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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 this via the debugger is not something that...
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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 make any sense. Everything appeared to be in...
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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 remember he was taking direct aim at Windows Phone...
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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 simple and easy, I want to obfuscate our .xap EVERY...
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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 I ran into an error while trying to obfuscate our...
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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 running the installer would launch, run for a second...
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One of the great features (also one which is not fully implemented in my opinion) is the backstack in WP7. The idea of the back stack is that when you navigate away from a page that page is pushed to this stack so that when the user hits the back button (or it is done via code) the previous page...
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One of the great new little features which is part of Windows Phone 7 is the ability to create and add an application bar to your application. This application bar can contain images, menu items or both. And creating them is dead simple. In this post I thought we would walk through how to setup an application...