Apr 11, 2012

Well, it has finally come down to it, Windows Phone 7 “Mango” Development 201 is finally complete. This usually means that you can take a break, grab a coffee and possibly go outside for some fresh air. Binary Wasteland enjoys bringing you the latest and greatest in programming development tutorials. We strive to make these development tutorials as...

Apr 9, 2012

In this development tutorial series we are going to cover another new feature given to developers with the “Mango” SDK; Background Agents. Background agents give the ability for an application to run code in the background. This can be a reminder, toast notifications, or file transfers just to name a few. These background agents come in two flavors, either...

Apr 2, 2012

In this Windows Phone 7 Development article we are going to cover a very exciting and interesting concept; Push Notifications. We find these exciting and interesting for the pure fact that with one click of a button or a timed event, we can notify an number of users that have downloaded our app of whatever we like. The level of communication is limited only by...

Mar 26, 2012

In this windows phone 7 development 201 article we are going to cover live tiles. Live tiles have become a staple mark in the Windows Phone 7 OS arsenal as it distinguishes itself from the rest of the competition. In addition, it also gives developers a little more real-estate when it comes to getting pertinent information to the end user. This information...

Mar 24, 2012

It has been some time since we have posted some code so we decided that we wanted the ability to search any folder we wanted for Office documents and return specific information. This information could be anything from the Author of the document to the number of pages total. This could be readily useful for anyone looking to see how many documents are actually...

Mar 19, 2012

In this tutorial article for Windows Phone 7 “Mango” Development we are touching on yet another important feature for developers to jump on board with; Fast App Switching. This feature is highly regarded as one of the easiest and better features to first implement in either old applications or ones you are starting from scratch. Essentially, the...

Mar 12, 2012

In this Mango development tutorial we are going to explore a new SDK feature; local database storage. This was not available to us in the pre-mango SDK hence the tutorial on how to use Isolated Storage. Isolated Storage worked for storage purposes when we had no local database and using web services were out of the question. Now that this sweet Mango treat has...