ToeTapz
Author of Beginning Windows Phone Development 2nd (Apress Book)
Beginning Windows Phone Development 2nd (Apress Book)
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
How to Create Character Animation using VisualStateManager in Windows Phone 7?
One of many things Windows Phone shine best is at how simple it is to create animation. The animation can be used in many ways. You can use it for creating animation like South Park or Simpsons. Also for the … Continue reading
How to Download and Save MP3 to IsolatedStorage?
One of the things I came across is need for downloading the mp3 files from the web and save it to the IsolatedStorage. Reason for this is because when you put too much sound files or even a movie files … Continue reading
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How to create Reusable About Page and learn about NavigationService, WebBrowserTask, MarketplaceDetailTask, and Page Transition with Animation?
About page is very important because this is where the users will read about your company profile and potentially click to go to your web site. But last thing you want is to create different about page per applications you … Continue reading
Preparing to Build Windows Phone 7 Projects in TFS 2010.
Now I am building enough of applications where I can’t no longer do manual deployments so I started today to automate the build of Windows Phone 7 applications using TFS 2010 build. This blog wont be covering continuous integration of … Continue reading
Windows Phone 7 application obfuscation using PreEmptive obfuscator
Recently, I wanted to make sure that Windows Phone 7 applications we publish are protected with obfuscation and since PreEmptive provides free professional version called Dotfuscator till next year I thought to give it a try. I been using DeepSeaObfuscator … Continue reading
Handling the “Back” Button with a Popup Open on Windows Phone 7
Using Popups in your application is a great way to present the user a nice “Yes/No” question, or provide some sort of temporary content. However, it does provide an additional challenge to handling the device’s “Back” button. According to Microsoft … Continue reading
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How to handle currently playing background music in your application?
My application failed today because of certification rule 6.5 Application that Play Music section 6.5.1. Before I get into how to fix it here is the requirements and failed result. 6.5.1 Requirement When the user is already playing music on … Continue reading
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Windows Phone 7 and Making HTTPS REST API Calls with Basic Authentication.
Recently, I been busy implementing REST API in Microsoft Azure using Windows Azure with WCF 4 and Routing mechanism. The reason for choosing to implement REST is because of interoperability between multiple platforms that we have to support (iPhone, and … Continue reading
Using Bing Maps Service and Plot Your Address (Geocode) on Bing Maps Control on Windows Phone
When we start creating business application most common things you will be doing is to plot an address on Bing Maps say for example in contact page with corporate address. To do this you will need to geo code you … Continue reading
Writing your first book.
The book I co-authored Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development is coming out in Apress at the end of November 2010. I started writing this book on May of 2010 and it took about 6 months to complete. This blog is … Continue reading
