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    Make Your Own Live Tiles with RadControls for Windows Phone 7

    Without a doubt one of the coolest features of the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform sits on the home screen in the form of Live Tiles.  For those with lesser mobile operating systems, a Live Tile is a large icon that represents your application on the home screen of a WP7 device that allows for live updates.  Examples of these are seeing Facebook updates pop in for a pinned person on your phone, weather alerts popping up in WeatherBug, or something as simple as your Exchange email rolling up the numbers as new emails come in.  To give an example,...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
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    RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Are Here - So Now What?

    Now that the official release of RadControls for Windows Phone 7 has shipped, we have been seeing a few questions from both current and potential customers around what is coming next and what to expect from the suite now that it is official.  Luckily, I’ve got some answers for you! First up, now that the suite is official, the official “free lunch” with the RadControls for Windows Phone 7 is officially over.  What does that mean, you might ask?  As it turns out, during both the CTP and both Betas of the WP7 suite we had tons of developer interest, so much so...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Mobile

    Using SterlingDB with Telerik RadJumpList to achieve maximum performance in LOB scenarios

    This is the last part of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details and links for the other part of the series. In this article I will show you how to implement a real life LOB scenario for WP7. In our latest Telerik WP7 ToDo application we have a lot of tasks which should be persisted on the device. We are using SterlingDB to persist and retrieve the data to/from the IsolatedStorage and RadJumpList to group and display the data. SterlingDB is an open source, well documented and high performance database – it is available on...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
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    Implementing WP7 ToDo application part3 - adding richness and device features

    Add/Edit Task This is part 3 of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details and links for the other part of the series. The add/edit task screen is a standard form for adding and editing tasks. The more interesting things here are how the rich (voice, photo, location) fields for the tasks are specified. But first let’s see how to populate the “standard” fields. The design of the add/edit screen is specified below:  We basically have a form field for each of the Task class properties. For the string properties we have...
    May 27, 2021 9 min read
  • Mobile

    Implementing WP7 ToDo application part2 - building the home screen

    Building the Home Screen Panorama This is part 2 of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details about the application and links to the other part of the series. The home screen of the application consists from the following major components: Home Panorama Tasks List Projects List Let’s first examine the Panorama control. The requirements were that that the logo of the application and the “New Task” button should be always visible regardless to which item of the panorama the user has scrolled. To accomplish this we are using the Title property of the Panorama control...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read