Monthly Archives: November 2011

EvenTiles from Start to Finish–Part 2

November 26, 2011 – 8:45 PM

In the first part of this series about how to develop a Windows Phone application from scratch we looked at the initial project and how to initialize the Application Tile by setting elements in the manifest file. Today we will add an ApplicationBar to our application and we will add page navigation as well. We [...]

By Maarten Struys | Posted in Application Development, Development Tools, Expression Blend, Mango, Silverlight, Windows Phone, Windows Phone SDK 7.1 | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

EvenTiles from Start to Finish–Part 1

November 23, 2011 – 8:13 PM

Technorati Tags: Windows Phone,Mango,Silverlight,EvenTiles,Application Development,Getting Started,Visual Studio 2010 As I promised a few days ago, in between other blog entries I will show you how to create a complete Windows Phone application from scratch. This project starts with running Visual Studio to create an initial solution and it stops after having updated the application a [...]

By Maarten Struys | Posted in Mango, Silverlight, Windows Phone, Windows Phone SDK 7.1 | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Every Live Tile deserves a Windows Phone Application

November 20, 2011 – 10:29 PM

Over the last week I have been writing about Live Tiles in Windows Phone Mango, how you can create Secondary Live Tiles and how you can display information on the back of Live Tiles and periodically change that information. There is more to write about Live Tiles, but I think it is time to change [...]

By Maarten Struys | Posted in Application Development, Mango, Silverlight, Windows Phone, Windows Phone SDK 7.1 | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Every Windows Phone application deserves Live Tiles (part 4)

November 18, 2011 – 7:15 PM

My previous post about Live Tiles showed you how you can use a PeriodicTask to update your Application’s Live Tile periodically from inside the phone. Now we are going to move a little beyond Application Tiles and move towards Secondary Tiles. Matthijs Hoekstra, Microsoft’s Dutch Windows Phone Champ, inspired me to create the following sample [...]

By Maarten Struys | Posted in Application Development, Mango, Windows Phone, Windows Phone SDK 7.1 | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Every Windows Phone application deserves a Live Tile (part 3)

November 18, 2011 – 6:57 PM

My previous post about Live Tiles showed you how to update the back side of the Application Tile inside an application. The big drawback of this approach is that your tile will only be updated as a result of your application being executed. Depending on the information you want to display on your tile, you [...]

By Maarten Struys | Posted in Application Development, Mango, Windows Phone, Windows Phone SDK 7.1 | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Windows Embedded Compact in the (near) future

November 16, 2011 – 12:02 PM

This week, Kevin Dallas, General Manager Windows Embedded at Microsoft, confirmed there will be a next version of Windows Embedded Compact, to be released in the second half of 2012. Even though Windows 8 will have ARM support and even though the next version of Windows Embedded Standard will most likely be based upon the [...]

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Where is that Mutex?

November 12, 2011 – 3:40 PM

In the continuous story of Live Tiles I wanted to write about updating the Application Tile by using a PeriodicTask. This is a very nice way to update the tile without having to make use of a remote service. However, the PeriodicTask needs to get some data that is available in my application. The way [...]

By Maarten Struys | Posted in Mango, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone, Windows Phone SDK 7.1 | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Every Windows Phone application deserves a Live Tile (part 2)

November 10, 2011 – 10:27 PM

My previous post about Live Tiles showed you how to use both sides of the Application Tile in Windows Phone Mango and how to initialize it in the WMAppManifest.xml file. You also learned how to add local language support. Now we will focus on how to update the Application Tile within your application. Even though [...]

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Every Windows Phone application deserves a Live Tile (part 1)

November 9, 2011 – 10:32 PM

Live Tiles have been one of the nice differentiators of Windows Phone. In Mango, Live Tiles even got better, as a matter of facts, way better for end users and for 3rd party application developers. Today, applications can benefit from multiple secondary tiles that allow deep linking into the application. With Mango, all tiles have [...]

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Device Development Rocks!

November 3, 2011 – 11:46 AM

At a first glance, developing software for mobile and embedded devices does not seem to differ much from developing software for the desktop. If I limit myself to developing applications for Windows CE based devices, you can use the same development tools as desktop developers. However, there are a number of interesting differences. For starters, [...]

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