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Saturday, December 15, 2012

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Friday, November 23, 2012

Scrollable Textbox Silverlight/WP7

I was doing an Application that required a Scrollable TextBox. Unfortunately the textbox that is available via the default WP7 controls is not scrollable. Naturally, i was looking for alternative controls/workarounds. But this time Googling did not work. There wasn't any decent work around available. I was about to quit doing the application, but thanks to a friend of mine i didn't. He found of a work around for this :) (had the eureka feeling :P ). OK enough story, lets get down to business. Solution:  Key thing: Set the height of the...

Friday, March 23, 2012

How to design a great Ui

This blog post is some what different from my regulars. I am going to share my views on how to design a great UI. Primarily I will be focusing on Windows and Windows phone based applications but this can be applied to other types also.  This post is not for professionals. Its for amateurs who are just getting into programming. I am an amateur myself and I don’t claim...

transparency: aero like effect–windows forms

The NEED: For PC’s having Windows XP,98 it is not possible to bring in aero effects like Transparency. Since these operating systems don’t have sufficient resources, achieving both backward compatibility and superior aesthetics is going to be really difficult. Therefore workaround’s are the only option. SMALL STORY: I was designing a Windows form application – an assignment...

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Detect Alarm Entry–Wp7

If you  have used Alarms and Reminders in Wp7 Mango SDK, you will notice that reminders can be detected by having a separate page in the application. But unfortunately there is no such detection mechanism available for Alarms. By detection mechanism what I mean is that- the differentiation between the app launch due to alarm and manual launch. What if the developer wanted to do something after the alarm has occurred? how does he detect that? I had the same problem and I am going to share the work around here. Its not a perfect substitute and...

Monday, January 9, 2012

Buttons in Listbox–WP7

Its really wonderful and dynamic to have a button associated with every element of listbox. This is really advantageous if you running short of screen space (often the case in phone applications). This is an extension of data binding techniques.But how do we know which element’s button is tapped because while defining the button using binding we give a single event handler....

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Ultimate alarm pro

Ultimate alarm pro an Alarm and reminder application application built for WP7.5 .I am going to describe something about this application. Ultimate alarm pro has some incredible features that no other alarm application has for wp7. It is built using silverlight and C#. Some of the features of this application are as follows: Pop up alarms : When you set an alarm a...

Med Prompter Pro

Med prompter is a medicine reminder application. It’s a simple utility presented with an incredible user interface, Some of the features of this application are as follows Reminder for each dose of each medicine: You can setup reminders for every dosage of each medicine. The reminders are set for the time you wish to take...

Insurance emergency assistance

  Insurance emergency assistance is an app that is used to manage insurance policies and to get the services specific for insurance during emergency.This application is built using Silverlight and C#.   During emergency , say if a car accident occurs we normally tend to forget the number of the insurance fellow, policy details etc. Next, you have to run behind him...

Finance Manager beta

Finance manager beta is an application i have designed for windows phone 7. I have given a brief summary of the app here. Check it out. Finance Manger beta is an app that helps in financial management needs on the go. Combined with an user friendly interface the functionality of the app includes calculations related to loans, expense tracking and...