Progress bar is the very nice and interactive control which tells the user that currently the app is busy doing some task and hence he should wait to get the response from the app, the task may be fetching data, uploading data or something else. Progress Indicator is in the system tray. System Tray is […]
Windows Phone Background Agents
Introduction Background agents are the scheduled tasks which run in background and add value to your application which the other application might not have. Here we will cover all about background agents, including their types and how and when to use them. I believe whatever app you have can be made better with the implementation […]
Windows Phone Runtime Storage
Windows Storage is an older technique which was also used in tradition windows application development, it uses a namespace Windows.Storage. Similar to Isolated Storage there is also a terminology used in Windows Storage: StorageFolder – It represents the storage area containing files and folder. StorageFile – Represents a file and provides method for manipulating them. Now […]
Application Settings in Windows Phone
Application Settings is the most useful and easiest way to store and access data in Windows Phone, it is a wonderful name value pair dictionary. If we want to store setting we use the ApplicationSettings object in Isolated Storage. Basically it is used for properties, settings and other commonly used data in your application. Saving […]
Storing Data Using WP7.1 Isolated Storage APIs
As of now we have learned about various file storing technique and in this post we will start with the first one in detail i.e. Storing Data Using WP7.1 Isolated Storage APIs. First of all we need to have a namespace so for this we have a namespace System.IO.IsolatedStorage. Here is a quick terminology used in […]
Files and Storage on Windows Phone 8
In this article we are going to learn about the storage in windows phone, it will be a local data storage and we will see different methods to use it. Let’s get a quick overview about how the data is stored locally in a windows phone. There are two different locations in which the data […]
Windows Phone : Application Bar
Application bar is one of the important thing required in Windows Phone applications, there might be many options which doesn’t fit well if we have a full screen app display and hence we need this application bar where we can actually have some buttons and menu items. Let’s take a quick look at the anatomy […]
Windows Phone : Page Navigation
Page navigation is an important aspect which is required for developing quality app because you just can’t build a single page app, you just need to navigate and this post will help you in navigating to pages in different styles. First of all we should learn the hierarchy where the page resides. Frame is the […]
Windows Phone : Data Binding
Data Binding is the most important part of developing a good quality dynamic application. You can set data of TextBox or someother control by creating different pages and you need to write a lot of code for that and hence data binding helps you to easily bind some data to your controls in creating complex […]
Kendo UI : Implementing a Grid Widget
As of now we have learned a lot about Kendo UI web widgets and now its time to learn some actual implementation, here I have chosen Grid as it is the most complex widget available. We will implement a full featured grid with some local data bounded to it by Kendo UI data source, it […]