Category Archives: Mango
Fast Application Switching Made Easy
Mango From Scratch One of the key features in Mango is Fast Application Switching. This is a radical change to the life-cycle of applications, and one of the very first things you’ll want to do, when upgrading your Windows 7 … Continue reading
Send Toast Made Easy
Mango From Scratch In a follow up to yesterday’s article about Tile Notifications, let’s take a look at sending Toast Notifications. You’ll remember that we had two projects yesterday, SendTileServer and TilesNotificationClient. Today we’ll create SendToastServer and ToastNotificationsClient. The parallels … Continue reading
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Tile Notifications Made Easy
Mango From Scratch This posting is a rip-off. Specifically, I steal liberally from the MSDN documentation, but my goal is to mix together and distill a great deal of information down to the essentials to provide you with a clear … Continue reading
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Hey! Presto! You’re using IE9 on Mango
If you have upgraded to Mango, your browser is now IE9. The browser control has been engineered and tested for backwards compatibility, but if your Windows Phone 7 (pre-Mango) application uses the browser control and suddenly finds weirdness, please do … Continue reading
BingMapsTask in Mango
Mango From Scratch It turns out that launching Bing Maps, even with Search terms and setting the zoom level is absurdly easy, using the new BingMaps task. I used it to search for donuts in the Boston area (and came … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast Show 38–What’s New In Mango
Larry Lieberman, Product Manager – Windows Phone Team, who works on the Developer Platform joins us to discuss what’s new in Mango for Consumers and for Developers. Larry provides a vital overview of the newest features in Windows Phone. Listen … Continue reading
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Fast Switching and Page State in Mango
Mango From Scratch Mango introduces fast application switching. To implement this feature a new stage in the lifecycle has been added: Dormant. Applications are put in the dormant state when the user navigates forward, away from the application (e.g., using … Continue reading
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The Full Stack, Part 12: Adding photo support to our Windows Phone app – Capture, storage, and display
We walk through the code we used to add photo support to the WhoIsThat application, including: Using the Camera chooser Restoring application state after the photo is taken Decoding and displaying the image Storing and retrieving the image
Yet Another Podcast #37 Silverlight HTML5 & Developers Part 2
Part 2 of a conversation with Shawn Wildermuth, president of Agilitrain and author of the forthcoming book Essential Windows Phone 7 about Mix, Silverlight, Windows Phone, HTML5 and the state of .NET development Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading
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Secondary Tiles– Part 1: Creation
Mango From Scratch Tiles come in two flavors: Application Tiles and Secondary Tiles. The secondary tile is always created programmatically, typically based on an interaction with the user. Secondary tiles are often used to provide user-specific data such as the … Continue reading
Mango Announcement
Andy Lees today announced the Mango release, and the availability of the development tools. Read more here.
Managing the Back Stack
Mango From Scratch In a previous posting, I discussed creating Reminders. One little known feature of reminders is that you can click on the Reminder to return to the original application (the application in which you set the Reminder). For … Continue reading
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