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About Cloud - Windows Phone 7 Application to keep Updated
Over a period of time I was thinking of Building one Application for Community. It took sometime for...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 02/07/2012
Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit Updated
What else could be better than the new and updated version of Windows Phone 7.5 training kit. Now...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 12/21/2011
Windows Phone 7 Application bar Icon is not showing in Emulator
I have developed an application with Application Bar in Windows Phone 7. I have used the icon from...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 12/16/2011
Every Share Point 2010 is OData Server
If you have a SharePoint 2010 site you can get all the data stored within it as OData Feed. Like I...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 11/22/2011
How to connect to Hosted TFS using Visual Studio 2010
You can connect to hosted TFS (Team Foundation Server) from Visual Studio 2010. But to do that you...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 11/16/2011
Azure OData and Windows Phone 7
In this post I am planning to cover the topic where we will be exposing data in SQL Azure using WCF...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 11/05/2011
Windows Phone Mango Development Jump Start available at Channel 9
Learn development in Windows Phone Mango with Rob Miles and Andy Wigley 1. Mango Jump Start (01):...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 09/07/2011
Windows Phone : Using Accelerometer in Emulator
If you are building application which is dependent on Accelerometer, then the Emulator allows you to...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 09/02/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Choosing Photo from your Phone
You may choose photo from your phone through the application PhotoChooserTask MyPhotoChooser = new...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/23/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Sending SMS from your application
Sending SMS from application is as simple as below SmsComposeTask MySMS = new SmsComposeTask();...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/23/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Choosing Email Application to send email
You may choose email application to send an email from your phone. EmailComposeTask MyEmailComposer...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/23/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Choosing Email address from the list
If you are composing a text and wanted to send it to the people listed in your contact you can...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/23/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Calling a Number from Application
Here is how we can launch the in-built phone and call a number specified by us. PhoneCallTask...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/23/2011
Partner Event : Windows Phone 7 Mango - Platform Overview for Application Development
I am happy to announce the upcoming event for Microsoft MPN Partner on Windows Phone 7 Mango -...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/23/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Invoke Bing Search
If you let people quickly open Bing search with the selected word while navigating your application...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/09/2011
Windows Azure Free Whitepapers Updated
Introducing the Windows Azure Platform Architecting Applications to Use Windows Azure AppFabric...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/08/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Open URL in IE9 from Application
Launching browser from your Phone application is often required. The common term could be “Shell”...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/06/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Using Local Database for Application
Windows Phone uses concept of Local Database and by implementing LINQ to SQL you can create 100%...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/01/2011
Windows Phone 7 : How to change Startup Page
Windows Phone 7 Silverlight project generally starts by opening MainPage.xaml. How to change this?...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/31/2011
Windows Phone 7 : IsolatedStorage Save and Read Data to a File
Windows Phone 7 apps runs in an isolated environment and often application needs store and retrieve...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/31/2011
Windows Phone 7 : How to play media
Windows Phone 7 can flawlessly play media files. There are list of supported codec which Windows...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/29/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Reading Twitter Timeline
This one is similar to my previous post on Reading RSS. But useful in Phone App. So you need the...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/28/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Checking Network Connections before Downloading
Not every user will use unlimited data connections. So as a good application developer you should...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/27/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Building Simple RSS Reader
Here we will build simple RSS reader in Windows Phone. Reading RSS is reading XML file online. So...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/27/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Handling Hardware Back Button
Often user presses hardware back button while inside an application. This would send the existing...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/24/2011
Windows Phone 7 - Binding Data to ListBox through Code
In Windows Phone 7 we need to display data programmatically. Below one demonstrates the simply way...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/24/2011
Windows Phone 7 : How to Vibrate Phone
Below is how you can vibrate the phone programmatically. Duration should be positive or less than 5....
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/24/2011
Windows Phone 7 : How to get Phone and Application memory information
If you want to get the memory information of your phone and application //Total Phone Memory (in...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/24/2011
Windows Phone 7 : How to get the manufacturer name
Below is how you can get the device manufacturer name. //Device Manufacturer var manufacturer =...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/24/2011
Windows Phone 7 : How to get the device name
Below is how you can retrieve the phone name. //Phone Name var PhoneName =...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/24/2011
Windows Phone 7 : Check the power status
You might need to check if your phone is connected to power or running in battery. //Check Power...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/24/2011
Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles Released
Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Role released recently. Please check...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/12/2011
Channel 9 Video on Entity Framework 4.1
Published the video on ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 Code First Development video. This covers...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/08/2011
Cost of My Windows Azure Application : Pricing Calculator
Often question comes to our mind “how to determine the cost of Azure application”. Now the pricing...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/24/2011
Code First EF 4.1 : Table per Hierarchy
Concept of Table Per Hierarchy (TPH) is to implement polymorphism and to de-normalize the relational...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/16/2011
Using ADO.NET EF 4.1 Code First with existing Database
Most of the time questions comes to our mind about EF 4.1 Code First whether or not can we use it...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/16/2011
Code First EF 4.1 : Querying Many to Many Relationship
In continuation to my previous post on how to create one to many, let’s see how can we query it. We...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/16/2011
Code First EF 4.1 : Building Many to Many Relationship
Since we do not have any designer question might arise how can we create Many to Many relationship...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/14/2011
CodeFirst EF 4.1 : Changing Database Table and Column name
At times we need to control the Table and Column name of our generated database or have different...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/14/2011
Code First EF 4.1 : Missing “ADO.NET DbContext Generator” VS Template
I have seen people coming back to me asking questions about the template visible in Visual Studio...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/14/2011
Code First 4.1 : Using Stored Procedure to Insert Data
Code First in Entity Framework does not support Stored Procedure by default. As there is no designer...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/14/2011
LINQ to XML : Handling blank or no Element and Attribute
It quite so happen that you are working with XML where you are expecting a specific element in every...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/04/2011
Windows Azure Storage Simplified
While working with Windows Azure it makes me feel as if I am working on ADO.NET Entity Framework and...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/28/2011
MIX11 Recording Download using IE and Zune
Internet Explorer comes with a great RSS integration and by using that we can download the recording...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/21/2011
EF 4.1 Code First Validation
When we either use the Fluent API or the attribute to put restrictions to our properties and while...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/19/2011
Using Code First through NuGet
While working for a Code First project u need to refer the assembly from already installed EF 4.1...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/19/2011
ADO.NET Entity Framework Code First 4.1 - Online
April 20, 2011 at 11 AM Pacific Time. Please register at...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/19/2011
EF 4.1 Code First - Running SQL Queries
ADO.NET Entity Framework’s Code First 4.1 allows us to execute SQL queries directly. You may need to...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/11/2011
EF Code First 4.1 Lazy Loading
EF Code First supports Lazy Loading as Model (edmx). You need to define the navigation properties to...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/11/2011
ADO.NET Entity Framework Code First Development
I liked LINQ to SQL for its clean approach of defining only code to be able to access the database....
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/09/2011