Windows Phone as of today doesn’t provide a property or direct API call which will help you identify whether the user has chosen to accept cookies or not. However, we can identify this pretty neatly by trying to get the cookie collection. So to achieve this, we are going to get the cookie collection for [...]
Feb 15 2012
Byte Array To BitmapImage Converter For Windows Phone Silverlight
While you are binding a byte array of an image file to a Image control in WPF, it displays the image without any problem since, it has the converter for the same defined withing itself. While in Windows Phone, you don’t get the same liberty as with the WPF. Below is the code which I [...]
Oct 16 2011
Radio Button List Box With Seperate Group Name in Silverlight
I am developing a windows phone application and came across a situation where I needed mulitple radio button list box binding different values of same type. When I went for a control template as below, everything went just fine except that I ended up having the group name which means that doesn’t matter I have [...]
Oct 13 2011
Application Bar Button / Menu Item Not Firing Binding in Windows Phone
On a Windows Phone application and if you are using a two way binding along with Application Bar Button or Menu, you might be having a nightmare that the binding for the last focused control is not happening when you click the application bar button or menu. Now let’s have a look why this happens. If you [...]
Apr 13 2011
Whats New In Windows Phone Mango
As we all are aware that Windows Phone 7 is a huge success in the market, and Microsoft is really committed to keep the bar raising with every release. Windows Phone Mango will be the next major release in the smart phone market. Though there are multiple unanswered questions we have at this moment, there [...]
Dec 02 2010
Highlighted Features & Improvements In Silverlight 5
While I am watching the live streaming of the much awaited Silverlight Fire Starter, I decided to write on the new interesting and highlighted features of the upcoming Silverlight 5 as pointed out by Scott Guthire. Highlighted New Features Hardware Decode : All the media streamed in Silverlight can now take the advantage of GPU [...]
