Get to Mango
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Windows Phone 7.5 brings dozens of new platform features to Windows Phone. If you've previously built an application for Windows Phone, you are likely asking yourself, "how do I take advantage of all these cool new features in my existing Windows Phone application?" Well, this series will answer that question for you! In each screencast, expert ninja developer DJ AlexG will walk you through step by step, how you would transition an existing application to leverage the new features.
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15 minutes, 4 secondsGet to Mango #7 - Using Push Notifications with Secondary Tiles and Deep ToastOct 13, 2011 at 1:18 PM
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CODE SAMPLE for this VIDEO In Windows Phone 7.5, we've provided you with two new powerful constructs: the ability to add secondary tiles to you applications, and the ability to have your application appropriately respond to launch parameters to deliver the end user to a specific location within… -
16 minutes, 21 secondsGet to Windows Phone Mango #1: From XNA to SLXNAAug 30, 2011 at 9:55 AM 2
Code for this project Do you have an existing application or game that you want to bring to Windows Phone Mango? This is a new series of videos where we'll show you exactly how to do that, step by step. Our first video is about taking an existing XNA game, and modifying it to leverage our new… -
14 minutes, 3 secondsGet to Mango #3: Adding FAS to a Typical Silverlight ApplicationSep 20, 2011 at 5:46 PM 0
CODE SAMPLE for this VIDEO Fast Application Switching is perhaps the most exciting developer feature in Windows Phone Mango. With FAS, applications stay in memory after deactivation, which makes resuming the application nearly instantaneous, greatly improving the end user experience. All you need to… -
12 minutes, 58 secondsGet to Mango #9 - Background AudioDec 14, 2011 at 12:03 PM 0
CODE SAMPLE for this VIDEO Background audio is a super cool new feature of Windows Phone 7.5, which enables developers to write applications that stream music, even when the primary application is not running. In this video, we detail how to take a WP 7 music application, and modify it to leverage… -
16 minutes, 45 secondsGet to Mango #4: Adding Secondary TilesOct 06, 2011 at 12:58 PM 0
CODE SAMPLE for this VIDEO Live tiles are one of the most compelling features of Windows Phone. Now in Windows Phone 7.5, we have support for 'secondary' live tiles. This means that your application can enable the user to configure more than one live tile for your application. This is extremely… -
16 minutes, 19 secondsGet to Mango #5: Adding a Background AgentOct 07, 2011 at 12:46 PM 0
CODE SAMPLE for this VIDEO Background Agents are a new feature in Windows Phone 7.5, that a developer can use to empower their application to run code in the 'background' regardless of whether or not the application is running. This is a radical development. Applications on Windows Phone can now… -
11 minutes, 45 secondsGet to Mango #6 - Using a Live Camera FeedOct 13, 2011 at 12:49 PM 0
CODE SAMPLE for this VIDEO One of the amazingly cool new developer features of Windows Phone 7.5, is the ability for developers to leverage the direct camera video stream within the context of their applications. In this video our friend Alex is back to show you how to implement this in your… -
16 minutes, 37 secondsGet to Windows Phone Mango #2: Adding FAS to XNASep 12, 2011 at 9:48 AM 1
Code for this project This is the second in a series of videos that will detail how to add Windows Phone Mango functionality to an existing Windows Phone application, step by step. In our first sample, we modified an existing XNA game to leverage the new Silverlight / XNA integration available in… -
19 minutes, 22 secondsGet to Mango #8 - Using a Local DatabaseDec 14, 2011 at 11:28 AM 0
CODE SAMPLE for this VIDEO Windows Phone 7.5 provides you the ability to leverage a complete SQL CE database in your application. The purpose of this video is to show you how you might take an existing application that would benefit from a database, and modify it to take advantage of one. Databases…
