Peter Daukintis I’m writing this mainly as a central place to store this code as I need to use it frequently – hopefully it will help others also. Supposing I have a web service that I want to call that…
wp7–JSON parsing
Category: Windows Phone 7
skydrive photo upload wp7
Peter Daukintis I just modified my file upload sample (http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/wp7-skydrive-upload/) to use the PhotoChooserTask to enable photo upload. Here are the files: https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=4f1b7368284539e5&resid=4F1B7368284539E5!439&parid=4F1B7368284539E5!123
wp7 Collectionviewsource filtering
Having read a recent question on the App Hub Forums I decided to update my previous post on CollectionViewSource http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/wp7-collectionviewsource-sorting-a-listbox/ to enable filtering. So, I added a text box to enter the filter string, And the following code…
wp7 skydrive upload
Technorati Tags: wp7dev Download the sdk, which at the time of writing is here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28195 Next, head over to https://manage.dev.live.com/Applications/Index and add an application. This will provide you with an application Id and a client secret token. You also need…
wp7 – custom control project template
I couldn’t locate a Visual Studio project template for creating a windows phone 7 custom control library. So….I decided to make one. It is pretty straight-forward to create one by hand but the second time the process becomes a bit…
wp7 CollectionViewSource – sorting a listbox
A nice and flexible way to introduce filtering and sorting on a view model data collection is to use a CollectionViewSource. Here’s a quick example: Starting with a bound collection property like this… public ObservableCollection<Item> Items…
wp7 record your own accelerometer data for testing
In the recent Mango developer tools for Windows Phone the device emulator has been updated to include an accelerometer simulation screen. This enables passing data in real time to your application via the Accelerometer. Also, you can play…
wp7 pathlistbox
Since the new Mango developer tools were just released I wanted to write a quick post on PathListBox since I have been looking for an excuse to give it a try. PathListBox allows layout of list box items along an…
WP7 UserControls
by Peter Daukintis Since silverlight 2 we have had the concept of the UserControl which provides a simple way to compose a re-usable part of our user interface. This allows multiple uses of the same ui across an application which…
Simple textbox validation wp7
Since wp7 is based on Silverlight 3 then input validation can be done (love or loathe it) via exceptions. Here’s a simple example… <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1"> <Border x:Name="errorBorder" Background="Red" Opacity="0"></Border> <TextBox Margin="8" Text="{Binding MyText, Mode=TwoWay, NotifyOnValidationError=True, ValidatesOnExceptions=True}" BindingValidationError="ContentPanel_BindingValidationError"> <TextBox.InputScope> <InputScope>…