WebClient/WebRequest threading untangled
WebRequest and its baby sister WebClient behave differently regarding what thread they return on. This is a short post to really clarify what returns where. Summary WebClient will always return…
Crafting the Øredev Windows Phone app live tile
In November last year, it was once again time for the 2011 Øredev developer conference. For the 2010 conference, we at Jayway created a schedule app with a social twist…
WP7 getting started (6) – Make your application come alive
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started…
WP7 app update and NeutralResourcesLanguage
The Windows Phone Marketplace was updated with new features in July 2011, one has to do with default language. The previous process to submit an app required you to define…
WP7 getting started (5) – Using databound controls
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started…
WP7 Marketplace Beta – new app downloadable delay
Have you seen the new (since fall 2011) ways to publish a Windows Phone app to Marketplace? In addition to regular publishing, you can now publish as private beta or…
Implicit styles in Windows Phone 7
Coming from WPF and Silverlight for the desktop into Silverlight for Windows Phone, which is Silverlight 3, can leave you longing for some features – one that I missed was…
Fixing WP7 app not starting after project rename
If your Windows Phone 7 project isn’t starting at all – you’re not even hitting App.xaml.cs, you’ve probably renamed the app project. Fix: Set the startup object on the app…
WP7: Link in text with RichTextBox on mango
While the first iteration of Windows Phone was based on Silverlight 3 the upcoming release, mango, is based on Silverlight 4. That means a lot of new functionality like implicit…
WP7: Background execution – revisited!
The dust from what was presented at Mix11 has long settled and the mango released had been packaged. The tools are with us and we are just waiting for the…
Show a minimized panorama application bar
The first version of WP7 design style guide, specified that the panorama should not include an application bar. In Mango, Microsoft have reconsidered, and you can find it in the…
WP7 build error ‘Xap packaging failed’
Today my Windows Phone 7 solution started giving me one single build error: Xap packaging failed. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Short story A file…
Loading data during WP7 Page navigation – the slow, the fast and the incremental
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…
WP7: Right alignment bug for item templates with grids
If you have done a few templates with some of the content aligned right and other content aligned left in a grid. You have probably bumped into this. It took quite some time…
LowProfileImageLoader with GIF support for WP7
LowProfileImageLoader I’ve recently bumped into the need to display images from various RSS feeds in a Windows Phone 7 app. UI binding and loading of images can easily degrade the…