by GregRJacobs | Apr 2, 2012 | CSharp, Featured, Languages, Platforms, Programming, Windows Phone 7, XAML
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...
by GregRJacobs | Mar 26, 2012 | CSharp, Featured, Languages, Platforms, Programming, Windows Phone 7, XAML
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...
by GregRJacobs | Mar 24, 2012 | CSharp, Featured, Languages, Platforms, Programming, Windows
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...
by GregRJacobs | Mar 19, 2012 | CSharp, Featured, Languages, Platforms, Programming, Windows Phone 7, XAML
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...
by GregRJacobs | Mar 12, 2012 | CSharp, Featured, Languages, Platforms, Programming, Windows Phone 7, XAML
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...
by GregRJacobs | Mar 5, 2012 | CSharp, Featured, Languages, Platforms, Programming, Windows Phone 7, XAML
In this tutorial we are going to revisit the concept and implementation of isolated storage as Microsoft has given us some cool new toys to play with in the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK. This tool is command line based and will allow us to peer into either an emulator or an...
