Category Archives: Windows Phone

I have developed and published four Windows Phone applications up to date. Three of them are in Croatian, and the last one is in English. All of them are free. CroParkingIn Croatian. Simple application for paying parking in all towns in Croatia. Application uses geolocation to determine in which town you are located and offers […]

To make the long story short – it is not possible to access user’s Mobile Country Code from Windows Phone Application. Not even in Mango. There are two places where MCC is used on a mobile phone. It is part of a International Mobile Subscriber Identiti (IMSI) and it is stored on SIM Card. It […]

I’ve just submitted a Mango app to the Marketplace. Of course, it is not available yet, since it has to go through the certification process, but I believe it will do just fine, since it’s so simple. Basically, all it does is enable you to search your phone contacts (all of them, including Facebook) by […]

There are 62 different keyboard layouts supported in Windows Phone. They’re enabling a great user experience for a user, but it’s really hard to choose the best one for a developer. So I’ve prepared an overview of all available input scopes. First screen shows default one, and the second screen shows a view that user […]

Several days ago my CroParking app finally reached the Marketplace and become the first WP7 app in Croatian language. Here is the description: “Simple application for paying parking in all towns in Croatia. Application uses geolocation to determine in which town you are located and offers only available zones. You can save as many cars […]

Puja Pramudya from Microsoft Innovation Center in Indonesia has written a e-book about Windows Phone application development. To tell you the truth, I haven’t read it (yet), but it seems quite good, especially for the beginners. Be aware – this is not one of that 20-page e-books, it has more than 150 pages and at […]

Aww, what a title. It’s quite simple, actually. The first thing I’ve done when I got my first WP7 device was testing it’s accelerometer. As you may know, accelerometer cannot be used in emulator (actually, there is a way, but that’s not it – I want to move some hardware around the air and rotating […]

Last week I attended a (great) conference Mobility Day and organizers asked me to build a small Silverlight application for prize giveaway at the end of the day. Every participant had a number at the back of their ID card and if the wheel stopped at your number, the prize was yours. Application itself is […]

It is not like you have a real device in your hand, but you can get some look and feel of Windows Phone using an emulator. If you have touchscreen monitor, your experience will be much better, but that’s not a requirement. You don’t need anything else installed on your system, not even Visual Studio […]

You’ve developed your first Windows Phone 7 application and you want to share it with your friends or colleagues? Just follow this simple steps: Copy all files from “BinRelease” folder of your project. Move it to target machine. Have the Windows Phone 7 SDK installed on target machine (comes with Developer Tools) Open “XapDeploy.exe” in […]