Microsoft TechDays 2011 was held at 18th of May 2011 in Skopje, Macedonia. Here’s a short overview of the sessions: 1. Keynote , Karl Davies-Barrett The keynote was held by Karl Davies-Barrett. We had a really interesting dive into the future applications development using Microsoft technologies. We...

Microsoft released Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta on May 24 th . You can download these from here . These tools bring one of the most requested features - “Multitasking”. The meaning of multitasking in Windows Phone is slightly different from the multitasking we are all used to. It...

ScheduledNotifications The both ScheduledNotification classes ( Alarm and Reminder ) inherit from the base classes ScheduledNotification and ScheduledAction . The difference is that when we want to send contextual information to the application that created the notification we should use Reminder...

You can easily add page transition in your application in 5 simple steps. 1. Download and install Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit . 2. Go to your App.cs file, find and replace public PhoneApplicationFrame RootFrame { get; private set; } with the following: public TransitionFrame...

In my previos blog post I explained how to use page transition provided by Silverlight Toolkit For Windows Phone . Here I’ll show hot to make your own custom page transition. The first step is to add a refference to Windows.Phone.Controls.Toolkit Than add new class that inherits...

In Windows Phone 7 the only way to update a tile was trough Push Notification. In Windows Phone “Mango” one of the most attractive features is the Live Tiles. Using this new functionality developers can add, update and delete tiles without using Push Notifications. In WP "Mango"...