There are many threads on the web that speak of reading a text file in a Windows Phone 7 application however most of them target Isolated Storage which is required when you need to manipulate data during execution/runtime. Opposite to that there are scenarios when your application requires various forms of data avaialble as part of the application package itself and deployed on the client device rather than being manipulated during execution of your application.
About a week ago there was a very good article with tips to make your wp7 app a killer app. Tip 24 was about tactile feedback. Tactile feedback can be something like 30 milliseconds running the VibrateController. That’s very easy, just like this:
VibrateController vibrateController = VibrateController.Default;
vibrateController.Start(new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 0, 30));Because I just want to call one method instead of two lines of code, I created a small static method.
public static void GiveTactileFeedback()
{
VibrateController vibrateController = VibrateController.Default;
vibrateController.Start(new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 0, 30));
}Alright, but now I had to add this method call to every Button Click, ListBox SelectionChanged, and ApplicationBar menu or button use. Probably there are some more places where I want to give a little bit of feedback. So I’m thinking about a solution, a generic solution. I remember how easy it was to apply the TiltEffect. So my mind was going the direction of a similar solution. So I started with some Attached Dependency Properties, the same mechanism that’s used to implement the TiltEffect. So enable it for example in the root of your Phone Page and only suppress the effect if you don’t want to apply it a special occasion.
The Windows Phone 7 development team added a set of 32 icons to the SDK to be used on the Application Bar by developers of external applications.
This number seemed quite low to get things done, even more after seeing the other icons spread across the native Windows Phone 7 applications (like the “send” icon on the messages, the “attach” icon on the mail app, etc.)
Thus, I now present you a collection of 132 extra icons in comparison to the 32 that comes on the SDK (please click on the image below to get a full size visualization of the collection)
Tanti pensieri, tante idee, tanto fantasticare…
Alla fine sembra che niente cambierà, rimarrà tutto com'è, senza grosse opportunità che qualcosa cambi.
Sono stato uno scemo a cominciare a fantasticare ancora prima che qualcosa si muovesse.
Mi servirà di lezione :/
by Chris Sainty
One of the most useful new tools with the latest Windows Phone SDK is the Isolated Storage Explorer.
It is a command line tool used for downloading and uploading the contents of an application’s Isolated Storage folders to either the Emulator or a Device.
With Windows Phone “Mango” declaring RTM and developer tools hitting “RC”, it is time to start getting websites updated for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) availability on Windows Phone. In today’s post, we’ll describe changes to the browser’s user-agent (UA) string so that you can start testing those website updates.
This is the third article about the new HubTile control from the latest release of Windows Phone Toolkit – August 2011 (7.1 SDK). This time I am going to talk about freezing and unfreezing tiles. It is a good practice, from performance point of view, to freeze the animation of your tiles whenever they are not visible.
NOTE: For more information about data binding, the key properties, methods, events and the main features of the Windows Phone HubTile control you can take a look at my previous posts:
To show data to the user you have to load data and bind data – but which one is the slow part? Answer: It depends on the nature of your data and the complexity of your UI. This post will show you that data can be loaded on the UI thread or the background thread, and data can be bound all at once or a few items at a time. These data handling techniques can be used together to create one of the most important concepts in Windows Phone 7 – perceived performance. Full source with demo app showing the scenarios can be found at the bottom.
Windows Phone OS 7.0, you could update your Live Tiles (but not create them) – but you had to do it via a push notification. In Windows Phone OS 7.1, this changes to allow you to not only update the Live Tile for your application, but your application can create multiple Live Tiles.
