In Windows Phone Mango, when the App is deactivated, it puts the App into the dormant state. This state provides the Fast Switching support where the App is still in memory… When the App returns from the dormant state, the Activated Event is triggered. The ActivatedEventArgs argument of the Activated [...]
Categories: Windows Phone SDK Tags: Application, Dormant, Tombstoned, Windows Phone, WP7
Splash Screen makes your App look good when it is loading initially . It might be a good idea to have a splash screen specially for the apps that takes some time to load. How to Create Splash Screen in Windows Phone ? You can create Splash Screen in Windows [...]
Categories: Windows Phone SDK Tags: Splash Screen, Windows Phone
In one of my earlier blog post , i explained about RadAutoCompleteBox showing how to display suggestions using a List of string . I had a requirement to bind custom object to the Suggestion List to the RadAutoCompleteBox and had to take help of the Telerik Support Team to get [...]
Categories: Telerik Tags: Business Objects, Custom Objects, RadAutoCompleteBox, Suggestion
In the standard Windows Phone functions like messaging or Email App, when you enter a text, you will see the list of suggestions for the text you are typing in the top of on screen keyboard. Similarly, we can display the suggestions for a textbox in the on screen keyboard [...]
Categories: Windows Phone SDK Tags: keyboard, suggestions, TextBox, Windows Phone
RadAutoCompleteBox is a Autocomplete textbox that is part of the RadControls for Windows Phone . The RadAutoCompleteBox provides a textbox along with additional functionality of providing the suggestion based on the characters the user types in the textbox . To add the RadAutoCompleteBox to your Windows Phone App , you [...]
Categories: Telerik Tags: RadAutoCompleteBox, Telerik, Windows Phone
Few days back , Microsoft has released the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update that lets the developers to target their Windows Phone Apps for Windows Phones with lesser memory as well as run the SDK on the Windows 8 developer / consumer preview . The Earlier Windows Phone specification mentioned [...]
Categories: Windows Phone SDK Tags: Microsoft, SDK, Update, Windows Phone
Recently, I have started using the Telerik’s RadControls for Windows Phone for my personal projects as well as started writing blog articles on them too. The RadControls for Windows Phone is simple to use and provides rich set of functionalities to develop windows phone App easily. RadControls for Windows Phone [...]
Categories: GiveAways, Telerik Tags: Developers, Giveaways, RadControls, Telerik, Windows Phone
If you noticed the Windows Phone start screen , you will find that there are few double wide tiles there . These include Calender Pictures HTC Weather App Tile ( HTC Phones ) if installed . One of the tiles that provides double wide tiles when pinned to the Start [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, Windows Phone SDK Tags: double, Tiles, Windows Phone
Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone provides the RadRating , a rating control that enables the developers to implement the rating mechanism in their Windows Phone Application . The RadRating control allows the user to rate something by tapping and selecting the value from the range of values . To add [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, Telerik Tags: RadControls, RadRating, rating, Telerik, Windows Phone
If you are getting the similar “UnKnown Namespace ” Error like the one shown in the screenshot below when using the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone , then it might be because of the wrong namespace being declared in the PhoneApplicationPage. The type ‘RadRating’ was not found because ‘http://schemas.telerik.com/windowsphone’ is [...]
Categories: Telerik Tags: namespace, Telerik, unknown, Windows Phone
The Windows Phone users can set the time zone via the Settings -> Datetime Form in the Windows Phone. By default , the time zone was “UTC +05:30 Chennai,Kolkatta,Mumbai,New Delhi” on my Windows Phone that was set via the “Set automatically” option. If you want to retreive this information (Timezone) [...]
Categories: Windows Phone SDK Tags: TimeZone, Windows Phone
Today, when I was working with the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone, I noticed that for all the controls and pages, the Events tab was invisible in the Properties Window. I was unable to trigger the event for example “Click” event of the Button in the Visual Studio Designer. This [...]
Categories: Telerik Tags: Events Tab, Invisible, Properties, RadControls, Telerik, Window, Windows Phone
If you have installed the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone and could not see the controls in the Visual Studio 2010 , here’s a tip to get the controls in the Visual Studio 2010 toolbox. 1. Add a new Tab in Visual Studio and name it “Telerik RadControls” 2. Right [...]
Categories: Telerik Tags: RadControls, Visual Studio Toolbox, Windows Phone
RadControls for WP7 from Telerik enables the Windows Phone developers to create beautiful and powerful Windows Phone Apps easily. RadControls for Windows Phone offers additional controls and its capabilities for the Windows Phone 7 development. These controls includes Animation Framework Application Frame AutoCompleteBox BusyIndicator BulletGraph Calender Chart ContextMenu DataBoundListBox DatePicker [...]
Categories: Telerik Tags: Installation, RadControls, Telerik, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, WP7
Telerik is organising a webinar on the topic “What’s New in Mobile – RadControls for Windows Phone” on February 21, 2012 12:30 – 1:30 PM EST ( 23.00 PM IST ) as a part of the Q1 2012 release. During this webinar , the presenter will explore new controls that [...]
Categories: Events, Telerik Tags: RadControls for Windows Phone, Telerik, Windows Phone
In Windows Phone, one can display the Scheduling Notification dialog box using Alarm Reminders The Scheduling Notification displays a dialog window with the message as well as buttons to perform actions on the notifications like dismiss or postpone. In this Blog post, I will show you how to create a [...]
Categories: Windows Phone SDK Tags: Reminders, Scheduling Notification, Windows Phone
The default behaviour of the hardware back button in Windows Phone is to close the current application and go back to the previous App or screen that was launched prior to lauching this App . In Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight or XAML App ) , you can detect the hardware [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: back button, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
In my previous blog post , i wrote about the PhoneGap API to take picture via Camera in Windows Phone . The navigator.camera.getPicture method was used to take picture via Camera in Windows Phone and the same function can be used to retreive the picture from the Windows Phone Picture [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: PhoneGap, Picture Library, Windows Phone
The PhoneGap provides the Camera.getPicture method that lets the user to take photo using the camera in Windows Phone . Infact , its the camera object that provides access to the Windows Phone Camera in PhoneGap … To open the Windows Phone’s camera to take the picture , just call [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: Camera, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
In this blog post , i will show you a simple trick to make a phone call to a number using PhoneGap . If you are developing App using silverlight framework in Windows Phone SDK , we can make use of the PhoneCallTask to make a call in Windows Phone [...]
Categories: Developer Articles Tags: Phone Call, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
Well , this is something simple which can be done in 1 line of code if you are using PhoneGap for Windows Phone . If you are using Windows Phone SDK and developing App in Silverlight or XNA , you might end up using the SoundEffect class to load the [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: Beep sound, HowTo, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
If you have noticed the PhoneGap Windows Phone Project , you will find a MainPage.XAML page where the PhoneGap runs . By Default , the Windows Phone Silverlight Application runs in the Portrait mode . To support the Windows Phone PhoneGap application to support both the orientation ( Portrait and [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: Orientation, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
The Windows Phone SDK provides the DeviceStatus class to retreive the Device specific information like DeviceFirmwareVersion DeviceHardwareVersion DeviceManufacturer DeviceName and more… For example if you want to retreive the DeviceName , use the below code to retreive it DeviceStatus.DeviceName If you want to retreive the unique device id , you [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: Device Information, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
If you want to find out the connection information of your Windows Phone using PhoneGap you can use the connection object . The navigator.network.connection.type – lets the developers know about the currrent device’s connection states and in simple terms lets you know the type of connection , your Windows Phone [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: Network Connections, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
The Windows Phone SDK in Silverlight provides the class VibrateController which the developer can make use of it to vibrate the phone . All that the developer has to do is create an instance of the VibrateController and call the start method with the timespan . VibrateController vibrate = VibrateController.Default; [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: PhoneGap, Vibrate, Windows Phone
In my previous post , i explained about displaying MessageBox in Windows Phone using PhoneGap that had only the OK button . In this blog post , i will show you how to create a MessageBox with confirmation ( OK and Cancel ) using PhoneGap . If you were doing [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: MessageBox, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
The PhoneGap API provides the method “notification.alert” to display the alert or message box to the end user in the Windows Phone App . For example , if you want to display the messagebox on the click of the button , include the following <script type=”text/javascript”> function Button1_onclick() { navigator.notification.alert(“Hi”); [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: message box, PhoneGap, Windows Phone
This was one of the errors that i received when compiling my first Windows Phone Application using PhoneGap . The description of the error message was “There is no script engine for file extension “.js”” The error is not direcly related to PhoneGap , but has to do something with [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: PhoneGap, script engine, Windows Phone
The Installation of PhoneGap is pretty simple and infact its just about copying the files to the Visual Studio template folder to kick start your Windows Phone Development using PhoneGap . One of the Prerequisite to install the PhoneGap is the Operating System . PhoneGap requires Windows 7 or Windows [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: PhoneGap, Visual Studio, Windows Phone
With the recent release of PhoneGap 1.3 that includes full Windows Phone 7 support , it looks like we got another way to develop Windows Phone App but using HTML5 and PhoneGap . In the current and the next few posts , i will explain how the Windows Phone 7 [...]
Categories: Developer Articles, PhoneGap Tags: HTML5, JavaScript, open source, PhoneGap
