Im a C# dev and recently my company has the need for a RSS news feed with a live tile update (windows 10 only). Im kinda new to the universal apps stuff and was hoping someone can help point me in the right direction. Some good tutorials and possibly samples related to rss feeds.
Also, am I on the right path? Is a universal app what I need or would a classic windows assembly do the trick?
Thanks for any advice. Please let me know if you need more details.
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I have developed a lockscreen app for window phone 8/8.1, that's released in the windows store, but lot of my friends suggested that I should integrate the weather widgets with customize options like location, refresh interval, etc in the app.
I searched a lot in the internet, I googled a lot, but believe me there seems to be nothing is provided to integrate weather widgets in lockscreen. Is there any way? Or is this something not allowed in WP 8.1?
In windows Phone to work with lockscreen apps, developer have to work with Backgroundtask agent, I know and I did that, but how to access the open area left in the lockscreen?
Any sample code, links or even a guide would do, please help. Please guide me, a novice app developer.
Please look in to msdn
Lock screen for Windows Phone 8
I apologize in advance for asking this on SO but I cant seem to find an answer anywhere else.
Is there a good tutorial for building non trivial app on windows phone (7 or 8) from start to finish.
as windows phone has many features you can follow the below link and choose your own Sample
Windows Phone Samples
Sample App Demonstration
It also depends on which language you want to code, although c# is popular among them.
All information to start can be found at http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us
For example this first step-by-step tutorial
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windowsphone/develop/ff402526(v=vs.105).aspx
I want to develop a metro style application using c# and xaml.In windows 8 there are many default apps like maps,weather etc.
Is there any way to get the source code for maps or weather app in windows 8?
Please help me.
All the Windows Store apps are installed to
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps
where you can look at them. The JavaScript apps are readable without problems, you need to decompile the C# apps to get to their source code. You can use tools like JustDecompile from Telerik (free).For more info see this article by Justin Angel http://justinangel.net/ReverseEngineerWin8Apps
I highly recommended you to visit Microsoft Windows Store app site. The site gives plenty of function-by-function examples.
Please download C# 30.9M sample files at below link and it would be good reference for you.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Windows-8-Modern-Style-App-Samples
For more real-life example as you imagine,
The weather app example:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/99bb20/consume-web-service-in-metro-style-app/
The map app example:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Bing-Maps-SDK-for-Metro-31b378eb
I saw the Velocity channel's "Inside West Coast Customs" this week featuring the construction of Microsoft's (Channel 9) Project Detroit, and was really impressed by the ability to play the Kinect's video and audio feeds from Windows Phone 7. I decided to put together a little utility of my own using the same principle, but am unable to find any code samples on how to accomplish this.
Can anyone here provide me with a code sample, or point me in the right direction? Microsoft is planning to release some portions of their source code from Project Detroit eventually, but I'm hoping this has already been done elsewhere.
I appreciate any help you guys can provide. Thank you!
Best regards,
Sebastian
Take a look at the Kinect Service Kinect Service
They used windows phone sockets to relay the data. It even includes a sample windows phone app.
I am a Dot net C# developer web and desktop apps, recently I have decided to begin development for windows phone 7
from the initial searching on the internet I found that I could user silver-light or XNA Framework for developing on WP7
I do not know any thing about both of them, so do I have to learn both of them to be able to develop WP7 APPS or just one is enough
also Which is better for development if one is enough!
Thanks in advance.
There is no good answer for this question if you do not describe application you want to develop. Both technologies are useful for different purposes. I had the same problem with my applications and those my conclusions:
Silverlight: better for business applications when you have small amount of animations (GPU usage)
XNA: high quality games and rich animations
Of course you can use also Silverlight for games and XNA for business application but generally I spot that it will not work well in most cases.
I first start to implement my application in Silverligh (app with lots of animations) but performance was poor so I decided to switch to XNA. If you want to learn basics of both read Charles Petzold Programming Windows Phone 7
Welcome to WP7 community.
Basically if you want to make event-driven applications, Silverlight is the answer and if your code depends on continuously running loop(like in a game) XNA is the thing.
As u have said dat u develop apps, Silverlight is the light for your question.
You can get lots of samples on net. The official site is http://www.create.msdn.com.
I think Silverlight is easier to start with.
to simplify, Silverlight is intended to be for apps, while XNA is intended to be for games.