Category Archives: Smartphone OS

Many months ago (6 December 2011) I provided in a post a first list of useful links for Windows Phone developing. In the following you can find some more links that could be useful if you are a WP8 programmer! I’ll add … Continua a leggere →

Sometime it is useful to insert in your WP8 app the capability to start a navigation to a destination that can be derived, for example, from the address of a someone/some place or from the geocoordinate of a point in a map. … Continua a leggere →

Very often it is useful to take some screenshots from your Windows Phone 8, expecially if you are a developer and you need to make a manual of your app or simply some PowerPoint slides. However also a consumer user can … Continua a leggere →

I have Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 and now I was looking for the “Past Special -> Paste XML as Classes” feature allowing me to copy a XML and paste it as a serializable type. However, even though I found several … Continua a leggere →

Già da inizio febbraio giravano voci della presenza dell’aggiornamento alla 7.8 anche per il “glorioso” LG Optimus 7 (LG-E900). Da tempo ho già ricevuto notifica dell’aggiornamento sull’HTC HD7 … nulla a tutt’oggi per l’LG! Sono quindi ricorso quindi al consolidato “metodo della … Continua a leggere →

As I recently read in an article, “Windows Phone 7 was a great operating system, but the adoption rates were not superb. Microsoft had to abandon its old Windows Mobile operating system and had to play catch-up with iOS and … Continua a leggere →

Ieri sera, circa alle ore 18:00 italiane, si è tenuto a San Francisco il Windows Phone Summit,  l’evento Microsoft (trasmesso in streaming video su http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Windows-Phone/Summit) dedicato agli sviluppatori dove è stato presentato Windows Phone 8, prossima major release del sistema operativo … Continua a leggere →

Very often we have a set of icons to be used for ApplicationBar buttons or in an application page. Very often we are interested in the “dark” version of each one and you would like to see all the icons … Continua a leggere →

In general you can provide, in your solution, several AppResource files, a default one (AppResource.resx) and one for each language you like to support (es. AppResource.en-EN.resx, AppResource.it-IT.resx, AppResources.es-ES.resx): the default one will be used for all the other languages not … Continua a leggere →

Here you can find some useful link for phone 7 programming: Programming Windows Phone 7 (free ebook of Charles Petzold) WindowsPhone Dev Center (see this post) Windows Phone 7 Training Course Windows Phone codenamed “Mango” Training Course Silverlight 4 Training Course … Continua a leggere →

How to force tombstoning for debug in Mango? In order to test your tombstoning code you can force your application to be tombstoned instead of kept in memory during debugging. To do this, just open your project properties panel, click … Continua a leggere →