Abstract

The article describes how to create a powerful Windows Phone 7 catalogue presentation which downloads the actual data from Internet and displays them in an intuitive and innovative way on a Windows Phone 7 device.

The application we are about to create in this article will consist of two parts:

• Web Service – runs at server – provides data for the application
• Shopping Mall – a WP7 application visualizing data to the user through its GUI (rendered with the help of Bee Mobile Metropolis).

Key topics

which will be discussed in the article:

• How to create a Web Service.
• How to load data to a Data Set from XML file on server’s side and publish it through Web Methods.
• Create a WP7 client application which consumes a Web Service.
• Use Bee Mobile Metropolis (set of WP7 GUI controls) to create the application GUI.

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This is the second part of the article about Windows Mobile programming tricks. The reason I created this article is that the following tricks either cannot be achieved using pure managed code or they are not easy to find out in the big twine of classes .NET CF provides. We found out in our company that these are some of the hurdles the developers often need to overcome and decided to share the how-to. If you have any ideas on how to extend this project or would like to share additional how-to you are welcome to contact me.

I will show you how to:

• SIM card
  • Get IMSI
• Phone
  • Get IMEI
  • Get or set the volume of the phone ringer
• Memory
  • Get total physical memory
  • Get amount of available memory
  • Get amount of used memory
• Device
  • Get or set the system volume
  • Soft reset the device Continue reading…

In this article I will describe some tricks which many Windows Mobile developers may need while developing for .NET Compact Framework platform. The reason I decided to write this article is that because the following tricks either cannot be achieved using pure managed code or they are not easy to find out in the big twine of classes .NET CF provides.

I will show you how to:

• Graphics
  • Capture the screen (create a screen shot)
  • Reset the idle timer (keep the backlight on)
  • Show/hide the soft input panel button
• File System
  • Create a shortcut in the start menu
  • Get path to special folders (\Program Files, \Windows, etc.)
  • Get path to the folder of the currently executed assembly
  • Get the names of all storage cards Continue reading…

Abstract

This article shows how you can:

• Download data from the local mobile database within sdf file.
• Create iPhone-like GUI on Windows Mobile to display the data.
• Create functionality to search the table data.
• Polish the app by adding some cool features such as round buttons, vibration, glass effect.
• Find out how to detect the current resolution fast.

At the end the article discusses how to display large amount of data on a mobile device. Continue reading…