This post is a quick run through on how to capture camera input in a Windows Phone 7 application. Source is available at git@github.com:jeffvee/SimpleCameraCapture.git. To be able to capture camera input, we have to use what is called a “chooser.” In this case, we will use a CameraCaptureTask that we initialize at the beginning of [...]
This post is short introduction to handling touch events in a Windows Phone 7 application. All source is available at. git@github.com:jeffvee/Tocame.git and is built against the latest Mango bits as of this writing. There are two primary means of dealing with touch events in a non-XNA Windows Phone 7 application. These are affectionately referred to [...]
This post is a quick overview to Mango’s new local database functionality. We will be implementing the same functionality as in our fun with files post, namely, simple user management. We will restate the features we want to support here briefly: Create a new user View a user’s preferences Remove a user List users All [...]
Continuing with what’s becoming the “I can’t believe it’s this easy” series of Windows Phone 7 development, this post is quick run through of how to add new screens and button handlers in a Windows Phone 7 application. Starting with a new Windows Phone 7 application, we have to first add a new screen to [...]
This was so hilariously simply I just had to post it. Apparently when you create a new Windows Phone 7 project in Visual Studio 2010, you get a splash screen for free. Looking at the solution explorer, you’ll see the below. We can see that we have a file called “SplashScreenImage.jpg” in our project [...]
This post is a quick run down of the Windows Phone 7 application bar, as seen from the perspective of Mango. It builds mostly on the associated MSDN links, but fleshes things out a bit more. When it comes to apps, the Windows Phone 7 application bar is the equivalent of Android’s menu button. It [...]
