I finally submitted my app to the market place on 10/11 during the early access program. The submission process was pretty smooth. The entire process took maybe 30 minutes. I had most of the images and information prepared ahead of time which helped. After about three days the submission status changed from “Testing in Progress” …
I like to keep things organized, especially code. So when I finished the icon/tile design for my WP7 app I decided to place them in the Resources folder of my solution instead of the default (root project folder). I marked the images as Content and set them to always copy to output. After a rebuild …
Upgraded my app to the final bits today and had a few notes to share. My Steps to Upgrade Create a new WP7 project (created a new project to make sure I didn’t miss out on any project overhead changes and skipped a merge) Copied my unit test project to the new solution folder, and …
Since the start of my WP7 app, I have leveraged IOC (specifically Ninject) to fill dependencies on my ViewModels following the MVVM Light samples. To briefly summarize, I have an app level resource called Locator which provides properties for each of my ViewModels. These properties get the instance from the IOC container. Locator: public …
I’m giving the users of my WP7 app the ability to save their data to a central server and per the developer guidelines I need to get permission from the user to do so. Wasn’t sure how to do this at first but I remembered that MessageBox works with WP7. So here is my implementation: …
I’ve attended several WP7 training events now and have heard that we can store as much data in isolated storage as the phone can hold. Apps are not constrained to an arbitrary fixed amount or percentage of phone space. But how many files can it hold? Regardless of file size, I figure the phone file …
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James Ashley posted a great tip on simplifying tombstoning by abstracting IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings and PhoneApplicationService.Current.State to a common interface IDataStorage. This makes storing either temporary state data or more permanent settings data much easier with less code. This was a very good post but the duplication on the two IDataStorage implementations made me cringe a little. …
No new content in this post, but wanted to share my findings on charting with MVVM on the phone. I initially started with Visifire. They have some really nice charts and features out of the box but I kept hitting brick walls with databinding and MVVM. They do have some databinding but it isn’t enough, …
I have been working on my second application for the last two weeks and wanted to share some code. As stated before, I’m really enjoying the MVVM pattern and how it makes code more testable. I wasn’t sure that I would be able to test touch interaction with the phone but was able to work …
I have been working on my WP7 app now for around 6 weeks. I’m not completely happy with it yet but I have good set of base functionality. For the first 4 weeks I couldn’t run my app in the emulator from the start screen or the app list. I had to start the app …