Live Tiles are one of the key components that are specific to the Windows Phone platform and allow pushing informational messages much faster to the...
0 replies - 8935 views - 07/25/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
I blogged a while ago about a hidden endpoint in Pandora that allows developers to query the Pandora service for artist information. The service itself is...
1 replies - 7673 views - 05/17/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
I was working on a download manager for Windows Phone, and although I expected this to be a fairly simple and straightforward project given the existing tools,...
0 replies - 10565 views - 05/15/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
It's now time to work on the actual upload mechanism for the application. It still relies on OAuth, but as it was shown in the previous article, the foundation...
1 replies - 7417 views - 04/06/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Time to get further with OAuth, and now it gets a little bit more
complicated because we'll have to deal with request signing (which might
be a headache...
0 replies - 5862 views - 04/05/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
MVVM Light offers a class specific to every ViewModel instance that is used in the context of an application - Messenger. One might ask - what exactly is it...
4 replies - 19360 views - 03/30/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
We all know that Windows Phone 7 doesn't carry support ringtone modifications (not by default). This can be a bit frustrating for people who don't like any of...
2 replies - 26912 views - 03/17/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
The long awaited update for the official developer tools is out. And although the actual update for the phone itself is not out, you can already see what the...
0 replies - 10453 views - 02/04/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
There are tons of question floating around the Internet of users asking how to take screenshots from a Windows Phone 7 application or how to capture the system...
0 replies - 6109 views - 01/25/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
So now that there is a basic UI layout (described here) I can start working on the application functionality and the first thing I am going to start with is...
0 replies - 8446 views - 01/03/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
So it’s about time I start working on the UI for the Flickr for Windows Phone 7 application. Now that you have the core engine ready, it’s time to put it...
0 replies - 5518 views - 10/24/10 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
I talked a lot about web requests and retrieving a lot of information related to Flickr photos, groups, contacts and what not. There are still two categories...
1 replies - 9980 views - 10/19/10 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Flickr provides functionality to create groups of people with similar interests. For example, someone might be an avid automobile fan, so that person creates a...
0 replies - 5548 views - 10/12/10 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
I am not entirely sure how good the default weather application is – the one bundled with the Windows Phone 7 system, but I’ve always wanted to develop my...
3 replies - 13018 views - 09/12/10 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
If you are developing applications for a specific mobile platform,
you will eventually feel the need to debug on an actual device. Windows Phone...
0 replies - 11217 views - 09/08/10 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
