October, 2013 | Developer Publish

How to Cancel the Speech Synthesis in windows phone 8?

October 31, 2013 no comments

The Windows Phone 8 SDK provides the Speech Synthesis (Text to Speech) feature which lets the developers to provide the text input and lets the windows phone speak the text for you. Sometimes when th...

Generating Barcode in your Windows Phone 8 App using ZXing.Net Library

October 31, 2013 3 comments

ZXing.Net is a library that supports reading and generating of barcodes within the Windows Phone 8 App . The ZXing.Net Library supports the barcode formats like UPC-A, EAN-8, EAN-13, Code 39, Code 12...

How to verify if the Voice Command Definition is correctly installed in Windows Phone 8?

October 28, 2013 1 comment

With the Voice Command Definition (VCD) file, the developers can enable the feature in their app that lets the users to launch the app by tapping and holding the windows start button on the phone and...

How to Get the IP Address of the Windows Phone 8 Programatically using C#?

October 28, 2013 1 comment

The Windows Phone 8 SDK provides an easier way to identify the IP address of the phone from the Windows Phone App. Below is a function that retrieves the IP Address of the Windows Phone 8 using C#? N...

UnauthorizedAccessException when trying to get the Unique DeviceID in Windows Phone

October 25, 2013 no comments

When trying to retrieve the Unique Device ID using the DeviceExtendedProperties from your Windows Phone application, you might encounter the below error UnauthorizedAccessException was unhandled by u...

Launching your Windows Phone App using Voice Commands

October 23, 2013 no comments

The Speech API in Windows Phone 8 allows the developers to integrate the Voice Command functionality in their Windows Phone which in turn allows the users to Launch the Windows Phone App using Voice ...

How to Programatically determine if the Windows Phone 8 GDR3 Update is installed in Phone?

October 22, 2013 1 comment

Do you want to know if the Windows Phone Device has the GDR3 Update installed? You can use the Environment.OSVersion.Version property to get the version number and check the version with the 8.0.1049...

How to Upgrade a Windows Phone 7.x App to Windows Phone 8 in Visual Studio 2012?

October 21, 2013 1 comment

You might have already developed a Windows Phone 7.5 App and you wanted to utilize the Windows Phone 8 features in your Windows Phone App. In this case, you might be looking to upgrade your Windows P...

How to Select a Speaking Voice for the Speech Synthesizer in Windows Phone 8?

October 17, 2013 1 comment

The Speech Synthesizer in Windows Phone uses the default language that the user has selected in settings -> Speech App in Windows Phone. The Speech API in Windows Phone lets the developers to set ...

Presented at Windows Phone Week (Bangalore) – Enabling Speech in your Windows Phone Apps

October 15, 2013 no comments

Few days back, I had the opportunity to present a session on “Enabling Speech in your Windows Phone Apps” during the Windows Phone Week in Bangalore. The Session introduced some of the ke...

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