December, 2013 | Developer Publish

Detecting if the Windows Phone has Front Facing Camera

December 30, 2013 no comments

If you want to programmatically detect if the Windows Phone has the front facing camera , you can easily do it using the Microsoft.Devices.Camera.IsCameraTypeSupported method . The Microsoft.Devices....

Guardian – Safety App for Windows Phone Users Released

December 28, 2013 no comments

Few days back , Microsoft had announced the release of Guardian – one of its safety app exclusively for the Windows Phone users . Guardian for Windows Phone was developed by a group of Microsof...

Oxygene and WP8 – How to Create Application Bar using Oxygene?

December 27, 2013 no comments

In one of the previous article , we saw how to create Application Bar using XAML in a WP8 Oxygene project. This article will explain how to create How to Create Application Bar using Oxygene Code at ...

Oxygene and WP8 – Application Bar in Windows Phone 8

December 27, 2013 1 comment

The Application Bar in Windows Phone is commonly called as AppBar provides the users with easy and quick access to the Windows Phone app’s common functionalities. The Application Bar is a row t...

Splash Screen for different Screen Resolutions in Windows Phone App

December 27, 2013 no comments

When you include a splash screen image to your Windows Phone project , the phone will automatically scale the image to the phone’s resolution . But , if you need to include different splash scr...

WP8 Error – “Installation of the application failed. Run time error has occurred. Fix the capabilities in WMAppManifest.xml file.”

December 26, 2013 no comments

Recently , I received an error when trying to run an app on one of the Windows Phone 8 . The error stated that “Installation of the application failed. Run time error has occurred. Fix the capa...

Oxygene and WP8 – Binding to LongListSelector via DataTemplate

December 10, 2013 no comments

DataTemplate lets the developers use multiple controls or elements within the ItemsControl, ListBox and LongListSelector controls. In one of the previous articles , we explained how to bind collectio...

Oxygene and WP8 – Binding Collections to ItemsControl

December 10, 2013 1 comment

The ItemsControl in Windows Phone has the ItemsSource property which can be assigned a collection such as Lists or Arrays . This example demonstrates how to bind the collection to the ItemsSource pro...