Category Archives: Windows Phone

While developing and testing a Windows Phone application you may have to deal with a really annoying problem: your application crashes and the only error reported by Visual Studio is a generic Unspecified error. Visual Studio itself isn’t of any … Continue reading →

Some time ago I was talking with a friend that needed a special requirement for his application: displaying GIF images downloaded from the web. This image format is not supported by Silverlight nor Windows Phone: if you try to download … Continue reading →

SQL CE is one of the most appreciated features for developers introduced in Windows Phone 7.5: before SQL CE the only way to store data locally was serialization or remote services (for example, on the cloud). With SQL CE, instead, … Continue reading →

The APIs provided by Windows Phone to create secondary tiles or to update the main tile are very simple to use, but not very flexible: you can set a title, a background, a counter, etc., but you can’t use a … Continue reading →