Questions tagged [windows-phone-7]
Windows Phone is an operating system for smartphones, developed by Microsoft, and successor to Windows Mobile.
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What is better to return from the DataService: Status or Exceptions?
I have a MVVM app with DataServices (using mvvmlight).
Right now, i'm using it like
var answer = await myDataService.PullList(categoryId);
if (answer.Status == Ok)
ObservableListOfItems....
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Optimising news fetching
I have a web scraper for scraping news from different sources in wp7. My current appraoch for doing this is:
load newspapers information from xml file.
go to the specified sections and fetch the urls ...
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Is abusing Application.UnhandledException for login redirection okay?
I'm programming a windows phone 7 app which needs authentication for news-like read access.
I use Application.UnhandledException to handle (my) AuthFailedException, which can be thrown from any page, ...
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How is developing apps for Windows Phone 8 is different from Windows Phone 7.x?
What has changed with regards to the design patterns? Do both use the same development techniques? If I'm faced with the option of learning Windows Phone 7 vs Windows Phone 8 will learning windows ...
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Microsoft Dev Centre accounts [closed]
Looks like Microsoft is offering a special offer of 95% of the yearly subscription for the Phone Dev Centre (I didn't say anything about desperate).
What I was wondering is do you need a seperate ...
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Can I release complementary Windows 8 and WP8 apps on their respective stores?
I am creating a pair of apps, one to run preferably on tablets, but also laptops and PCs, and the other for WP8.
These apps are complementary - having one is of no use without the other.
I know ...
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Can each mobile app have its own client account for payments? (Windows Phone, Android and iPhone)
My company has many clients wanting mobile applications and having the payments come into our account and then sorting the payments would be a real pain.
So can a company have a main account to ...
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Passing the data of a certain page to another page. Windows Phone 7
The user will fill out information in page 1, and the data will be seen in the other page listed in a listbox.
Is it advisable to use data binding?
I've been studying/researching about data binding ...
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Generic way of handling exceptions in windows phone? [closed]
I mean what are some of the ways other programmers deal with exception for example, when an error occurs when accessing a web service for say. If an example cant be given for windows phone, give the ...
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Best way of accessing data on different pages
I'm looking for a way to load data into properties/variables etc and have this information accessible to all the pages of my app.
I want the information to be loaded via a background thread to keep UI ...
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Understanding Data Binding for Windows Phone 7 [closed]
I want to develop a simple app for the Windows Phone 7 platform. It's basically a vocabulary based game that involves the user moving word tiles from one area to another to score points.
I want to ...
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Why don't mobile platforms support generational garbage collection?
Both Windows Phone/Xbox and Android lack support for generational garbage collection. This is frustrating for a lot of programmers. There seems to be a legitimate engineering reason to it, but I can't ...
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How can I best prepare for building Windows Phone 8 Apps
I'm interested in learning to develop for Windows Phone down the road a bit, and am mostly interested in developing Metro Apps for the Windows Phone. It seems like there is some basic info for Metro ...
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What's Microsoft's strategy on Windows CE development? [closed]
Lots of specialized mobile devices use Windows CE or Windows Mobile.
I'm not talking about smart phones here -- I know that Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft's current technology of choice here. I'm ...
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Windows Phone 7 app development - Is it worth it? [closed]
I've written a Windows Phone 7 application to display the Ordnance Survey maps that are loved so much in the UK (I am amazed that no-one else has done this yet). However I was about to shell out the £...
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