Collision Detection on Windows Phone 7
If you're using Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 for casual games development, performing a HitTest to determine if two elements collide is a basic need. I've blogged about how to do this in desktop...
View ArticleTalking Ragdoll for Windows Phone 7
One of the suggestions I repeatedly heard for Boss Launch 2: Zombie Attack was the ability to customize the head for the Boss, so that you could stick your own bosss head on the unlucky projectile. As...
View ArticleBoss Launch 2: Zombie Attack for WP7
This is the much-awaited sequel to Boss Launch , titled Boss Launch 2: Zombie Attack - in which you use your (normally useless) boss to take out a Zombie horde as you progress through many challenging...
View ArticleExercise A: Creating Windows Phone Applications with VS 2010
In this exercise, you will create, test, deploy and run your first Hello World Silverlight for Windows Phone application. You will learn how to use the Windows Phone Developer Tools including the free...
View ArticleExercise B: Creating Windows Phone Applications with VS 2010
In the XAML markup generated by the default Windows Phone application template, locate the Grid container element named LayoutRoot. Its purpose is to arrange the elements on the page. Inside its...
View ArticleExercise C: Creating Windows Phone Applications with VS 2010
Press F5 to build and deploy the application to the Windows Phone Emulator and start the debugging session. Wait for the application to launch and display its main page. Note: If you kept the emulator...
View ArticleDroppyPop for WP7 Update
Yes it's a little early to be thinking about the Holidays, but with the final release of the Windows Phone 7 tools imminent, we can bet that shiny new WP7 devices will be in many stockings this year....
View ArticleWP7 Back Button in Games
5.2.4 Use of Back Button in Games a. Pressing the Back button from the first screen of a game must exit the application. b. During gameplay, pressing the Back button in games must present an in-game...
View ArticlePhysics Games in Silverlight on Windows Phone 7
The Physics Helper Library now supports Windows Phone Development ! [ DOWNLOAD PHYSICS HELPER ] [ SEE A TEASER ] [ DOWNLOAD SAMPLE PHONE PROJECT ] * UPDATE 05/17/10: Fixed for April Refresh of WP7...
View ArticleWindows Phone Marketplace payouts coming in January, reporti
It has been very humbling to see the developer excitement and all of the great new apps coming to Marketplace every day. As I sit here and type this, over 18,000 registered developers have signed up...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 For Silverlight Developers: Life Cycle
Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Developers: Life Cycle, Windows Phone 7应用开发生命周期。
View ArticleReady for take-off? Top 10 things to check when you think yo
转载于 , By Alfred Astort. Creating a new mobile platform has been an amazing ride, is not often that one has the opportunity to create and define a totally new experience from the ground up, especially...
View ArticleAn HTTP POST client for Windows Phone 7
Silverlight and Silverlight for Windows Phone offer a great way of simplifying HTTP GET requsts: WebClient class. WebClient encapsulates the primary logic of HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse classes...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7获取Email,地址和电话号码
Windows Phone Mango now has new tasks to obtain additional information from the contacts list, such as the users email address, snail-mail address and phone number.
View ArticleDevExpress controls for WPF load time
When i use DevExpress controls for WPF-load time of the window on which they are declared-increases. But on second access-it loads fast. Isnt there a way to preload all of needed dll/themes on program...
View ArticleHow to detect when a list is scrolling (or not)
One of the UI features of lists on Windows Phone 7 is that the scroll bars don't really act like traditional scroll bars; they are non-interactive and they only appear when the list is actually...
View ArticleUsing ChildWindow in Windows Phone 7 Projects
was following a conversation in Twitter about the use of MessageBox in a WP7 application. I hate MessageBox as it usually looks nothing like the rest of my app. If figured I should try it first and the...
View ArticleMVVM Light Toolkit Patch for Windows Phone 7 Mango Beta
in Programming / MVVM Light Toolkit For more information about the toolkit in general, please refer to the Get Started page on my website. On Tuesday the 24th of May 2011, the new version of the...
View ArticleCalling JavaScript Functions in Windows Phone 7
Today were hosting one of our Windows Phone 7 deployment labs and Ive been spending some time with a partner trying to determine if theyll be able to do what they need to do on a Windows Phone 7...
View ArticleUsing commands with ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBa
Unfortunately, in the current version of the Windows Phone 7 Silverlight framework, it is not possible to attach any command on the ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton controls. These two...
View Article
