Using Windows Phone's Map control and displaying multiple points using data binding.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/22/2012
When most people think of location, they assume this information comes from a GPS module. While this is true, Windows Phone also has support for determining location based on cell tower location and WiFi networks.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/11/2012
Integrating with SkyDrive can help your Windows Phone application save a user's settings to the cloud, and retrieve them across multiple devices and platforms.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/05/2012
Persisting user settings in Windows Phone is something every mobile developer needs to know how to do. Nick Randolph walks you through the process.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/08/2012
Nick Randolph continues to look at building applications across both Windows Phone and Windows 8, this time focusing on the navigation model.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/24/2012
Migrating a photo-sharing Windows Phone application to run under Windows 8.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/16/2012
By overriding templates, you can modify the look and feel of the ListBox without changing the underlying behavior.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/01/2012
Nick Randolph shows how to create and work with the Application Bar in your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/30/2012
What does the recent Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh and associated Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 update mean for developers?
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/28/2012
By creating a UI that works well with both dark and light themes, your Windows Phone applications will stand out.
- By Nick Randolph
- 02/06/2012
Nick Randolph looks at how you can use a UriMapper to help structure your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/12/2012
Why you should update your apps to target the "Mango" software development kit.
- By Nick Randolph
- 12/01/2011
How to integrate your Windows Phone 7 application into the search experience.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/30/2011
The "Mango" update to Windows Phone 7 includes LINQ to SQL abilities. Use them while building a movie review app.
- By Nick Randolph
- 10/13/2011
Using Windows Phone 7 data binding to create customized lists.
- By Nick Randolph
- 09/01/2011
Nick Randolph walks through how to define, change and work with orientation within your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 08/09/2011
Nick Randolph walks through how to use visual states to dynamically change the layout of pages in your Windows Phone application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 07/22/2011
Mobile Corner columnist Nick Randolph walks through how to use data binding to automatically display a progress bar when loading data in Windows Phone 7.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/27/2011
Nick Randolph walks through how to leverage the built-in system resources to style your application in line with the Windows Phone 7 Metro design language
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/17/2011
A walk through the Windows Phone 7 application lifecycle with some tricks to effectively handle tombstoning.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/01/2011
Mobile Corner columnist Nick Randolph breaks down some of the key improvements announced at yesterday's Windows Phone "Mango" launch event, and says the raft of new consumer-oriented features make Mango a more attractive developer target.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/25/2011
Nick Randolph walks through how to create and consume resources within your Windows Phone 7 application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/23/2011
Nick Randolph walks through how to use the Grid to layout your Windows Phone 7 application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/09/2011
Mobile Corner columnist Nick Randolph walks through a template that can get your first Windows Phone 7 application up and running fast.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/19/2011
New VSM columnist Nick Randolph kicks off his Mobile Corner column by showing how to build a YouTube search app using Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/01/2011