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The Windows Phone SDK provides the SaveContactTask that enables the users to save a contact from your windows phone App . To use the SaveContactTask , follow the below steps 1. Add the namespace “using...
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The Windows Phone SDK provides the MediaPlayerLauncher which allows the developers to play video or music in the WP7 App . The MediaPlayerLauncher defined in the namespace “Microsoft.Phone.Tasks” will...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #11 – How to Send SMS in...
In the Windows Phone 8.0 and earlier version , the developers could utilize the SMSComposeTask to send SMS from the Windows Phone App. If you are targeting the Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight model ,...
View ArticleHow to Retrieve the Installed Speech Recognizers in Windows Phone?
Do you want to retrieve the list of installed speech recognizers in Windows Phone? The Windows Phone 8 SDK provides the static InstalledSpeechRecognizers class which includes the static property All of...
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The Windows Phone 8 SDK provides additional tool called “Location Simulator” for testing and simulating the location tracking. The Location Simulator can be accessed by clicking the Additional tools...
View ArticleDownload Windows Phone 7.8 SDK Update
Microsoft has released the Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 which is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. When you install the Windows Phone SDK Update for...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8 SDK and Applying Styles in Visual Studio 2012
We generally use the Built-in styles for the Windows Phone controls so that the App is theme aware and looks good in both the dark and the light theme with different accent colors. For example , the...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8 SDK Feature – Graphical Manifest Designer
The Windows Phone project includes the WMAppManifest.xml, a XML file that contains the important Windows Phone app related information like the Capabilities that the application needs, Display Name,...
View ArticleQ&A #27 – What are the Emulators available in Windows Phone 8 SDK?
What are the Emulators available in Windows Phone 8 SDK? When developing a Windows Phone applications using the Windows Phone 8 SDK, the developers have the option to test their Windows Phone App on...
View ArticleWindows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update
Few days back , Microsoft has released the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update that lets the developers to target their Windows Phone Apps for Windows Phones with lesser memory as well as run the SDK on the...
View ArticleHow to use SaveContactTask to save contact in Windows Phone ?
The Windows Phone SDK provides the SaveContactTask that enables the users to save a contact from your windows phone App . To use the SaveContactTask , follow the below steps 1. Add the namespace “using...
View ArticleHow to return JSON instead of XML in ASP.NET Web API when using Chrome ?
When using the ASP.NET Web API in Google Chrome , there are times when you see the XML output instead of JSON. You might want to request JSON data so that you can view it in the browser. How to return...
View ArticleMissingMethodException ‘Xamarin.Forms.Device.get_RuntimePlatform’ in...
There are times when you might get the System.MissingMethodException ‘Xamarin.Forms.Device.get_RuntimePlatform’ when working with the Xamarin.Forms application and using the method...
View ArticleUsing Conditional Compilation in Xamarin Shared Project for iOS
There are times when you might want to perform an action that is specific to a device in the Xamarin Shared Project. For example , assume that you have to set the string named title within the Xaml...
View ArticleHow to Change the Start Page of the Xamarin Forms Application ?
By default , when you create a new Xamarin Forms application in Visual Studio , it creates a MainPage.xaml in the portable (PCL) project and this is set as the start page of your android and iOS...
View ArticleF# Recipe #3 – program to find if the number is positive or negative
Problem Write a program in F# to find if the given number is a positive or negative number. F# program to find if the number is positive or negative. // Learn more about F# at...
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