

This article explains what is the best way to store custom application data on an NFC tag, also considering cross-platform compatibility and the ability to launch your app. Introduction If you want to work with NFC tags, the most important decision is what kind of content to write on the tags...

A solution is given how to share resources between multiple versions of an app but allowing for some differences like the app name or an icon. Introduction In order to keep multiple versions of an app it is desirable to share as much code and resources as possible. Resources present a special...

Introduction This article explains how to create a data class from an xml document. Implementation In our Windows Phone application, we need to parse the XML data and fill (deserialize) it into an object. This object will be used to populate the UI and works as our data(model) class. ...

This code example demonstrates how to store files locally using Windows Phone Isolated Storage. Official documentation on the topic(s) is available here: Local Data Storage for Windows Phone (MSDN). Tip: While IsolatedStorageFile works in Windows Phone 7 and 8, if you're focussing...

This code example shows how to load, parse and display (employee) XML data hosted on a server in Windows Phone . The code example also shows how to send the employees an SMS or email, or make a phone call. Introduction This article shows how to create a Windows Phone app which loads Employee...