Beginners Guide to Windows Phone Development (#WPDev) Tutorials

Beginners Guide to Windows Phone Development (#WPDev) Tutorials


On popular demand, I came up with this blog post. In this page, I composed all the articles, tips & tricks, problem & solutions that a Windows Phone Developer should know.

 

This list is not a complete list and I will add more links to this page once I complete more articles and tips on WPDev. So, bookmark it for your future reference and to get all the latest updates on Windows Phone 7 Application Development.

 

Introduction to Windows Phone and SDK Downloads

 

Before starting with the Windows Phone, you need to become familiar with the device. This is anytime needed for a beginner to know more about the device and the latest happenings in this platform. I will update this section with the latest findings, so that, you will be able to know more on this. Here are few tips for you to get comfortable with the device.

    1. How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen?

    2. How to Unpin an Application from the Start Screen?

    3. How to Unlock Your WP7 Device for Development?

    4. How to Enable Call Waiting Service in WP7?

    5. What’s New in Windows Phone 8?

    6. Can we Upgrade our WP7 Device to Support WP8?

Now it’s time for you to get started with the application development process. Before starting with the tutorials, you need to setup your development environment with the SDK tools. Here comes the links for you to download the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK tools. Few links are deprecated because a new version of the installer is now available. Also, you can find a free eBook to get started with Windows Phone Toolkit.

    1. Download Windows Phone 7.1 SDK

    2. Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2011 (7.1 SDK) Released

    3. Download Free eBook: Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth

Once you are done with the installation of the Windows Phone 7 SDK, you can jump start with the development tutorials and build your first Windows Phone application using Visual Studio.

 

Windows Phone 7 Tutorial for Beginner

 

Here comes the list of Windows Phone 7 Tutorial. The list is not complete but I will add them here frequently once I publish new articles on Windows Phone Development. Start reading them one by one and if you have any queries, don’t hesitate to ask me on the same page and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

    1. Creating a Hello World Application

    2. Know more about Windows Phone Page

    3. Know more about PhoneApplicationPage

    4. What is Application Bar?

    5. Design Guidelines for Application Bar

    6. Working with Navigation

    7. Know about Application Lifecycle

    8. What is Page State?

    9. Know more about Page State Management

    10. What is Application State?

    11. Know more about Application State Management

    12. Using Isolated Storage to Store and Retrieve Data

    13. What is Tombstoning?

    14. Detecting Network Information of the Device

    15. Detecting Device Information

    16. How to Create a WP7 Alarm Application?

    17. How to Create a WP7 Reminder Application?

    18. Know about various Phone Tasks

    19. What is WP7 Accelerometer?

    20. Know about the Accelerometer Tool

    21. Small Demo of Accelerometer Application

    22. Local Database Support, Create DataContext

    23. Local Database Support, Configuring Project

    24. Local Database Support, CRUD operation with Demo

    25. Learn about Database Connection String

    26. What is Input Scope?

    27. WP7 Launchers and Choosers - A WP7Dev should know

      1. How to Call a Number in WP7 using the PhoneCallTask?

      2. How to Compose SMS in WP7 using the SmsComposeTask?

      3. How to Launch the WP7 Application Details Page using the MarketplaceDetailTask?

      4. How to Launch the WP7 Marketplace Hub using the MarketplaceHubTask?

      5. How to Launch the WP7 Media Library using the PhotoChooserTask?

      6. How to Retrieve Contact Information in WP7 using the AddressChooserTask?

      7. How to Retrieve Email Address in WP7 using the EmailAddressChooserTask?

      8. How to Retrieve Phone Number from Contacts in WP7 using the PhoneNumberChooserTask?

      9. How to Save Contact in WP7 using the SaveContactTask?

      10. How to Save Email Address in WP7 using the SaveEmailAddressTask?

      11. How to Save Phone Number in WP7 using the SavePhoneNumberTask?

      12. How to Save Ringtones in WP7 using the SaveRingtoneTask?

      13. How to Search for a Contact in WP7 using the Contacts class?

      14. How to Send Email in WP7 using the EmailComposeTask?

      15. How to Share Links from WP7 to Social Networking Sites using the ShareLinkTask?

      16. How to Share Status from WP7 using the ShareStatusTask?

      17. How to search in the WP7 Marketplace using the MarketplaceSearchTask?

    28. Know About WP7 Page Orientation and Supported Orientations

    29. Know About WP7 System Tray - Tips to Show or Hide it

    30. How to Detect whether the Network is Available?

    31. How to Detect the Current Theme?

    32. How to detect System Information of WP7 Device?
    33. How can you Add Network Connection Settings Page in your WP7 Application?
    34. What is Frame Rate Counter in WP7?
    35. Why the Frame Rate Counter is not Available in my WP7 Emulator?
    36. How to Deploy XAP File in a Windows Phone Emulator?

    37. Showing and Hiding onscreen keyboard in Emulator

    38. Working with Default FontSize in Windows Phone 7 Applications

    39. How to detect whether Music is playing in WP Background

    40. How to use PlaySoundAction Behavior in WP7 Application?

    41. Fetching Picasa Images through RSS in WP7

    42. How to download and save images in WP7 Media Library?

I hope that the above list of tutorial will help you to get started with the Windows Phone 7 application development. I will continue updating the list regularly. Do bookmark this page for future reference.

 

Getting Started with Telerik Controls for WP7

 

Except the above WP7Dev Tutorials, I also have few tutorial chapters on 3rd party control library from Telerik. Here is a list of few links. Will continue adding more into this list.

    1. What’s New in Telerik RadControls for WP7 Q2.2012 Release?

    2. Working with WP7 RadBusyIndicator control from Telerik

    3. Learn about RadDiagnostics for retrieving Exception Details using the Telerik Controls for WP7

    4. Learn about RadPhoneApplicationFrame for Page Animations using the Telerik Controls for WP7

 

Problems and Solutions

 

A collection of problems and solutions are kept here. If you find these problems while building your Windows Phone apps, it will directly help you to resolve faster.

    1. Solution for “FrameworkDispatcher.Update has not been called exception” in WP XNA

    2. Solution for “The program can't start because MFPlat.dll is missing from your computer”

Did you come across any other problems? Do let me know and if you have any solutions for that, send it to here: contribute@kunal-chowdhury.com and I will post it here in my blog as Guest Post giving proper credit to you.

 

End Note

This is not a complete list. I just shared the articles that I have composed here in my blog. In future I will add more links here in this post once I compose more on the said topic. Do bookmark this page for your reference and share it to your network and help others to find this tutorial easily.

 

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21 comments

  1. Man ! this is just awesome .. It looks like entire encyclopedia of phone applications is here.

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  2. Hi Saurabh,

    Thanks for the feedback. I hope that, this list will help you to learn about WP7 application development. Many more yet to come.

    Regards,
    Kunal

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  3. Great job done Kunal. Great starting point for All WP7Development.

    Thanks.

    Hassan Fadili
    MVP VS ALM

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  4. Hi Kunal,

    I'm very new to this windows mobile platform.
    I know only java. I don't know anything about this windows platform.
    So Can you please suggest from where to start and what are the prerequisites.

    Thanks & Regards,
    Suresh Basina

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    1. Hi Suresh,

      If you are completely from Java platform, you have to start learning the Microsoft .NET, C# and then a bit about XAML in order to start learning the Windows Phone platform.

      I will suggest you to start learning Microsoft .NET first.

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  5. hi kunal,

    Your article is very nice.......
    can you tell me how we can call multiple web service in window phone application
    with silverlight in C#.net.....

    please help me.....

    neha

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  6. Hi Kunal,

    I want to post image to server using webclient but i am not able to do this can u help me with this please
    below is my code check and modify whatever need....

    string clientImg ="";
    private void cameraCaptureTask_Completed(object sender, PhotoResult e)
    {
    if (e.TaskResult == TaskResult.OK)
    {
    BitmapImage bm = new BitmapImage();
    bm.SetSource(e.ChosenPhoto);
    if (bm != null)
    {
    byte[] bytearray = null;
    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
    {
    WriteableBitmap wbitmp = new WriteableBitmap(bm);
    wbitmp.SaveJpeg(ms, wbitmp.PixelWidth, wbitmp.PixelHeight, 0, 100);
    ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    bytearray = ms.GetBuffer();
    }
    clientImg = Convert.ToBase64String(bytearray);
    }
    }
    }

    webClient.UploadStringAsync(new Uri(saveLink, UriKind.Absolute), "key="+clientImg);


    Thanks & Regards,
    Amit Kumar Sharma

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  7. Hi Kunal,

    I have started following your blogs very lately :-(...Better late, than Never! :-)

    BTW, I have a question... Is it possible to answer / ignore an incoming call pro grammatically? Or just make it to vibrate when you get a call?

    It seems its not possible at least in WP8. Just wanted to double check with an expert like you!

    I have tried the phoneAppRootFrame.Obscured.. The event is getting fired..and my phone is also getting vibrated (I Used Microsoft.Devices.VibrateController.Default.Start(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2.0));) in the phoneAppRootFrame.Obscured event.

    But, just my Incoming call just makes my phone ring like normal!..

    Any help from your end?

    Thanks,
    Prawin

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    1. Hi Prawin,

      You can not control the incoming call or sms due to security reason.

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  8. Can i display the Count on the Tile When the Notification Comes at the Client Side in windows Phone 8..And How can i come to know that When the Notification Comes in my program. or Which Event Raises in my Code when Notification Comes in windows Phone......

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  9. Hi Kunal,

    It's a Great job....

    And I have a doubt : what is the difference between Windows 8 App development and Windows Phone Development.
    Can u please give the books for Windows 8 App development ?

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  10. Hi Kunal,

    It's a Great job....

    And I have a doubt : what is the difference between Windows 8 App development and Windows Phone Development.
    Can u please give the books for Windows 8 App development ?

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  11. Hi KC,
    In windows phone 7 we had Socket through which we can get to know that currently device is connected to internet through which mode i.e. Wifi or mobile data (3g or 2g) ... But that is nomore working in wp8 .. In wp8 we have socketstream ... but it does not give any information about NetworkInterfaceType ..... So any other wayout for this problem ?

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  12. Hi Kunal,

    I am calling a web service in to my program & diasplaying data on Emulater screen. Now the question is when data is added in the site (Web service Providing site), then i want to show even the app is not opened the mobile as a notification . So how can i show this Please advise...

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  13. Hello Kunal,

    This is great information. Thank Very Much & i Have One Question in This..

    I am showing data on windows phone emulator by calling a web service. I want to show the notification when another items are to the site (Web service providing site). How can i achieve this Please advice... Thank You

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    1. You have to use Push Notification for this.

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  14. Hey kunal, how to delete item data template ? data template there is in listbox. thank you :) i'am from Indonesia

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    1. Hi Irfan, you can not just delete the data template but you can modify it properly as per your business need.

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  15. Hi Sir, I need to integrate Audio call API in my Application Si please help me.

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  16. Great tutorial!
    Here you share a valuable tips for windows phone development. I want to know this tutorial also able to give help for windows phone 8.1 app development

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    1. Not completely as many APIs have been changed. For WP 8.1 related changes, follow this link: http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/search/label/WP8Dev

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