Update for Windows Phone Calendar

It was pointed out to me that in some countries calendar week starts with Monday, not Sunday.  I have been working for a bit to support this in my Calendar project.  You can also install or upgrade the project via nuget. Please let me know what you think.  To use new feature, just set the …

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Update to Windows Phone 7 Controls

I updated Calendar control for Windows Phone 7 on CodePlex today. I added support for other languages as well as published the package to NuGet. You can added it to your Windows Phone 7 applications, both targeting 7.0 and 7.1 versions by typing the following into NuGet package manager console: Install-Package WPControls You can also …

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VS Live Orlando 2011

As I mentioned before, I presented at VS Live conference in Orlando, FL Thursday, 12/08/2011. I presented the following two talks Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 I will talk about various approaches to work with data on Windows Phone 7. I will cover all major concepts, such as local storage, OData/WCF Data Services …

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VS Live Orlando

I will be speaking at VS Live conference in Orlando, FL on 12/08/2011. I will be presenting the following two talks. Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 I will talk about various approaches to work with data on Windows Phone 7. I will cover all major concepts, such as local storage, OData/WCF Data Services …

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VS Live Redmond 2011

As I mentioned before, I presented at VS Live conference in Redmond, WA yesterday, 10/20/2011.  I presented the following two talks Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 I will talk about various approaches to work with data on Windows Phone 7.  I will cover all major concepts, such as local storage, OData/WCF Data Services …

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More Changes to Calendar Control for WP 7

In the spirit of further improving my calendar control for Windows Phone 7, I added ability to show week number in the first column of the calendar control. As you can see, the very first column can show week number,.  If course, I cannot break existing functionality, so the feature is disabled by default.  You …

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Update to Calendar Control for Windows Phone 7

Today due to numerous requests (technically one request from one person ), I updated my CodePlex project for calendar control for Windows Phone 7 – http://wpcontrols.codeplex.com/. I added gesture support to the project.  You can now swipe (flick) from side to side to increment or decrement month, and swipe top to bottom and back to …

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Consuming WCF REST Service from WP 7

In this post I will explore a possibility of talking to a WCF REST Service from a Windows Phone 7 device.  This should complete my posts related to consuming and working with data on Windows Phone 7. I am going to start with creating a WCF REST Service.  First of all, I am going to …

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SQL CE in Mango–Updating the Schema

In my previous post I talked about general usage of SQL CE database in Mango.  In this example I am going to talk about keeping the database schema updated. For example, I want to add a column to Person table from previous post.  I would like to add Notes column with the following definition:         …

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