It may be obvious for most of you, but it took a while to my caveman brain to realize this, so I figured I could post it for other cavemen. You (we) have got an excuse though: the short release cycle of Silverlight means that most stackoverflow questions and blog posts on the subject are [...]
UPDATE: Xavier Decoster already wrote a nice article on this topic some time ago. Please check it out! (Note to self: improve google skills) First, let me say that I’ll take the long route, so if you are already familiar with dynamic typing in C# you can probably jump straight to the last section. Otherwise [...]
Windows Phone 7 like every other phone OS turns off the screen after a period of inactivity. This is not a problem most of the time because any user activity (namely finger interactions on the screen) resets the countdown, so if you are using an application the screen saver will not get in the way. [...]
While developing a Silverlight Windows Phone 7 app I ran into this problem: when the application closes, an internal IsolatedStorageException is raised: An error occurred while accessing IsolatedStorage. at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageSecurityState.EnsureState() at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFile.get_AvailableFreeSpace() at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageSettings.Save() at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageSettings.TrySave() at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageSettings.SaveAllSettings() at MS.Internal.FrameworkCallbacks.ShutdownAllPeers() IsolatedStorageSettings seemed to be the cause of the problem. Very [...]
Lately I’ve been busy coding stuff for Windows Phone 7 –really fun! If you are a Swiss individual (i.e. you are not developing your apps for a company) then joining the Marketplace is not very straightforward. If you reside in another non-U.S. country you may as well read this post, I suppose you will only [...]
During this year’s Shape 2010 conference in Zurich-Oerlikon, Microsoft Switzerland announced the winners of the Best of Swiss Silverlight 2010 Award in collaboration with the Best of Swiss Web Association, simsa and Netzwoche. Incredibly my application Trails of Switzerland won the Bronze award. I was completely taken by surprise (not to mention super excited) because [...]
Situation: your Silverlight 3 application is calling a web service and while it works fine in the browser, it miserably fails in out of the browser mode (OOB). Don’t panic. It seems that you cannot call a webservice (in App.xaml.cs) before having assigned the application’s root visual. As mentioned, this is not a problem when [...]
Sometimes you have a color in XAML and want to use it in c#. In other words you want to translate something like: <Border Background=“#AA0FCC1B”>; to: Border.Background = …something… So you start looking for an IValueConverter that create a color from a RGB string, or translate the hex values to decimal, etc… STOP it! All [...]
…just a word of caution for developers: if you are still developing with Silverlight 3 and VS2008 don’t install the Silverlight 4 runtime. If you do, you won’t be able to build your SL3 application anymore and you’ll spend the next hour a) looking for a way to make your app build again b) looking [...]
Some months ago I read in a blog post that Silverlight ate WPF from the inside. I had a good laugh and thought it was the most foolish thing I’ve read in a while. I even posted a comment that (thankfully) never got published. Having worked extensively with both WPF and Silverlight I thought the [...]