So my first Windows Phone 7 app is a GPS tracking app. My problem initially was the screen would lock after a few seconds of no touch activity and stop my app. A GPS tracking app isn’t very effective if you only get the first few points then shuts down. I assumed this couldn’t be …
So I had blogged a couple weeks ago how I was getting non-descript IsolatedStorageExceptions. Not knowing the reason for the exception is super irritating. As you can see from the exception details there is no indication of the root cause, only that the “operation” is not permitted. I found you can use the immediate window …
Currently trying to fix a memory leak. Don’t have a lot of experience troubleshooting these so figured I would post about. The memory leak occurs when you replay a MediaElement in the MediaEnded event. I started with a new WP7 app added the following xaml to the page: <MediaElement AutoPlay=”True” Source=”MyShortMovie.wmv” MediaEnded=”MediaElement_MediaEnded”/> and the following …
As you know I haven’t been able to unit test my ViewModels since I updated to the beta tools. With the April CTP I was able to use a c# class library with standard NUnit, updated system references and ReSharper to run the tests. After updating to the beta tools I got the following errors: …
I have found an issue with using IsolatedStorage. Haven’t tried reproducing in a new solution yet but it doesn’t seem to be caused by my code. Its really hard to tell because you get no details its just an IsolatedStorageException. It seems to occur when I stop and then start debugging then try to delete …
I started this blog to share and self document cool stuff I pick up related to .NET and software development in general. I’m a .NET developer professionally and have recently started developing WP7 apps in my spare time. So initially, the content will be a mix of cool WP7 consumer info and development woes/findings. Please …