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This article demonstrates how to arrange HubTile as a wide Panorama item using Windows Phone Toolkit . Introduction The latest version of Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit provides Windows Phone HubTile control. This control can make your application stylish by adding animated tiles in...

This article explains how to install the Windows Phone 8 SDK on a Mac computer using the Parallels virtualization solution. Pre-requisites Your reasonably powerful Apple Mac computer ( i5 or higher CPU, 8GB RAM recommended) Parallels Desktop for Mac A Windows 8.x installation...

This tutorial shows how to create powerful object animation using Microsoft Expression Blend. This is a complementary article to 2D games using Silverlight series. Introduction Microsoft Expression Blend (included in the Windows Phone SDK) is a powerful visual design tool for making visible...

This article shows how to create an "About" or "Information" page for a Windows Phone application, using the Project Template from Telerik RadControls . Introduction Telerik RadControls have a standard application template which has optional predefined features, including...

This article explains how to simulate a 1080p emulator to develop application adapted to Lumia 1520 without device Note: This is an entry in the Nokia Imaging and Big UI Wiki Competition 2013Q4 . Introduction Since the announcement of the Nokia Lumia 1520 , the new windows...

This article demonstrates how to create "Tilt Effect" for Windows Phone. This effect makes UI components appear as though they have been slightly depressed on one side or tilted. Introduction Windows Phone provides a visual effect called Tilt Effect which has the ability to add additional...

This article contains links to toolkits and libraries that community members have found useful for Windows Phone development. Introduction There are an enormous number of libraries and toolkits for Silverlight (.NET) that can be used while developing Windows Phone applications. This article...

This article explains how to get started with the TouchDevelop software development environment on Windows Phone 7. The TouchDevelop project lets you write programs directly on your Windows Phone in an easy and fun way. Introduction TouchDevelop is a radically new software development...

This article explains how to use Crypto++ , a C++ library that offers various cryptographic schemes on the Windows Phone platform. Introduction There are several C# APIs which can be used by Windows Phone apps to encrypt and decrypt data. If you wish to use C++ instead...

This article shows how to use the Telerik RadCartesianChart to create a game scoreboard for a Windows Phone app. Note: Telerik RadControls are commercially licenced. You can evaluate them with the trial version from here Introduction This article explains how to create a scoreboard...

This article explains how to setup a Windows Phone 8 emulator inside a Windows 8 virtual hard disk. This may be useful if you wish to try out the Windows Phone 8 SDK on a recent PC running Windows 7. Warning: Running the Windows Phone 8 emulator from a bootable VHD is not supported or tested...

This article explains how to create a Windows 8 Virtual Machine using VMWare software and install the Windows Phone 8 SDK on Windows 8 running on Virtual Machine. It also explains how to enable Hyper-V and Windows Phone 8 emulator. Note: This article was a winner in the Windows Phone 8...

In Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Notes ,it mentioned that this tool doesn't support Windows XP which is still used by a significant number of users. While trying to install the SDK in Windows XP, an error message pops up and the installation stops. Actually, developers can install the...

This article explains supported and unsupported Silverlight controls for Windows Phone. It is a good reference material when porting any Silverlight desktop application. Will try to create example are also attached of each control . Stub: This article is a stub - an "empty" article...

This article explains how to add an application bar to your Windows Phone app. It extends content on MSDN with concrete examples and a downloadable source code example. Introduction The Application Bar provides access to the Windows Phone app menu. By default the bar contains a set of icon...

Introduction This article shows how to change the foreground and background colour, and opacity, of the Windows Phone Application Bar. Customised App bar XAML The following XAML shows how to set the foreground and background colour and opacity of the application...

This article explains how to dynamically set the default (start) page of application in Windows Phone. Introduction The default start page for an application is set in WMAppManifest.xml - in the DefaultTask node of the NavigationPage tag. While having a static start page is ideal for some apps...

Overview Use the Navigate() method of NavigationService to navigate between pages in a Windows Phone app and pass string parameters. Note: Page navigation is fully covered in How to perform page navigation on Windows Phone (Dev Center). This is a very brief overview of only one...

This article explains how to terminate a Windows Phone app programmatically. Introduction The Windows Phone app lifecyle is such that apps are typically terminated by the user pressing the back button, or pushed into a dormant state (and perhaps later tombstoned) if the user activates another...

This article explains how to implement easy navigation between pages in Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 application. Introduction This is a sample application to demonstrate how to introduce easy navigation in your application. As your application grows, so does the number of pages in...

This article demonstrates how to run an application under lock screen on Windows Phone. Introduction Many a times I've faced problems while trying to perform some application activities under lock screen i.e. when the lock screen is active. As soon as the lock screen is active, the application...

This article explains how to use UriMapping in Windows Phone 7. Introduction UriMapping is used to define a mapping (alias) between a short URI and the full path of the XAML pages within a project. Use of an alias URI empowers developers to change internal structure of a project by avoiding...

这篇文章展示了如何在Windows Phone 7设备上保存和加载应用程序首选项。 简介 在大多数的应用程序中，保存用户首选项是常见的任务。普通的情况是-就像团购网那样保存顾客群体，对游戏中的最高分进行存档，保存顾客在游戏中首选的游戏声音片段。这篇文章对用户的首选项进行存档的流程进行讨论。 类 IsolatedStorageSettings 类涉及到我们的操作，可以用来保存和加载用户的这些首选项。这个类帮助我们保存键值对。备重启来IsolatedStorageSettings中的数据不会丢失。那些设置是保存在应用程序的独立存储空间的...

This article explores the suite of tools called "Marketing in a Box", and provides insight on how to take full advantage of it to promote an application. Note: This is a community entry in the Series 40 Webinars - Contribute and Win Competition 2013Q1 with Marketing in a Box competition...

This article looks at the author’s experience in using certain aspects of the ‘Digital Marketing Toolkit’. Then a selection of features of the toolkit are analyzed and recommendations are made for future improvements while giving useful tips to the reader. A brief overview of the mobile phone market...