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Help my Secondary Tile will not navigate correctly in my Win Phone Application

When you are adding the ability to have a Secondary tile to your Windows phone application you may from time to time find the need to debug or mimic the launching of the application via the Secondary tile w/ the correct query string values. Sadly, debugging...

Published 08-25-2012 8:15 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, WP7, WindowsPhone, WP7 Mango

Data Binding to the Panorama control in WP7

When you build a Windows Phone 7 (soon to be 8) application, one of the screen layouts you can use is the Panorama. In most cases the number of pages in the panorama is hard defined in code but there is the occasion when you will add pages dynamically ...

Published 08-22-2012 1:56 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: WP7, WindowsPhone, XAML, WP7 Mango

Using the Isolated Storage Explorer tool on WP7 Mango to export your .sdf file

One of the biggest complaints (from myself and others) about V1 of WP7 was the total and complete lack of a built in database (although v1 of WP7 did have SQL CE on the device but developers did not have access to use it). When I say there was no...

Published 07-19-2011 6:13 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: WP7, WindowsPhone, WP7 Mango

Using Ninject (with CommonServiceLocator) with Caliburn.Micro on WP7

As I am in the process of rebuilding my Dimecasts.net WP7 application from the ground up to work with WP7 Mango one of the things I wanted to do was fully use the Caliburn.Micro framework. Caliburn.Micro has its own built in IoC container called the PhoneContainer...

Published 07-08-2011 4:35 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: WP7, WindowsPhone, Silverlight, Caliburn Micro, WP7 Mango

Missing Method Exception w/ Caliburn.Micro when using INavigationService

As I continue to build out a WP7 application using Caliburn Micro I ran into a odd error. When trying to inject the INavigationService I would get a ‘Missing Method’ exception as shown below: When I first started to look at the error it did not...

Published 05-09-2011 7:40 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, WP7, WindowsPhone

Update Error 800705B4 for WP7

So today was the first day I was able to get the NoDo update for my Samsung Focus so of course I wanted to update my phone ASAP, but….. When I ran the update I received the following error: When I googled for this error (along w/ bitch about it on twitter...

Published 04-19-2011 3:20 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: WP7, WindowsPhone

Using Binding to create Panels/Pivots in your WP7 Application

If you are building a Windows Phone 7 application it is very likely that you are going to incorporate either the Panoramic or Pivot layouts in your app. In most cases when you are building these your panels/pivots are fairly static. However, what do you...

Published 04-19-2011 5:19 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: WP7, WindowsPhone, XAML, Silverlight

Adding Runtime Intelligence to your Windows Phone 7 Application

When building any type of application which is going to be deployed to the masses it is always important to know and understand how your application is being used in order to make more informed decisions on how to maintain or extend your application. ...

Published 03-31-2011 6:07 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: WP7, WindowsPhone

How to Capture User Signatures on WP7

Since the iPhone came out a few years ago the idea of using a stylus on a cell phone to perform any type of input action as become ‘old school’. Steve Jobs once said that if your phone uses a stylus you are doing it wrong (which by the way if I...

Published 03-25-2011 5:41 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, WP7, WindowsPhone, XAML

Observations of Microsoft Testing WP7 Applications

Everyone should know that when you submit an application to Microsoft for ingestion into their marketplace the application is test by a real person on a real device. However, one thing I did not expect is that they would test the application on...

Published 03-17-2011 7:31 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: WP7, WindowsPhone

Dimecasts.net WP7 Application has been released

I am super pumped to announce that today I received word from Microsoft that the Dimecasts.net Windows Phone 7 application has been released. If you have a WP7 and you are a fan of Dimecasts.net then please download and install the app . This is the first...

Published 03-01-2011 7:43 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: DimeCasts.Net, WP7, WindowsPhone

How to Obfuscate your WP7 application via nant and build scripts

If you are building a WP7 application you really, really need to look into obfuscating your .xap prior to submission. For the time being PreEmptive is giving away a license of their Dotfuscator for WP7 usage. Running the tool via the UI is...

Published 02-22-2011 1:27 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: HowTo, WP7, WindowsPhone

Index was outside the bounds of the array when Obfuscating a LARGE WP7 application

This is a follow up to my prior post on how to obfuscate a WP7 application, which is really just a call out to Bil’s post . While trying to get a large (when I say large it takes 2+ hours just to obfuscate) WP7 application ready for publication...

Published 02-22-2011 12:14 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Help!!!, HowTo, WP7, WindowsPhone, XAML

Installing the January WP7 Developer tools

If you are in the process of trying to upgrade to the January WP7 tools and you are running the WindowsPhoneDeveloperResources_en-US_Patch1.msp package make sure you have closed down your emulator. I have found that when I had my emulator up and...

Published 02-09-2011 7:20 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Help!!!, HowTo, WP7, WindowsPhone

Early (aka Alpha Version) of the Dimecasts.net WP7 Application

I have been working on and off on my WP7 application for dimecasts.net , in fact I have started and scrapped at least 3 versions of this application. However with a extended vacation this past week I finally was able to give it some real love. I...

Published 12-31-2010 1:13 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: DimeCasts.Net, WP7, WindowsPhone

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Help my Secondary Tile will not navigate correctly in my Win Phone Application

Data Binding to the Panorama control in WP7

Using the Isolated Storage Explorer tool on WP7 Mango to export your .sdf file

Using Ninject (with CommonServiceLocator) with Caliburn.Micro on WP7

Missing Method Exception w/ Caliburn.Micro when using INavigationService

Update Error 800705B4 for WP7

Using Binding to create Panels/Pivots in your WP7 Application

Adding Runtime Intelligence to your Windows Phone 7 Application

How to Capture User Signatures on WP7

Observations of Microsoft Testing WP7 Applications

Dimecasts.net WP7 Application has been released

How to Obfuscate your WP7 application via nant and build scripts

Index was outside the bounds of the array when Obfuscating a LARGE WP7 application

Installing the January WP7 Developer tools

Early (aka Alpha Version) of the Dimecasts.net WP7 Application