WP7
WP7
Recently I spoke at the January 2011 meeting of the New York City Silverlight Meetup about my experience developing the TWiT application for Windows Phone 7. I spent time walking people through the phone tool experience, how I developed the TWiT application and the challenges that were faced and overcome. During the talk I discussed tips, tricks, and "gotchas" every Windows Phone developer will want to know about. There was no code during this demo, but instead I focused on the process and important lessons which I think is more important. Anyone can learn to code, but getting...
I am back with another interview with my friends on GFQ Network, check out the video interview and let me know what you think . Description: “You want more tech? GFQ brought more Tech. On this special Tech-filled show, we brought in Microsoft Developer, and podcaster, Dmitry Lyalin discusses creating an application for the brand new Windows Phone 7, the life cycle of doing such coding, why Silverlight is (still) amazing and a relevant versus Flash and HTML5, the openness of learning to program for Microsoft, media mis-direction against all things MS, the Zune Marketplace and...
I am really happy to finally announce publically my efforts to build a WP7 app for http://www.twit.tv. This is something I’ve been working on since late July so its great to finally talk about it publically. For full info check out these links below or my dedicated Windows Phone 7 site for all future apps: Site: http://bit.ly/9XYfjZ Video: http://bit.ly/clw3RL Picture Gallery: http://bit.ly/by8vpW
If you’re developing a Windows Phone 7 application you might run into this nasty error when trying to run your application: System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException occurred Message= [Line: 0 Position: 0] LineNumber=0 LinePosition=0 StackTrace: at MS.Internal.XcpImports.CheckHResult(UInt32 hr)… The cause here isn't obvious from the exception, but actually its very simple once you know what to look for. In my case a basic cut-n-paste error caused bad binding code to get written: Bad code <Image Source="{Binding RelativeSource=ImageUri}" Grid.Column="0" />...
Today I had to write some code that would detect the Emulator we use to test WP7 Silverlight applications. For some reason though I had a really hard time finding the answer. Therefore I decided to post the solution here and to link the thread I finally did find which helped me find figure it out, which is this thread here. Solution: string DeviceTypeDetected = string.Empty;
switch (Microsoft.Devices.Environment.DeviceType)
{
case Microsoft.Devices.DeviceType.Device:
DeviceTypeDetected = "Real Device Detected!";
break;
case Microsoft.Devices.DeviceType.Emulator:
...