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Property Finder - a Cross-Platform HTML5 Mobile App

by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of a cross-platform HTML5 application for Windows Phone and iPhone.

Azure Animal Adoption Agent and Lost & Found

by roscler

Azure based pet adoption agent that helps pet lovers find the perfect pet while saving the lives of kittens & puppies

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

Port a 2D libgdx game to MonoGame

by Giannakakis Kostas

Port your libgdx games to run in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms

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Azure Animal Adoption Agent and Lost & Found

by roscler

Azure based pet adoption agent that helps pet lovers find the perfect pet while saving the lives of kittens & puppies

Extendable TCP Client/Server Application Framework

by Michael Janulaitis

Provides an introduction to the open source client/server DotNetOpenServer SDK project for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows, Mac and Java Platforms

Math Function Tutor: Part 1

by charles922

Math Function Tutor - Part 1

Asynchronous Image Download with Abort-on-Timeout for WP7

by Dan Colasanti

AutoResetEvent can be used in place of AsyncWaitHandle and provides a thread-blocking WaitOne signaled timeout function, which can be put on a background thread in order to not block the main UI thread.

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(Memory and Resource) Leak Detection for WinCE

23 May 2012 by Sergeant Kolja

This is an alternative for "Memory leak detection for WinCE".

3 Ways to Update the Application Tile Content in Mango

31 Aug 2011 by mbcrump

A look at how to update the Application Tile Information in Windows Phone 7 Mango

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3D Basics Using XNA for Windows 8 Store Apps and Windows Phone Apps

27 Feb 2013 by MetaMapper (Andy Powell)

How to program hardware accelerated 3D graphics for Windows 8 Store apps and Windows Phone apps using XNA.

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3D Graphics for Windows Phone 7 Using the XNA Framework

2 Apr 2011 by vankaandreev

Learn how to use 3D graphics and effects for Windows Phone 7.

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A "little snake" leads us through the most important features of the Windows Phone 7

29 Jan 2011 by 69Icaro

Analyzing the Snake game, we'll study an application for the new Windows Phone 7 platform, focusing on localization, Inversion of Control, navigation, transition effects, triggers, Isolated Storage, audio and we'll also use Blend to create a rounded glowing button, and other things...

Windows-Phone-7

A Better Way to Share Image Assets in Xamarin Forms

13 Nov 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Learn how to combine T4 and a custom markup extension to share and consume image files between projects.

A Gesture-Driven Windows Phone To-Do List

6 Sep 2012 by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of a Windows Phone to-do list application that eschews buttons and checkboxes in favour of gestures.

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A Windows Phone 7 App from the Ground Up

21 Dec 2010 by Don Kackman

Building a WP7 browser app for last.fm

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Accelerometer Support on WP7 Emulator

20 Dec 2010 by maciekgrabek

The Windows Phone 7 emulator doesn't support accelerometer. This project will help you to test accelerometer enabled applications on the Windows Phone 7 emulator!

Windows-Phone-7

Add Multiple Pushpins to Map in a Customized Way on Windows Phone 8

3 Oct 2013 by NitinShrivastava

In this tip, we will discuss a quick way of how to locate a point in the Map and then adding a customized pushpin to these locations through a sample XML.

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Adding Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solutions

22 Mar 2011 by mbcrump

Easy way to add Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solutions

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All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

17 Dec 2014 by Simon Jackson

All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

AMF: Asp.net Mobile Framework

11 Aug 2011 by ymartel

Asp.net framework for making web application for most-used tablet and smartphone web browsers based on JQuery mobile

An XNA Animated Sprite Component for Windows Phone, PC, and Xbox

10 Jul 2011 by Joel Ivory Johnson

A proof of concept for an animated sprite component that I am developing to run in XNA projects on Windows Phone, PC, and Xbox. The component allows animation information to be a part of the project's content and is a step in the direction of allowing an artist to be completely over creating animati

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Angular in a Cordova

23 Jul 2015 by Siddharth Chandra

How to use Angular in a Cordova Environment and its impact

Animating single bones in a Blender 3D model with XNA

24 Jul 2011 by Alan Boldock

Many available demonstrations and tutorials demonstrate how to play an animation generated in a 3D application. This tutorial demonstrates how to manipulate a 3D model using only the code to find and manipulate Bones within a simple 3D model generated in Blender.

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Apex Part 1: Create Your First MVVM Application

21 May 2012 by Dave Kerr

Write your first MVVM application in ten minutes using the Apex SDK!

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Apex Part 2: Adding Commands to an MVVM Application

21 May 2012 by Dave Kerr

Learn how to add Commands to your MVVM application to add functionality without breaking the separation of View and ViewModel.

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Apply Here Map in Windows Phone HTML5 Apps

4 Dec 2013 by Khademul Basher

Add Nokia Here Map in Windows Phone HTML5 Apps

Windows-Phone-7

Arabic Controls in Window phone 7

12 May 2012 by emranallan

Make your Application windows phone 7 support for Bi-Directional right to left

Windows-Phone-7

ASP.NET C# Tutorial - Development with Nido Framework for Dummies

13 Nov 2014 by Nirosh

This tutorial is designed for .NET programmers who need to understand ‘Nido’ framework and its application.

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Attached VM Behaviours

23 Mar 2015 by Sacha Barber

Showcase of how to use a sort of Attached Behaviours for ViewModels, and how to build BIG XAML apps

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Attaching a Command to the WP7 Application Bar

22 Feb 2011 by mbcrump

This article describes how to attach a command to the Windows Phone 7 Application Bar.

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Augmented reality - XNA Models

23 Aug 2012 by Harald Heide Gundersen

Geocoordinate positioned Xna model viewable thru Photocamera

Automatic Generation of Settings Page

6 Sep 2011 by EmitsorGrp

Automatically generate a Windows Phone 7 settings page.

Azure Animal Adoption Agent and Lost & Found

7 Oct 2020 by roscler

Azure based pet adoption agent that helps pet lovers find the perfect pet while saving the lives of kittens & puppies

Windows-Phone-7

Back Button in XNA

7 May 2013 by zoyobar

I will explore and learn XNA for Windows Phone with you.

Windows-Phone-7

Benchmarking the Performance of Embedded DB for .NET: SQL CE 4.0 vs SQLite

3 Jul 2011 by Alexander Galkin

Provides a sample code for a simple test bench application and compares the performance of two most common embedded databases for .NET: Microsoft SQL CE 4.0 and SQLite.

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Benefits of using Telerik “RadDataBoundListBox” in Windows Phone Application

20 Sep 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Today in this post, we will jumpstart with the RadDataBoundListBox and see the benefits of using it in our Windows Phone applications.

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Bike In City with Windows Phone 7

5 Jan 2011 by hoonzis

Learn how to build a small mobile application to visualize data from the city bike sharing system. Get the nearest stations, find the number of free bikes, and compute directions to other stations.

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Binary Serialization to Isolated Storage in Silverlight - BinaryFormatter vs. sharpSerializer

6 Oct 2010 by Pawel idzikowski

How to serialize binary data to IsolatedStorage in a Silverlight client when there is no BinaryFormatter in Silverlight? Why not with sharpSerializer? - An open source XML and binary serializer for .NET and Silverlight

Blue Hour

22 Apr 2012 by Patrick Kalkman

This article describes the development of Blue Hour, a windows phone 7 application that calculates when the sunrises and sunsets at your location.

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BounceBall - XNA Farseer Magic

12 Apr 2011 by Vinit Yadav

In this article we are going to develop a game using Farseer Physics Engine and XNA for Windows Phone 7. This article provides you base for your games to make game development easy and fast.

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Bubble Wrap App: Put Your Scores to the Cloud

15 Dec 2010 by Evgeny Vinnik

A simple workaround for Windows Phone 7 apps to work with SQL Azure directly.

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Build Puzzle 15 - Walkthrough

23 Feb 2012 by Shai Raiten

How to Build Puzzle 15 (n-Puzzle)

Windows-Phone-7

Building a Puzzle Game with Xamarin Forms

25 Nov 2016 by Daniel Vaughan

A fun Xamarin Forms implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating how to port a UWP puzzle game to both Android and iOS while sharing nearly all code across platforms.

Building Localizable Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin Forms and Calcium

2 Oct 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Leverage existing .resx files to localize Windows Phone, Android, and iOS apps in Xamarin.Forms.

Caliburn Micro for Windows Phone 7

20 Apr 2011 by mega_me

Convention-over-configuration MVVM in the Windows Phone 7 world.

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Catel - Part 0 of n: Why choose Catel?

3 Nov 2014 by Geert van Horrik

This article tries to explain why you should use Catel as the (or one of the) frameworks when developing WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications.

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Catel - Part 6 of n: Bing Maps application for WP7

25 May 2011 by Geert van Horrik

Using Catel as an MVVM framework on Windows Phone 7.

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Catel - Part 8 of n: WP7 Mango and Unit Testing the Camera

2 Sep 2011 by Geert van Horrik

This article is about Windows Phone 7 Mango and unit testing the camera

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Clearer – A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application

9 Oct 2012 by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes my experiences of porting a novel gesture-driven Windows Phone app to Windows 8.

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Clearing Cookies on Windows Phone 7 or How to Log Out of Facebook

25 Oct 2010 by Derek Lakin

An application for Windows Phone 7 that integrates with Facebook

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Code Project Posts Analyzer for Windows Phone 7

23 Jan 2011 by Nish Nishant

This is a WP7 application that will analyze your most recent posts and give you summarized statistics on your forum wide posting split up.

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Comic Reader for WP7

30 Nov 2010 by anshulskywalker

Introduction to building a simple Windows phone 7 application that reads and stores comic feeds in WP7

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Consume Console Host WCF Service with Windows Phone 7

18 Apr 2011 by D Y Chan

Consume WCF service with Windows Phone 7

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CP Vanity for Windows Phone 7

17 Jan 2013 by Don Kackman

A WP7 port of CPVanity with a CodeProject RSS reader.

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Create Your Own WP7 Deployment Application

25 Jul 2011 by Shai Raiten

How to create your own WP7 deployment application

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Creating a Cross-Platform Application Bar for Xamarin Forms with Calcium

7 Oct 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Using Xamarin Forms platform specific rendering to create a cross-platform application bar.

Creating a Subtitle/Closed Captions Plugin for SMF (Silverlight Media Framework)

20 Sep 2011 by Julien Villers

This will walk you through the creation of a custom IMarkerProvider implementation, allowing to display SAMI subtitles in SMF (Silverlight Media Framework).

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Currency Converter For Windows Phone 7

15 Nov 2010 by Sanchal Kunnel

A simple currency converter app for the Windows Phone 7 using a web Service

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Custom Gauge Controls for Windows Phone 7: Part I

25 Feb 2013 by Florin Badea

The first article in this series presents the implementation considerations and the way to use some custom gauges in WP7.

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Custom Gauge Controls for Windows Phone 7: Part II

25 Feb 2013 by Florin Badea

This article is the second in the series that describes a set of gauge controls for WP7.

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Custom Gauge Controls for Windows Phone 7: Part III

25 Feb 2013 by Florin Badea

This article is the third in the series that describes a set of gauge controls for WP7. This article focuses on the implementation of the indicators used with the gauges.

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D3.js crash course - Part2

27 Dec 2013 by Espen Harlinn

D3.js meets jQuery Mobile, WCF & ASP.Net

Design a Simple Windows Phone 7 App

2 Nov 2010 by Resco Developer Tools

Learn how to build a typical List/Detail application for Windows Phone 7. The article presents simple customer list editor making use of various data editors — all built with the help of MobileLight Toolkit from Resco.

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Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control

18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of a Windows Phone 7 Jump List control, giving a step-by-step account of the control's development (and a pretty flashy control to use at the end of it!).

Windows-Phone-7

Enterprise Application Architecture: Designing Applications and Services in .NET - Part I

27 Sep 2010 by venugopalm

A guided tour of the distributed enterprise application design in .NET

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ExifLib - A Fast Exif Data Extractor for .NET 2.0+

17 Aug 2015 by Simon M^cKenzie

Reads JPEG Exif data without the heavyweight and unnecessary instantiation of GDI+ objects.

Exposing asynchronous features to client code: Windows Phone 7

16 Jan 2011 by Nikos Baxevanis

How to use types implementing the IAsyncResult interface on Windows Phone 7.

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Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)

23 Jul 2014 by Saad_Mahmood

Expression Blend - Playing with Sample Data (WPF , Windows Phone)

Extendable TCP Client/Server Application Framework

4 May 2019 by Michael Janulaitis

Provides an introduction to the open source client/server DotNetOpenServer SDK project for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows, Mac and Java Platforms

Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango

3 Sep 2011 by mbcrump

A look at how to extract a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in Windows Phone 7 Mango

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Eye of the Drone

17 Feb 2015 by apmyhr

Turn your smartphone into the Eyes and Ears of your Quadcopter drone.

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Fighter Space Ship Game

23 Oct 2012 by sandeepkumar.sgnr

As the name suggests, you will be driving a space ship in galaxy and protecting yourself from meteors. Now to show ultrabook capability with the game I will be using touch and accelerometer.

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FileDb - A Simple NoSql Database for Silverlight, Windows Phone and .NET

9 Nov 2011 by Brett Goodman

How to use FileDb as a local database in your .NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone applications

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Full Power on the Phone

27 May 2014 by KarstenK

Emporing C++ on the Windows Phone 8.0

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Funky WPF - Enumerations and Combo Boxes

18 Jan 2012 by Dave Kerr

The quickest, easiest, and funkiest way to bind enumerations to a combo box in WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7.

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Get Automatic Pictures from Device and Upload to Web Server

14 Aug 2015 by Emiliano Musso

How to create a Windows Phone app to take timed pictures from camera, and upload them on an Apache webserver to view them remotely

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Google Maps for Windows Phone 7 using Bing Map Control

3 Feb 2011 by Naveed tejani

This article covers the way we could use Google Map using the Map Control shipped by Microsoft with Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools

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Google OAuth2 on Windows Phone

30 Jan 2012 by Don Kackman

An example of using Google APIs and OAuth2 authentication on Windows Phone 7

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Hangman - a simple word game for Windows Phone 7

5 Mar 2012 by Vivek Pandey (V)

Hangman is a very simple word game for Windows Phone 7

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Having Fun with Coding4Fun’s Windows Phone 7 Controls

11 Mar 2011 by mbcrump

A look at the new Windows Phone 7 controls by Coding4Fun

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Hello World Application in Windows Phone 7

15 Jan 2012 by rd.sandeep

Beginner's guide to writing applications for Windows Phone 7

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Horoscope Program in Windows Phone 7

4 Nov 2010 by João da Costa from Brazil

How to create a horoscope application in Windows Phone 7

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How to build a VoIP application for Windows Phone 7 that will not be blocked by the service providers

6 Feb 2014 by Bwalsh490

It describes how to develop a WP7 VoIP client application that communicates with a server through TCP/UDP protocol

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How to create HTML5 apps on Windows Phone with PhoneGap

15 Mar 2012 by David Rousset

How to create HTML5 apps on Windows Phone with PhoneGap

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How to Launch the WP7 Marketplace Hub using the MarketplaceHubTask?

7 Mar 2012 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

The MarketplaceHubTask API to launch the Windows Phone 7 Hub client in your phone device

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How to Load and Read Data from Local Storage in Windows Phone 8.1

8 Jun 2015 by Deb Kumar Ghosal

Windows Phone 8.1 RT Microsoft has introduced many new features and changes in the Windows Phone 8.1. Isolated Storage is one of the crucial features that has completely changed in Windows Phone 8.1.

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How to serialize data effectively? Custom serialization of Bitmap, Cursor, Icon, Font, and other objects without a default constructor with sharpSerializer

14 Aug 2011 by Pawel idzikowski

Is it better to serialize types without default constructor with Custom Serializer or a Substitute Pattern? Example of serialization of FontFamily into isolated storage in WP7.

How to use the IOC Container and MVVM with Phone7.Fx

7 Nov 2011 by Nicolas Humann

How to use the IOC Container and MVVM with Phone7.Fx

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How to Write Your Own Siri Application (Mobile Assistant Application)

29 Nov 2013 by Yildirim Kocdag

This article helps you to understand how you can write your own Siri application.

i2W: An iPhone Developer’s First Windows Phone 7 Application

14 Dec 2010 by Jesse Liberty

In this tutorial we will build a meaningful, and nontrivial Windows phone 7 application. This will give us the opportunity to explore layout controls, interactive controls, Visual Studio and a good bit more.

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Implementing Wizard Functionality for Windows Phone 7 Applications

5 Aug 2011 by Florin Badea

This article presents how to build a wizard for WP7 applications.

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Include static JS / CSS / Image Files from IsolatedStorage in WebBrowser Control

8 Aug 2012 by Nicolas Humann

Include static JS / CSS / image files from IsolatedStorage in the WebBrowser control

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Installing MoSync for Android (and other mobile platforms)

2 Aug 2014 by K Stock

Article #2: How to install the multi-mobile-platform MoSync development environment

Windows-Phone-7

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

15 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

Invasion Game in MonoGame for Windows Phone 8

5 Feb 2014 by Dan Colasanti

This article describes my experience porting Invasion from XNA/WP7 to MonoGame/WP8 and includes Invasion's complete source code.

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Invasion Game in XNA for Windows Phone 7

6 Jan 2012 by Dan Colasanti

This is a port of Invasion (originally posted on CodeProject by Mauricio Ritter) to Windows Phone 7 (with some enhancements).

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Invoking People Hub in Windows Phone 7 Emulator

26 Nov 2011 by Mohib Sheth

Invoking People Hub in Windows Phone 7 Emulator

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IoT Solution using Bluetooth Low Energy Sensors, Event Hub, Stream Analytics and MS Power BI

31 Mar 2015 by Onkarraj A., Rahul Khode

The article showcases BLE sensors (IoT) solution developed using Azure Event Hub, Stream Analytics and Power BI.

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IP Relay for Visual Studio Mobile Device Web Development

16 Mar 2011 by R%S

Enable access from mobile phone emulator to Visual Studio WebDev.WebServer listening on localhost

iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Animation and Games

14 Dec 2010 by Jesse Liberty

In this second part of the tutorial, we will describe how to wire up the MainPage.xaml.cs file and bring all of the objects in the Bird Hunt game together into a running application

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Jace.NET: Just Another Calculation Engine for .NET

18 Nov 2013 by PieterDeRycke

The technical architecture of Jace.NET, an OSS framework which I developed in my spare time.

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Journey of Windows 8 game (SkyWar) for Intel App Up using MonoGame Framework

8 Jan 2013 by sandeepkumar.sgnr

This article is all about my experience of developing a SkyWar game for CodeProject’s Intel AppUp competition.

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Leaderboard for Windows Phone 7 XNA Game

27 Feb 2012 by BillLange1968

Solution for creating a Leaderboard for a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) XNA game

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Localization in Windows Universal Apps

7 Jan 2015 by Pooja Baraskar

Making the App World-Ready by adapting it for a specific culture and language.

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Localizing Your Windows Phone 7 Application (Enums and Finished Project)

27 Aug 2011 by EmitsorGrp

Give language support to your Windows Phone 7 applications

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Locate the Urn Position on the Shelf

3 May 2013 by BigWCat

Be able located the urn from the shelf, which has 2000 slots.

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Magical MVVM in WindowsStore Apps Using Expression Blend

22 Jun 2014 by Saad_Mahmood

Magical MVVM using power of Expression Blend