Matthias Shapiro
Windows Phone technical evangelist, blogger, author, app developer, information visualist... no, um, visualizer? Visualizationer? I make purty charts.
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Part 30 - Series ConclusionLet me congratulate you on making it all the way through this series. Think about how far you've come in such a short amount of time! It takes a high degree of commitment to work your way through 10 hours of content, but you did it, and you definitely have what it takes to see a project through to the...
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Part 29 - Exercise: The Map Notes AppDownload the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/
In this final lesson, we’ll build the MapNotes app. It is a GPS-aware note app that records not just the note you take but also where you took that note and displays it on a map. Then you’ll be able to read that...
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Part 28 - Working with Animations in XAMLDownload the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/
In this lesson we're going to talk about animation. To be clear, what we really do is change properties of the controls on our pages over time. This could take the form of moving an element from one place to...
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Part 27 - Working with the Map Control and the Geolocation and GeoPosition ClassesDownload the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/
In this lesson, we're going to talk about the map control and talk about the GPS sensor inside of the device. Besides the specifics of the GPS sensor, the more general principles of working with the Phone's sensors apply...
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Part 26 - Exercise: The Daily Rituals AppDownload the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/
In this exercise we’ll build a project that combines many of the things we talked about previously into a single example. The Daily Rituals project is essentially it's a goal-tracking app. The idea is, for 30...
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Part 25 - Advanced Binding with Value ConvertersDownload the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/
The last piece of the puzzle we’ll need before building our next complete exercise app is to understand Value Converters. In short, sometimes you want to use data in your View Model that is not in the correct...
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Part 24 - Binding to Commands and CommandParametersDownload the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/
We’ve already discussed several facets of the Model-View-ViewModel design pattern, or rather MVVM. In this lesson I want to add one more piece to the puzzle so that we can employ it in our upcoming project.
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Part 23 - Working with the Command BarDownload the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/
In this short lesson we’ll learn about the CommandBar, another user interface element we can use on the Phone to provide more options in the form of icons and menu options to the user than what they see displayed by default....
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Part 22 - Storing and Retrieving Serialized DataDownload the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/
I want to continue to build on the knowledge we’ve already gained from building the I Love Cupcakes app. I want to focus on some slightly more advanced ideas so that we can create an even more advanced app. ...
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Part 21 - Exercise: I Love Cupcakes AppDownload the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/
In this exercise, I want to build an entire app based on the lessons we have learned about the Hub App project template. I want to show you how easy it is to transform that default Hub App project template into something...
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Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (12) Maps, Geolocation, and Geofencing
Sep 30, 2014 at 4:08 PM@Faisal Jamil: The details of your lat/long make it sound like you are running it inside the emulator instead of on the device. If you open up the emulator options, you should be able to change the emulated lat/long using the map control that is a part of the emulator tools.
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (04) Lists and Lists Items in Windows Runtime Apps
Sep 08, 2014 at 9:07 AM@Sasa: Because of the complex nature of the ListView, it uses a ListViewItemPresenter control in the ItemContainerStyle. This controlt has a LOT of brushes attached to it. If you change the SelectedBackground and SelectedPointerOverBackground, that should change the background of the item when it is selected.
I don't currently see an easy way to remove the tilt, sorry.
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (04) Lists and Lists Items in Windows Runtime Apps
Aug 12, 2014 at 2:05 PM@become90:All the code for these projects is available here
https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=b36de4dd5a9179a1&id=B36DE4DD5A9179A1%2193175&ithint=folder,.zip&authkey=!APluMWf01e3WvqA
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (04) Lists and Lists Items in Windows Runtime Apps
Aug 12, 2014 at 2:04 PM@Sushma,
My recommendation for panning and zooming a video would be to either
1) Put the video into a Scrollviewer and see if that does it
2) Use the Player Framework media player (http://playerframework.codeplex.com/) an enormously flexible media player that works on all recent versions of Windows and Windows Phone.
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (04) Lists and Lists Items in Windows Runtime Apps
Jun 06, 2014 at 8:31 AM@dubem: Without knowing the details of your solution, my guess is that you would actually want to keep all of your items in a "AllItems" collection in your ViewModel and bind your ListView or GridView to a "SearchResultsItems" for the ItemsSource. You could then add or remove the items from that second ObservableCollection in your ViewModel rather than try to do the add-remove within the control.
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (04) Lists and Lists Items in Windows Runtime Apps
Jun 06, 2014 at 8:26 AMarko,
What I normally do for design-time visuals is create a set of static data that I plan to use at design time and use the "d" designation. Example:
First add the d xml namespace:
Then set d to be ignored on runtime:
Then set your design time DataContext in the XAML with the d prefix
d:DataContext="{Binding MyDesignViewModel}"\With that, you can use a simple list of lists for design purposes and you won't have to use the CollectionViewSource.
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (09) Data Storage, Backup, and Roaming
May 26, 2014 at 9:28 PMMattCro,
What kinds demos would you have preferred to see? Where did you feel like we missed the mark?
Microsoft has hundreds of demos available for learning Windows Phone 8.1 and if these didn't help you with what you're looking for, maybe I can point you toward some that will help.
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (12) Maps, Geolocation, and Geofencing
May 15, 2014 at 3:35 PMAll sample code for these projects is located here.
Look for the file labeled "Session 12 Demos"
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (14) Tiles, Notifications, and Action Center
May 10, 2014 at 10:34 AMSource for all the demos can be found here.
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (20) Tooling and Diagnostics
May 10, 2014 at 10:33 AMarko,
We don't do automated name localization due to the fact that naming is highly brand centric. However, if the app name needs to be localized, you can put the name in the application resources and run it through the Multilingual App Toolkit and use the localized results to reserve those additional names.
We have a great video on the Multilingual App Toolkit on Inside Windows Phone http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Inside+Windows+Phone/IWP65-Localization-Made-Easy-with-Multilingual-App-Toolkit
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