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Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #15 – Get scre...

September 14, 2014 no comments

There are times when you want to get the windows phone device’s screen resolution programmatically from your Windows Phone 8.1 App . In some of my previous blog posts , i explained about the differen...

Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #14 – Text Tri...

August 26, 2014 no comments

The Text Trimming described how a text can be trimmed when it exceeds the width of the current text block . In Windows Phone 8.1 , the TextBlock has the property TextTrimming that allows the develope...

Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #11 – How to S...

August 18, 2014 no comments

In the Windows Phone 8.0 and earlier version , the developers could utilize the SMSComposeTask to send SMS from the Windows Phone App. If you are targeting the Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight model , t...

Forcing the Theme for a Windows Phone 8 App

July 29, 2014 no comments

There are times when you app is designed for a specific theme say dark theme and you would have used Static Resources . When the user changes the theme to say “Light Theme” , the app migh...

How to Get the Windows Phone App version from WMAppManifest file ?

July 27, 2014 no comments

This blog post will explain how to get the Windows Phone App version from the WMAppManifest file using C# in Windows Phone 8. The WMAppManifest file contains the configurations items related to the W...

Windows Phone Sessions at VTC2014 DevTrack

March 17, 2014 no comments

Microsoft is hosting the Virtual Tech Community 2014, one of the popular conference with interesting line-up of speakers and exciting topics. VTC2014 is scheduled to be held on March 19, 2014 between...

Different Transforms in XAML and Windows Phone

February 23, 2014 1 comment

This blog post will introduce and demonstrate the different transforms in XAML that can be used in a Windows Phone page. There are 5 different types of transforms that can be applied for an XAML elem...

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....

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...

Oxygene and WP8 – Binding Collections to ItemsControl

December 10, 2013 no comments

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...

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