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    Get More Data for Your Windows Phone App Performance with This Free Tool

    I just found out a very useful, free monitoring tool for Windows Phone apps called Distimo Monitor. It gives you valuable insights as to what affects downloads and revenues of your app. It provides of course Downloads and Revenue reports by country, day etc. like you would expect.  The two more interesting features are the Rankings and the Events reports. You can see the rankings of your app/apps for each day and country and how it evolved over time. You can even add comments to the rankings graph, just like in Google Analytics, so that you can track how a certain...
    December 14, 2011
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    Building Stock charts with RadChart for Windows Phone

    Download the demo Visualizing financial data with RadChart for Windows Phone, part of RadControls for Windows Phone, has never been easier. As of the Q3 2011 release, the control adds two of the most popular financial series – Candlestick and Stick (or OHLC as we call it) to its broad range of different visualizations. In this post I will explain how easy it is to setup a chart that visualizes some financial data. The more interesting topics covered are: Reading data from a file and creating view models Setting-up and styling a RadCartesianChart instance Adding chart interactivity  The view model The data points created by a CandleStickSeries...
    December 08, 2011
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    How to Promote your Windows Phone App on a Shoestring

    Couple of weeks ago, while writing a blog post about some free advertising we were giving away together with AdDuplex,  I realized, as obvious as it sounds, that monetizing from a Windows Phone app actually requires two very different set of skills: development and marketing skills. It’s one thing to build a nice app and another to successfully promote it.  And it is rare, correct me if I’m wrong, that one person is good at both. And chances are that you do not have an advertising budget. So what do you do? The truth is that there are a bunch...
    December 02, 2011
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    Building a Picture Browser app for Windows Phone using RadSlideView and RadDataBoundListBox

    One of the fresh new add-ons for the official Q3 2011 release of RadControls for Windows Phone is RadSlideView. The control provides smooth and slick user experience allowing for navigating a sequence of content items slide-by-slide. The control is also fully aware of orientation changes and the items are resized and re-arranged accordingly to the current orientation. In this post I want to demonstrate how easy it is to build a simple picture-browser application based on our RadDataBoundListBox and RadSlideView controls.   Download Demo What’s more interesting in the demo: Simulating Wrap Layout with RadDataBoundListBox Building a custom control to be used for image holder Using RadSlideView with SlideViewPictureSource  App architecture It is...
    November 28, 2011
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    Introducing a new WP7 control: RadAutoCompleteBox

    One of the new controls that come in the Q3 2011 package is RadAutoCompleteBox: an extended TextBox control that provides a flexible infrastructure for displaying suggestions to the user as they type. Coming with a bunch of customization options, RadAutoCompleteBox implements two auto-complete strategies that cover the most common developer scenarios: Contains filtering mode StartsWith filtering mode Here is a screenshot of our new Auto Complete Box example in the Telerik Demos application: Both the Contains and StartsWith filtering strategies are implemented in a very performance oriented approach and are capable of handling large data sets by preserving the smooth and responsive UI experience. Besides all that, RadAutoCompleteBox...
    November 16, 2011