Windows Phone

Thanks to Everyone Who Attended Our Talk at Microsoft India, Hyderabad Members Public

Thanks to everyone who attended our(Gautam and mine) talk on Getting Started with Windows Phone and Store application on June 18, Tuesday as part of the Readiness training at Microsoft. Special thanks to Vamsi for assisting us throughout. I hope you all enjoyed the session as much as we

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Speaking

Windows Phone Series: Image Caching Library - JetImageLoader Members Public

Recently on a client project, I had a requirement to cache images locally on the phone and then load it from there from subsequent requests. Initially I had plans for custom implementing this using sqlite and custom code. While googling for this, I came across an awesome custom library that

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Windows Phone

Windows Phone Series: Bing Maps and Turn-by-Turn Navigation Members Public

Many applications today provide features that integrate with users location and provide information on a map based on that. In this blog will see how we can use the Bing maps to show a users current location, search for destination and show route to that location. For this will use

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Windows Phone

Getting Started with PhoneGap: Developing for Windows Phone and Android Members Public

With lots of devices and operating systems out there, developing a native application for each of these platforms might not always be an option for many businesses, because of the time, effort and money that would be required to be on all platforms. PhoneGap is one option that could be

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Android

Thanks to Everyone Who Attended My First Public Talk At C#Corner Hyderabad UG Members Public

Thanks to everyone who attended my very first public talk, at the C#Corner Hyderabad Chapter User Group(UG) on February 1, Saturday on Windows Phone Development. Summary of the event is available here. It was a very good experience speaking for the first time in front of a large

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Speaking

Windows Phone Series – Incremental Loading multiple data sources inside a Pivot Members Public

We had seen on how incremental loading can be done in a Windows phone, so that data can be fetched as user scrolls down the available data. This is important for data sources that have a large amount of data and when all of these cannot be loaded at once.

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Windows Phone

Windows Phone Series – Using UCWA to connect to Lync Server Members Public

One of the main things that makes enterprise or intranet applications more lively and connected with your business contacts, is to integrate with Lync (formerly Microsoft Office Communicator) and provide options to interact with them. UCWA(Unified Communications Web Api) is a REST API that exposes Lync Server and its

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Windows Phone

MVVM – A Windows Phone Scenario – Part 2 Members Public

We had looked into many of the common MVVM scenarios, that we come across while developing windows phone applications in MVVM – A Windows Phone Scenario. We will see some more that we were left off, in this post. 5. Page Navigations and Parameters For almost all the application, we would

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Windows Phone