Videos tagged with Windows Phone 7

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to read and write data to Isolated Storage for Silverlight on the Windows Phone 7 platform.Since the WP7 platform does not have a built in RDMS system you must utilized Isolated Storage in order to persist data between runs. We will look at how to both read and write data using 2 different techniques in this episode.

In this episode we are going to take a look at how the phone uses themes and styles. We will focus on how to determine which theme is being used as well as learning how to swap out our resource files which are used by our application based on the active theme. Knowing which theme is in use will allow your application to better conform to either the light or dark user experience.

In this episode we are going to take a look at store data in Isolated Storage on the phoneStoring data in Isolated Storage on the phone is critical because there is no sql database which can run on the phone at this point. In this episode we will look at how we can store and retrieve data to storage on the phone.

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to handle tombstoning (when your application is not longer in focus, but is not shut down yet) in your WP7 application.When building out a WP7 application it is critical that your application can handle Tombstoning and rebuild itself as needed. This is to allow the user to have their work flow interrupted by an action, but still gives them the ...

In this episode we are going to continue taking a look at the Windows Phone 7 Api.In this episode we are going to focus on learning about the various ways you can navigate from page to page within your application. Because WP7 is based off of Silverlight 3.x you are able to utilize all the native silverlight navigation techniques such as static routing (hard wiring the .xaml path), using routes...

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to create the Application Bar for Windows Phone 7When creating an application with Win Phone 7 you may need to create an application bar which contains menus or icons. In this episode we will show you how to create both global app bars as well as local app bars.

In this episode we are going to take a first look at Windows Phone 7 Development.In this episode we will walk through creating a simple hello world application as well as give a quick tour of how to use the emulator.