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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Developer Conference 2011 Hyderabad Contest
Thanks for great response and feedback on our session “Knotting Kinect, Windows Azure and Windows Phone”. As we promised over the session, we are extremely thrilled to announce the contest for all the participants of Developer Conference 2011. We are looking for a good creative application which spawns across the Windows Azure and Windows Phone […]
Knotting Kinect, Windows Azure and Windows Phone Presentation
It was an immense pleasure to have a good time and presentation on the developer conference this time. I am personally exited and very much boosted on the greater enthusiasm you all have shown towards the technology. Me an Abhijit are already working on the contest rules and we will be posting the details by […]
Virtual Tech Days Presentation Building Windows Phone 7 Applications Using Windows Azure
It was a good experience presenting the Windows Phone applications using windows azure. Thanks everybody for joining. I will be writing a series of articles on this sooner. Presentation (2.10 mb) Demo Source (8.67 mb)