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Windows Phone 7 Exciting Features

Following link shows few exciting Windows Phone 7 upcoming features. http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/9f8b/3d021b77-7e43-47ec-b388-9ec301619f8b/WP7Keynote3_ch9.wmv My personal favorites: 1. Live Agents (New multithreading concept with power saver algorithms...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2011 10:41 PM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone, WindowsPhone

How to change Identity Information on Windows Phone device?

If you have a registry editor for Windows Phone, you can use it to change identity information. Following keys are currently available under hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE: Desc , FriendlyName , Name , OrigName and Username

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 1:23 PM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone, WindowsPhone

How to get IP Addresses on Windows Phone device?

Windows phone has a native API for dealing with underlying network stack. Long time ago daenet has implemented the tool called DHOST for Windows Mobile, which shows information about all adapters on device. I was a pretty disappointed as I heard that...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2011 12:49 AM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone, WindowsPhone

How to start Application on Windows Phone Remotely

First class you have to be aware of is DatastoreManager , which helps you to deal with embedded platforms. This class is implemented in assembly Microsoft.SmartDevice.Connectivity.dll, which is installed in GAC. If you need to reference it please look...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2011 12:28 PM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone, WindowsPhone

Windows Phone Developer Tools Installer hanging

If you figured out that your installer is hanging on in step (3 of 14), you need to do following. As shown at the picture above the setup is hanging while creating the image of Windows Phone Emulator. At the moment of snapshot at the picture image has...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2010 1:49 PM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone, WindowsPhone

How to get physical device properties on Windows Phone 7

One Windows Phone application should not exceed the limit defined by Application Certification Requirements . This information and many other physical idevice nformation can be queried by using of DeviceExtendedProperties helper. To help you get all information...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 6:37 PM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone

Windows Phone URI-mapping

Windows Phone provides an UriMapper object. That object defines a mapping that will be used through the entire application for all navigation process. URI mapping are used to “hide” real navigation structure and provide query string parameters to the...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 12:02 AM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone

SIlverlight Animation Rendering

Some developers know and some do not know that Silverlight has by default one Main thread. Depending on you application many other threads can be span. But there is always only one main thread which is responsible to render the UI objects on the page...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 12:44 AM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone

Windows Phone: How to programmatically initiate the phone call?

This post shows very trivial code which programmatically initiate the phone by using of cheapest network provider called Fake GSM Network. :) Calling is a Task related action, which requires two assemblies to be referenced: Microsoft.Phone Microsoft.Phone...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2010 12:54 AM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone

Windows Phone: How to send programmatically SMS ?

Sending of SMS is a Task related action, which requires two assemblies to be referenced: Microsoft.Phone Microsoft.Phone.Tasks This is very simple code which will send SMS to some specified number: SmsComposeTask smsTask = new SmsComposeTask (); smsTask...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2010 12:45 AM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone

What is not supported in WCF for Windows Phone?

This post contains the collected list of WCF related features which are not supported at WP7. WCF Silverlight 3 vs. WP7 Following list shows features which are NOT supported by WP7, but supported by Silverlight 3: WCF RIA services Dynamic Proxy creation...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2010 11:20 PM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone

HttpNotificationChannel.Open() fails with ‘NotificationChannelOpenException’

When trying to register the channel for notifications, you may notice that callback handler ‘ ChannelUriUpdated’ is never invoked. If that happens register the callback ‘ ExceptionOccurred’ . This will give you a chance to receive the exception, which...

Published Sun, May 05 2010 3:40 PM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: Windows Phone

Windows Server AppFabric Case Study on Windows Phone 7:)

If you would be happy owner of Windows Phone you could download the demo app which plays the daenet and Jettaine CAse Study on Windows Phone 7. Click here to play video or here to read about solution.

Published Sat, May 05 2010 1:57 PM by Damir Dobric

Filed under: AppFabric, Windows Phone

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Windows Phone 7 Exciting Features

How to change Identity Information on Windows Phone device?

How to get IP Addresses on Windows Phone device?

How to start Application on Windows Phone Remotely

Windows Phone Developer Tools Installer hanging

How to get physical device properties on Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone URI-mapping

SIlverlight Animation Rendering

Windows Phone: How to programmatically initiate the phone call?

Windows Phone: How to send programmatically SMS ?

What is not supported in WCF for Windows Phone?

HttpNotificationChannel.Open() fails with ‘NotificationChannelOpenException’

Windows Server AppFabric Case Study on Windows Phone 7:)