I was looking for a template which will help put a pin / unpin button using toggle button. Thanks to Antoni Dol who has already shared a fantastic template in his blog. I had to make few changes with respective to the pinned style as I didn’t like the original one. So I made few […]
How To Check If Cookies Are Enabled In Windows Phone
Windows Phone as of today doesn’t provide a property or direct API call which will help you identify whether the user has chosen to accept cookies or not. However, we can identify this pretty neatly by trying to get the cookie collection. So to achieve this, we are going to get the cookie collection for […]
DIY Home Security Using Kinect, Azure, Windows Phone and Windows 8
Most the people who were in the TechEd 2012 India would have witnessed the cool demo by me and Abhijit Jana made on the opening Keynotes of the event. And now we would like to share how this solution was developed so that you can also build your own. Background Before we could pitch […]
Byte Array To BitmapImage Converter & IRandomAccessStream Implementation For Windows 8 Metro
After writing the application for Windows Phone, I wanted to bring the same feature with Windows 8 Metro but unfortunately, metro didn’t support the same converter for the reason that BitmapImage can no more read from Stream but only from IRandomAccessStream. I was very much disappointed with the Metro 8 API for having different design […]
TechEd India 2012 – Integrating Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 8 Metro and Kinect
I am very happy and excited to announce that this TechEd I will be presenting along with my friend Abhijit Jana. We will be presenting a session which will showcase the integration of Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 8 Metro and Kinect. For the presentation we have developed a proto solution for Home Security. Well […]
Byte Array To BitmapImage Converter For Windows Phone Silverlight
While you are binding a byte array of an image file to a Image control in WPF, it displays the image without any problem since, it has the converter for the same defined withing itself. While in Windows Phone, you don’t get the same liberty as with the WPF. Below is the code which I […]
uCertify PrepKit Review
Few days back I got an opportunity to review the certification prep kit for Exam 70-515 (C#) from UCertify. The prep kit software neatly downloads and installs on your machine (tested with Windows 7 64 bit Enterprise) without any malware. Once the prep kit is installed you can download and any exam you want. So […]
Why Ternary Operator Doesnt Support Nullable Types
Nullable types and ternary operators are around for many years now and may be not everybody know that ternary operator doesn’t support assigning null values to nullable types. There is also a bug logged in the “connect” site and it is closed by design. To understand the real reason for the design, I got in […]
Radio Button List Box With Seperate Group Name in Silverlight
I am developing a windows phone application and came across a situation where I needed mulitple radio button list box binding different values of same type. When I went for a control template as below, everything went just fine except that I ended up having the group name which means that doesn’t matter I have […]
Application Bar Button / Menu Item Not Firing Binding in Windows Phone
On a Windows Phone application and if you are using a two way binding along with Application Bar Button or Menu, you might be having a nightmare that the binding for the last focused control is not happening when you click the application bar button or menu. Now let’s have a look why this happens. If you […]