I was trying to look for a way to add appointments/tasks to the Windows Phone Calendar via the Microsoft.Phone.UserData. Does anyone know if this is even possible in the new Mango release?
This is only possible in Windows Phone 8.
Edit And yes, I know the question is tagged as 7.1. This is to let future users know.
According to this MSDN article access to the Calendar is read-only
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I am planning to write a twitter app for Windows phone 7 with supporting Arabic, RTL with complex scripting, and with Arabic keyboard layout like the one in this app as this langauge is not supported by WP7.
I tried looking for a resources to help with this porcess but couldnt find any.
So does anyone have an idea on how the complex scripting can be rendered in WP7 through apps?
regards,
I saw a demo on a Windows Phone lately. Arabic text is shown normally in internet explorer and even SMS! But user can not write Arabic in the current moment as the Windows Phone 7 now is not supporting it. But People in Redmond promised it will be available in next language package updates! May be you should let Arabic supporting feature for the next version of your application.
About the app you pointed as example, I believe they have made their own custom keyboard! So you might contact the company developed the application and ask them for keyboard if it is available as 3rd party component.
Back when Windows Phone 7 had it's first SDK released they had an item list template that had the transitions for the items. Currently in the RTM tools there doesn't appear to be any support for this, can you not access the standard built-in transitions in Windows Phone 7?
You can implement this yourself with Blend.
Two things you can look at.
Christian Schormann's blend demo in his CL02 Mix Talk.
Shawn Wildermuth's blog post on this topic.
Bring Back Page Transitions to the Windows Phone List Application Template
Micks' suggestion is great. To add awesomeness to your Windows Phone application, learning how to use Blend is important. Adding page transitions is quite simple to a Windows Phone app is easy and if you are looking for sample code/library, Kevin Marshall has a good sample here. I would also recommend reading Kevin's development tips for Windows Phone development.
I've found the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone has some transitions very similar to those that exist in the phone itself.
http://silverlight.codeplex.com/
I want to write silverlight application for iPad device. Is that possible? i have searched on google but not getting exactly. Need proper guidance on it. Any help will be appreciated.
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No, it's not possible - at all. Apple would need to make a decision to allow it to happen, but they have not. Before they would do that, it's likely they would consider Flash on iPad first and that has not been allowed either. That's the reason you haven't found anything on it.
Not possible without a jailbroken iPad with a silverlight application installed, which I don't think exists as of yet.
There is no official support for Silverlight on iOS as of Mar 6, 2008. As of Feb 16th 2011, nothing seems to have changed. Check this link.
I've heard that Windows Phone 7's user interface (UI) is completely based on Silverlight. Can anybody confirm this? Or it is implemented by other frameworks?
Windows Phone 7 will support developing apps in either Silverlight or XNA.
Are you asking if the shell, etc that comes on the phone itself is written in Silverlight? My first question would be "why does it matter what Microsoft used?" It's probably a good bet that they leveraged it, but I doubt they did everything in SL. At some point they have to get down to the OS. For example, I doubt the built-in media player core or Office apps are SL.
Looking at the unlocked emulator image contents would certainly let you deduce which parts were developed with what technologies. I leave that exercise to you.
Indeed Silverlight is used for third-party apps on Windows Phone 7, plus XNA is supported too as mentioned.
However the Office apps and some first-party applications are written using the Iris framework which is an internal only developer framework similar to WPF, it is the same framework used for the Zune Software (Dorado) which is used to sync to a Windows Phone 7 device.
Yes it is based on Silverlight
I can tell you one thing, they are using Expression Blend (or a modified version of it) for parts of the core UI design. You can see the developers using this on one of their promo videos.
Is it possible to use Windows phone 7's camera in Silverlight in ANY way?
According to this post at the MSDN community forum you cannot access the camera either in Silverlight or XNA. You can ask the user to take a picture and then access that, but you cannot access the camera directly.
The only way to access the camera is CameraCaptureTask. (Note: Unfortunately I don't believe it works in the current Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP.)
There's a simple code demonstration here showing your to put the camera API to use for Windows Phone 7 apps.
Issues noted from the CTP are since resolved.
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