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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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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 based on binding. In this post...
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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 built in database don’t misread that to say there...
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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 which provides basic Dependency Injection...
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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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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) I found the following link http://support.microsoft...
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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 do when the number of panels/pivots needs to changed...
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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. When it comes to adding in runtime intelligence...
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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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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 multiple devices. As I am waiting for the next release...
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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 release and more than anything is ‘get...
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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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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 have decided to post a very early (aka VERY ALPHA...