Every Windows Phone 7 application needs to manages tombstoning correctly to provide a better user experience and pass the application certification requirements. When your application goes into tombstone state, it is your responsibility to save all the application and page state, so that when the page gets reloaded it can recover properly and reload the previous data. This was the user doesn’t even realizes that the application process got terminated and reloaded.
Arik Poznanski has a few blog post with pictures reporting the MIX11 sessions he attended:
Arik Poznanski has published his keynotes summary (with many pictures) from Day 1 and 2 at MIX11 event:
The new version of Windows Phone 7 was announced, codename Mango. Among its capabilities: Internet Explorer 9 on the phone, with the same HTML 5 support. There was a nice comparison of the mobile browsers iPhone vs. Android vs. Windows Phone Mango. Enable custom ringtones Improved Panorama and Pivot controls Sockets support [...]
In this article, Arik Poznanski shows how you can use the Shake Gestures Library in your application.
Source: The Code Project
This document introduces a helper library for identifying shake gestures by using the accelerometer built into Windows Phone 7 devices. It explains how to use the library, how the library works internally, and how you can configure the library’s parameters to adapt gesture detection to your needs.
Arik Poznanski published the PowerPoint presentation and the demos from the lecture he gave at the SDP 2011 conference titled “3-Screens Development using WPF, Silverlight and WP7”.
Source: Arik Poznanski's Blog
In this lecture I’ve presented the application FlashCards.Show which has 3 clients in WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. I showed how to share the code base between the different clients using: MVVM Adding files as links Preprocessor symbols OOP Portable Library tools
Arik Poznanski continues his exploration of the Twitter service on Windows Phone 7.
In the previous post we’ve seen how to get list of trends on twitter. On this post we continue to explore twitter service. We will see you how to search for twits on twitter.
In this blog post, Arik Poznanski demonstrates how to get the list of trends on Twitter.
Twitter provides a cool site named http://whatthetrend.com/ where you can see the 10 topics which are most discussed currently on twitter. This site also provides us a web service that returns its results in JSON data format.
Arik Poznanski wrote another utility class that helps searching Digg results asynchronously on a Windows Phone 7 application.
I will present how it was written and then how to use it. At the end of this post you can find a sample application that contains all the code.
Arik Poznanski wrote a utility class that helps reading RSS items asynchronously on a Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 application.
Arik Poznanski has published the source code for his ProgressBarWithText control for WP7.
As you might already guessed from the post title, I’ve added a text block to the control which will be shown whenever the progress bar, well, progress… The reason for adding this feature was that I’ve found that every time I use a progress bar, I wish to write a simple text near it, usually something like “Loading…”