I’ve been messing around around with the ms translator api (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512435.aspx) and thought I’d post my sample code. http://cid-4f1b7368284539e5.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/Wp7%20Speech%20To%20Text/TextToSpeech.zip A quick app that speaks with a localized French accent.
Category: Windows Phone 7
databinding BingMaps Control Wp7 MVVM
Ok, so a similar treatment for the Bing Maps control as for previous posts on the Pivot and Panorama controls. So starting out with a standard Windows Phone Application project… Straight into the xaml: <Maps:Map x:Name="map" Grid.Row="1"> <Maps:MapItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding PushPins}">…
WCF Rest Service – WP7 Client
Data Binding Panorama Control WP7 MVVM
by Peter Daukintis Ok, this is just a quick follow-up to a previous post Data Binding Pivot Control just as confirmation that this approach will work for the WP7 Panorama Control as well. Starting with the project from the previous…
WP7 looping selector
by Peter Daukintis After release of the RTM software tools for WP7 I was pleased to see the looping controls manifested as DatePicker and TimePicker since I was considering creating similar…These are built on top of the LoopingSelector control which…
Data Binding Pivot Control WP7 MVVM
by Peter Daukintis Ok, having had access to the official WP7 Pivot control in the RTM Tools for Windows Phone 7 for a few days I thought it was time to explore and particularly in it’s data binding capabilities. I…
WP7 ListBoxItem Animation on bound data changes (MVVM)
by Peter Daukintis Recently, I found myself needing to animate a List Box Item in response to it’s underlying bound data changing in a Windows Phone 7 application. Seems like this would be a fairly common requirement. I should add…
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 7 – VisualStateManager transitions)
by Peter Daukintis So all that remains is to transition between the login ui to a welcome screen. I guess there are a number of ways of approaching this but I have decided to use the visual state manager. First,…
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 6 – loading screen)
By Peter Daukintis First we need to create the loading screen user control which is heavily based upon the one used here http://www.orktane.com/Blog/post/2010/01/23/iPhone-Sudoku-in-Silverlight-using-MVVM.aspx. It consists of a grid containing eight rectangles which have associated animations that cycle through different greyscales/transparencies.…
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 5 – creating the basic UI)
by Peter Daukintis Okay, so we haven’t touched on any of the user interface yet but this supports the theory that we should be able to develop the user interface independently of the code. So, these are the areas we…