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Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on January 30, 2012

Welcome to the 31 Days of Windows Phone 7 Development (Mango Edition). Each day in the month of February 2012 we are going to see a topic on Windows Phone 7 development. These topics will range from level 100 to level 400 for Novice to Professionals to gets ideas on Windows Phone 7 application development and deployment to the Market Place with ease, to pass all the certification check lists that should be followed.

Each day you can expect the article to be published by 7:00 AM IST. Members can subscribe to the series and get the article directly to the subscribed mail id for easy accessibility. This page will be the HOME Page to access the articles list, each day when an article is published the respective day’s tile will be enabled and you can navigate to the respective article.

Readers can download the article source code and the article as pdf for offline reading from the options provided at the top of each article that are going to be published. In the list below, I have covered almost all the major topics which are required to develop an application with Windows Phone SDK 7.1(Mango). If you feel any other topic that will be useful but missing here, do leave me a comment so that I can include it as well.

Note – Issues related to downloading of PDF files and Source codes for Day 24 to Day 30 has been fixed with the right files. Thanks to the readers who noted the issue and reported.

Windows Phone 7 Articles

Titles:

Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 1 – Overview and Requirements of WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 2 – Creating a Hello World Silverlight Application in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 3 – Using Expression Blend to Design the WP7 Application
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 4 – Working with Application Bar in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 5 – Working with Alarms/Reminders in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 6 – Working with Contacts in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 7 – Working with Calendar in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 8 – Working with Camera in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 9 – Working with Panorama Control in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 10 – Working with Pivot Application Control in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 11 – Working with Media in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 12 – Working with Toast Notification in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 13 – Working with Tile Notification in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 14 – Working with Raw Notification in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 15 – Working with Tiles in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 16 – Working with Launchers in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 17 – Working with Choosers in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 18 – Working with Navigation in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 19 – Working with Web Browser Control in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 20 – Working with Screen Orientation in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 21 – Working with BING Map Control in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 22 – Working with Device Information in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 23 – Working with Themes in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 24 – Working with Isolated Storage’s in Wp7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 25 – Working with Files and Folders in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 26 – Working with Creating a Local Database in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 27 – Working with Consuming an ODATA Service in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 28 – Working with Consuming a WCF Service in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 29 – Working with Encrypting Data for Security in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 30 – Installing and using WP7 Tool kit for Silverlight
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 31 – Deploying the application to the WP7 Market place

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Posted in Windows Phone 7 | Tagged: Windows Phone 7, WP7, Microsoft, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Google, Marketplace, Windows Phone 7 Tutorials, Windows Phone, Extensible Application Markup Language, Windows Phone 7 in 31 days, Novice, Mango, Software development, Indian Standard Time | 30 Comments »

F5Debug Celebrating First Anniversary

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on April 20, 2012

Today April 20th 2012, last year the same day (April 20th 2011) I created this blog branding (www.f5debug.net) will key focus on consolidating all my findings into one place. Its been a year since I came across many things in my career which I have not got in the last 5 years of my professional life. It was the same day last year I wrote my first blog for F5debug and still I feel the feeling on writing a blog on my blog site. I started writing articles/blogs on many community sites, but writing blogs on our own site gives a lot of happy to me that something I achieved on that day.

During this 1 year of journey I came across many wonderful persons who gave me ideas and motivated me to do the best for the community. I would like to mention the names of 3 people from the community who played a major role in helping me to do things over the online community. They are Mahesh Chand (C-sharpcorner.com), Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) and Vinoth Kumar (blogs.extremeexperts.com). Also I would like to thank to my wife and parents who provide me with complete support to achieve things.

F5debug Mile Stones:

F5debug have some of the Milestones which I would like to share with you all.

May 2011 — Awarded with MindCracker MVP 2011
May 2011 — Completed series of Articles on SSIS
Jun 2011 — Started a series on Windows and SQL Azure Articles
Jul 2011 — Awarded with Dotnetfunda MVP 2011
Aug 2011 — Conducted sessions on Windows Azure and SQL Azure
Sep 2011 — Released my first book on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Step by Step Tutorial.
Oct 2011 — Awarded with Microsoft MVP for the year 2011-2012
Nov 2011 — Official F5debug Logo Release and F5debug got 100K Views
Dec 2011 — Kick Started a new series on Windows Phone 7 Development
Jan 2011 — I unlock Joy program (Developed 12 Windows Phone 7 Applications)
Feb 2011 — Series of 31 days tutorial on Windows Phone 7 Development
Mar 2011 — Series of 101 How to’s on Windows Phone which makes development easy.

When it comes to milestones I used to get some question from my followers and bloggers that how much visitors I am getting per day and per month and how many views my blog gets on a day to day basis. Over all the first year have a total view of 400K plus views

Total blog page views — 4,16,000 Views (As of 20th April 2012)
Maximum views on a single day — 6,084 Views on March 4, 2012
Maximum views on a month – 1,04,000 Views on March 4, 2012
Total blog posts — 280+ Posts
Total blog comments – 589 comments
No of Categories on which Blogs posted – 44 Categories

Social Networking Milestones:

F5debug page Facebook Likes – 680+ Likes
F5debug Twitter Followers – 200+ Follows
F5debug blog Followers – 291 Followers
F5debug Linked In Connections – 250+ Connections

Below are some of the screen shots which gives some quick ideas on the consolidated milestones in graphical views

Views Per Month Graph (Last 1 Year)

Views Per Day and Per Month (Last 1 Year)

Visitors from Countries:

I really thank all my blog followers and readers who provide me support and feedback on improving the content and the technology which they are focused. For the new readers if you are interested in following my blog you can do so in one of the ways below by subscribing and following me through the social media.

F5debug Milestone – 100K Hits in a single Month(March 2012) (f5debug.net)

Posted in F5Debug | Tagged: Blog, Extensible Application Markup Language, F5debug First Anniversary, F5debug Milestones, First Anniversary, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, SQL, window phone 7, Windows, Windows Phone | 9 Comments »

F5Debug First Anniversary Give Away worth $1999 – Telerik Ultimate License

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on April 20, 2012

As many of you guys know today April 20th 2012, F5debug celebrated its first anniversary (F5Debug Celebrating First Anniversary) with some milestones around. But the celebration is not fulfilled unless F5debug have some thing to give away to his most precious readers and followers who have supported and motivated F5debug in all the aspects. F5debug along with its premium sponsors (Telerik) happy to announce the Give Away of Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET worth $1999.

To give some insight on the Telerik which I hope most of my readers have already aware of,

Telerik is a market-leading provider of UI controls and components for ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, Windows Phone (WP7), WPF and Windows Forms, as well data access layer, reporting, code analysis and refactoring tools across all major Microsoft development platforms. Combined with its automated software testing and agile project management tools as well as its content management system, Telerik offers an end-to-end solution for building applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Telerik products help thousands of companies be more productive and deliver reliable products under budget and on time.

Now what you get in this Give Away:

Telerik along with F5debug provides opportunity to my blog readers and followers to get an Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET which includes all the developer tools from Telerik along Priority Support and Source Code. Below is the list of individual tools that are involved in this collection.

Get more information on each of the product in www.telerik.com.

Now how to take part in this Give Away:

If you need to get your hands dirty with this product you need to follow a simple process to get this Ultimate License for you. The Give away window is open from today April 20th 2012 till May 20th 2012 (30 days) and the winner will be announced by June 1st 2012.

Registration Process:

The registration process is very simple that you just do the below steps and you nomination is taken into consideration automatically.

Visit www.f5debug.net and register to the blog updates using you email (Provide a valid Email ID which is used to track your nomination)
Follow us in Twitter at @f5debug and Tweet the following without changing the line “ F5debug Anniversary GiveAway: Just entered to Win Telerik Ultimate License Worth $1999 – http://wp.me/p1mCHu-1n5 by @f5debug #telerik ” Multiple tweets will give you more opportunity to win this license but don’t spam our twitter account.
Like us on Facebook page @f5debug
Last but not least, provide the below 3 details in the comments section.
- Full Name
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- Why you need Telerik Ultimate License

Note – Followers who don’t have the facebook or twitter account can subscribe the F5debug blog directly. To have a better opportunity to win the Licenses kindly follow all the steps above. Also spread the word of this Give Away in Twitter and Facebook to get some additional gifts as a part of the Give Away!!!

Thanks guys, as said above winners will be announced by June 1st 2012 through mail and twitter. Until then watch out www.f5debug.net for latest technology stuffs and some more Giveaways on the way.

Happy Programming!!!

Posted in F5Debug, Telerik | Tagged: F5debug, f5debug give away, F5debug Milestone | 6 Comments »

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #33 – Get Mobile Operator details in Windows Phone

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on May 24, 2012

In this tutorial we are going to see how we can get the mobile operator details in Windows Phone Application development. In order to get the mobile operator information we are going to use the API class which is DeviceNetworkInformation class. This class has information on the network details of the specific device from which its called. Since this class is static we can directly make use of this class without creating any instance of the same, by using some of the properties that are available by default.

DeviceNetworkInformation Class has some list of properties by default using which we can collect the information of the specified device which will be very used for system monitoring. Below is the list of properties that can be used to get the details

S No	Property Name	Property Description
1	CellularMobileOperator	Fetches the Mobile Operator name
2	IsCellularDataEnabled	Checks if the Mobile operator with a value on Data enabled
3	IsCellularDataRoamingEnabled	Checks if the Mobile Operator network allows roaming or not
4	IsNetworkAvailable	Checks if the network is available or not
5	IsWiFiEnabled	Checks if the Wifi is enabled or not over the network.

So we are going to make use of these properties to check the availability of the network and play around with the properties one by one. To start with Open Visual Studio 2010 IDE and create a new Silverlight for Windows Phone project with a valid project name as shown in the screen below. Once the project is created add some controls which are used to show the details of the network operations as shown in the screen below.

Now drag and drop few controls to the screen which are used to get the details of the network operator and other stuffs. Once we designed the screen to show the desired result our screen looks like below.

Now we need to write our code behind which basically takes the DeviceNetworkInformation class to get the required details one by one as shown in the code below. Before that we need to add the below using statement in order to make use of the DeviceNetworkInformation class properties.

using Microsoft.Phone.Net.NetworkInformation;

Now add the below code sample which just calls the DeviceNetworkInformation class (we are not creating an instance of the class as its static) with the properties as shown in the code below.

Code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
using Microsoft.Phone.Net.NetworkInformation;

namespace F5debugHowto33
{
    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
    {
        // Constructor
        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            textBlock1.Text = "Mobile Operator :- " + DeviceNetworkInformation.CellularMobileOperator.ToString();
            textBlock2.Text = "Network Available :- " + DeviceNetworkInformation.IsNetworkAvailable.ToString();
            textBlock3.Text = "Roaming Available :- " + DeviceNetworkInformation.IsCellularDataRoamingEnabled.ToString();
            textBlock4.Text = "Wifi Available :- " + DeviceNetworkInformation.IsWiFiEnabled.ToString();
            textBlock5.Text = "Cellular Data Available :- " + DeviceNetworkInformation.IsCellularDataEnabled.ToString();
        }
    }
}

These are the basic properties which can be used in such a way to gather the information of the network mobile operator, say for example when there is a change in the operator and some notification need to be handled. In those cases we can use the NetworkAvailabilityChanged event to see if there is any change in the network operator.

Now we are done with our code, just run the application by pressing F5 directly from the keyboard or we can use the Build and execute the project option from the tool bar to run the application. Once the Build is successful we can see the Windows Phone emulator with the application and the expected outputs as shown in the screens below.

Output Screens:

So we have seen how to get the mobile operator details and the network details using the DeviceNetworkInformation class and also we have seen the event that is used to notify when there is any change in the network operator or the mobile operator. That’s it from this tutorial on Windows Phone see you all in the next tutorial soon. Mean while Happy Programming!!!

Posted in Windows Phone 7 | Tagged: WP, WP 101 how to, WP 31 days, WP 7.5 Mango, WP tools | Leave a Comment »

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #32 – Use Application Deployment Tool in Windows Phone

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on May 23, 2012

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the Application Deployment tool with Windows Phone Application Development. With this tool we can deploy our application to test it with the registered windows phone device or as well with the Windows Emulators in 512MB ram emulator and also with a 256MB ram emulator. This tool is mainly used to test the application which we develop on to the Emulators and also with the real device which is registered before deploying it to the market place which can avoid the certification failure while deploying the application to the market place.

Application deployment tool is installed by default while we install the Windows Phone SDK on to the development machine and it will be available in one of the following paths as per the installation on to the respective servers.

Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.1\Tools\XAP Deployment
Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.1\Tools\XAP Deployment

We can use this application deployment tool to load upto 10 application on to the registered developers device which basically will not reduce the installed application performances. If we are going to deploy the application on to the device then we need to have a registered Zune account which basically will start the Zune Client. Now let us use this tool to deploy the application which we developed to the emulators instead of the real device, in future we will see how to deploy it to the device. Navigate to the respective path and open the application deployment tool which looks like below.

If we can see we can select the Target which is basically where our application need to be deployed. If we select the combo box we can see different options like Windows Phone Device, Windows Phone Emulator – 512MB Ram and Windows Phone Emulator – 256 MB Ram as shown in the screen below.

Since we are going to deploy our application to the Emulator we will select the Windows Phone Emulator – 512 MB option and next is to take the packaged application (basically the .XAP file) which will be generated once we are done with the application with building and executing. We can find the developed applications .XAP file in the bin folder as shown in the screen below.

Now we are done with selecting the required options and we can see the screen looks like below. Click on Deploy to proceed further which deploys the application to the Emulator.

Clicking on Deploy will open the Windows Phone Emulator and we can see the application as well as the status of the deployment one by one as shown in the screen’s below.

So we are done with our deployment, now we are good to go to test the application completely on this instance of the Windows Phone Emulator. Similarly we can change the emulator target the 256 MB ram device as well and test it completely. That’s it from this tutorial on Windows Phone see you all in the next tutorial soon. Mean while Happy Programming!!!

Posted in Windows Phone 7 | Tagged: Microsoft, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, Marketplace, Windows Phone, WP, WP 7.5 Mango, WP 101 how to, WP 31 days, WP tools, Emulator, Zune, Windows Phone Emulator | Leave a Comment »

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #31 – Test developed applications in both 512MB Ram and 256MB Ram Emulators in Windows Phone

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on May 22, 2012

In this tutorial we are going to see how to test the windows phone application developed in both 512MB ram targeted devices and also 256MB ram devices. This feature is available with the latest Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1, download and install the package using the link Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update. With this update, you can more easily develop apps and games that are optimized to run on 256-MB devices. This update also includes a new 256-MB version of Windows Phone Emulator, an updated 512-MB version of Windows Phone Emulator, and IntelliSense support. Let us see how we test the applications in both the versions of the emulator one by one.

Open Visual Studio 2010 and open any application which we developed with our earlier articles as shown in the screen below.

Let us consider that the SDK 7.1.1 is already installed and the application is developed, now first let us target the 512 MB ram emulator. We can see the option to select the 512MB ram at the top tool bar as highlighted in the screen below.

Once the Windows Phone Emulator – 512 MB option is selected we can able to test our application which will be targeting the 512 MB ram devices. Now simply run the application by pressing F5 and we can see the application opened in the emulator as shown in the screen below.

512 MB Ram Emulator

We can see Background tasks are available with the 512 MB ram Windows Phone Emulator with the same options available in the real devices as well. Now we can see in the 256 MB ram the background tasks are not available. To target the 256 Mb ram emulator, just change the emulator type in the top menu tool bar as shown in the screen previously. Once the the option is changed to 256 MB ram build and execute the project and we can see the expected outputs as shown in the screens below.

So in this tutorial we have seen how to change the Emulator settings which supports 512 MB ram devices as well on to the 256 MB ram devices with ease which in 256 MB ram the background processing is not supported.

Posted in Windows Phone 7 | Tagged: Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 7 Development, WP, WP 101 how to, WP 31 days, WP 7.5 Mango, WP7, wp7 256mb ram device, WP7 31 days, WP7 512mb ram device | Leave a Comment »

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #30 – Create a Splash Screen in Windows Phone

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on May 21, 2012

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to Create a Splash screen in Windows Phone 7 application development. Splash Screens are nothing but a nice animation or an image shown while an application or a game is loading background. Splash screen provides the user with real effect on how the application will look like. Internally if we can see, Splash screens are mainly used when a large application take some time to collect all the resources to load it completely which the splash screen shows the image in full screen. Today we are going to see how we are going to create a splash screen for Windows Phone 7 application.

Splash screen should follow some basic criteria in Windows Phone application development as below.

The image should be of 480 x 800 pixels only
The image should be of named Splashscreenimage.jpg only.
The Build Property of this Splash Screen file should be Content always.

We can use a static image as a Splash Screen or as well we can use an Animated image but with some things like creating a background processor and other stuffs which should not overwhelm the application performance. Now let us see how we can create one splash screen for our windows phone 7 application. Open Visual Studio 2010 IDE and create a new Silverlight for Windows Phone project with a valid project name as shown in the screen below.

Now let us create a splash screen using paint or a image editor tool of your choice but keep in consideration that the splash screen should be of the desired points that are recommended by Microsoft. If its failed then our application will be failed in the Certification process which normally will be done while uploading the application to Marketplace. Our Splash screen which we designed looks like below.

Now add the splash screen to the project with the name as shown in the screen below and We can customize it as per the requirement.

Now we are done with the changes, basically added the splash screen as per our design requirement. Run the application by pressing F5 directly from the keyboard or we can use the Build and execute the project option from the tool bar to run the application. Once the Build is successful we can see the Windows Phone emulator with the application and the expected outputs as shown in the screens below.

Output Screens:

So in this tutorial we have seen how to change the splash screen and the basic requirements that are to be considered before changing the splash screen. Also we can add animated splash screen using the background worker processor. That’s it from this tutorial on Windows Phone see you all in the next tutorial soon. Mean while Happy Programming!!!

Posted in Windows Phone 7 | Tagged: WP, WP 101 how to, WP 31 days, WP 7.5 Mango, WP splash screen, WP7 31 days series, WP7 startup screen, WP7 Tutorials | Leave a Comment »

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