Just thought I would mention an issue I had with the emulator today. I was trying to make some rest calls to a well known web service and kept getting denied with a “Not Found” error in VS. Trying the url in IE gave a 404. I finally tried in Chrome and got some meaningful …
So here it is, just in time for the biggest shopping day of the year, the Black Friday Shopper app. This app provides all the discounts and shopping info for Black Friday shoppers on the go. I knew iPhone had similar apps so I decided WP7 should too. I worked some late nights on this …
MANGO UPDATE – This code bombs in 7.1. Remove the converter to make it work. I guess that static resource is no longer provided. I went back and tested to see if anything changed in 7.0 when you remove the converter and didn’t notice any difference. So I’m not really sure what it did to …
My Windows Phone 7 application is finally published. RouteStats allows you to track your common driving routes and builds statistics about the travel time and time of day. I got the idea from driving to work every day and wondering which way was best. It’s a simplistic feature set at this point but I have …
I finally submitted my app to the market place on 10/11 during the early access program. The submission process was pretty smooth. The entire process took maybe 30 minutes. I had most of the images and information prepared ahead of time which helped. After about three days the submission status changed from “Testing in Progress” …
I like to keep things organized, especially code. So when I finished the icon/tile design for my WP7 app I decided to place them in the Resources folder of my solution instead of the default (root project folder). I marked the images as Content and set them to always copy to output. After a rebuild …
Upgraded my app to the final bits today and had a few notes to share. My Steps to Upgrade Create a new WP7 project (created a new project to make sure I didn’t miss out on any project overhead changes and skipped a merge) Copied my unit test project to the new solution folder, and …
Since the start of my WP7 app, I have leveraged IOC (specifically Ninject) to fill dependencies on my ViewModels following the MVVM Light samples. To briefly summarize, I have an app level resource called Locator which provides properties for each of my ViewModels. These properties get the instance from the IOC container. Locator: public …
I’m giving the users of my WP7 app the ability to save their data to a central server and per the developer guidelines I need to get permission from the user to do so. Wasn’t sure how to do this at first but I remembered that MessageBox works with WP7. So here is my implementation: …
I’ve attended several WP7 training events now and have heard that we can store as much data in isolated storage as the phone can hold. Apps are not constrained to an arbitrary fixed amount or percentage of phone space. But how many files can it hold? Regardless of file size, I figure the phone file …
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