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.
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}">…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…