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Spritemapper
Cool app! Spritemapper is an application that merges multiple images into one and generates CSS positioning for the corresponding slices.
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How to create a settings page for Windows Phone 7
From the VBTeam
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ASP.NET Mobile Handset Detection, Redirection & Development Made Easy
Today almost all web sites are designed to operate on a desktop or laptop computer. Anyone operating marketing, ecommerce, information or entertainment web sites now needs to consider the mobile phone when designing content and services. Mobile web sites development is increasing day by day and so is the number of different mobile devices trying to access the web sites.
Major problems for web developers for mobile website development are following:
* Detect mobile device and redirect user to mobile website E.g. practical client requirement: Apple users should be redirected to an Apple theme URL, RIM (BlackBerry) users should be redirected to a Blackberry theme URL and all other mobile devices should be redirected to a standard mobile theme URL.
* Mobile device database to fetch mobile capabilities in order to deliver the best possible experience to mobile users
E.g. does this phone support java or flash, or what kind of entry method is available, such as a qwerty keyboard or a touch screen? -
Handling XML data with Windows Phone 7
Data storage and access is nearly an eternal topic in all kinds of applications. In Windows Phone 7, data manipulation still plays a fundamental and important role. Regrettably, in the current Windows Phone 7 Series there is no local database API that can be used. Windows Phone 7, though, does support access to data in several ways: XML, Isolated Storage, and Cloud Storage. In this article I will introduce to you how to handle XML data in Windows Phone 7 for Silverlight applications. In detail, we'll explore three cases: how to load and render a local resource-formed XML file; how to abstract components hidden inside an XAML (XML form in essence) file, and how to obtain remote XML data via a simple RSS reader sample.
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Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage
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Phoney Windows Phone 7 Project Now Available!
UPDATE: Phoney now has a NuGet package. Search on NuGet to add Phoney to your project!
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Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Explorer
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Why it is so difficult to find a good Ads SDK for Windows Phone 7
This post try to address an issue with the Microsoft Advertising SDK, the main fact that today Microsoft is still refusing access to the Ad Center worldwide.
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Coding4Fun Toolkit for WP7 Overview and Getting Started
This post is an overview of the new Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit. It offers developers additional controls and helper classes for Windows Phone 7 application development, designed to match the rich user experience of the Windows Phone 7. The official Coding4Fun tools were released yesterday by the Microsoft Coding4fun team, as always the full source code and a sample test project are also available (the whole toolkit is completely FREE). Some of the "geeks" involved in this cool project are: Jeff Wilcox, Thomas Claudius Huber, Kevin Marshall, Stephanie Hertrich and others.
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Create quickly an app for WP7 no code involved
FollowMyFeedallows you to quickly create your Windows Phone 7 application for free without any technical knowledge.
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Who ate all the pies!!
Richard Griffin current project has taken him on an interesting journey of late and so he thought that it would be helpful to share with you some of his experiences and of course some code. He have been taking a look into charting on WP7
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Jurassic a Javascript .Net compiler
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How to write good code
