In Windows Phone (as in the other Silverlight/WPF dialects), you can force any UI control to fill its parent panel’s width by settings the HorizontalAlignment property to “Stretch”. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for controls to be used as item within…
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Remember the problem of the missing If-Modified-Since HTTP header property on Windows Phone’s HttpWebRequest described in my last post? When trying to re-use some of the code I’ve suggested as solution to that problem in a Windows Store App, I…
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One of the annoying things of working with .NET in desktop, Windows Phone and Windows Store projects in parallel is the fact that each platform supports a different subset of the .NET framework’s functionality. A common example is the different…
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There are several reasons why you’d like to maintain two separate versions – one for Windows Phone 7, one for Windows Phone 8 – of an App, the 720p screen resolution featured by some WP 8 devices but not supported…
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Although Windows Phone 8 has been around for about one year, the previous version WP 7 is still used by approximately one third of the worldwide Windows Phone users, according to the latest AdDuplex statistics. Of course, I don’t know…
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When working with Windows Phone user interfaces, Data Binding is one of the core principles for separating data and logic from the UI. Binding of texts, numbers, boolean values, etc. is quite easy (at least as long as nested relative…
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Welcome back! In the first part, I described the problem of not being able to create Secondary Tiles with arbitrary background color in Windows Phone out of the box. But the solution is coming, in several simple steps! One note…
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One of the smart features of Windows Phone is the integration of Secondary Tiles: This allows an app to add tiles to the phone’s start screen that enable the user to start specific actions inside your app – with several…
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Let’s start with a small UI issue I noticed some time ago in some of my Windows Store App projects: When opening a simple ComboBox control and scrolling through its items, the list of items is repeated continuously – when…
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