Here is great presentation which can give you clear idea about differences in Windows Store Apps vs Windows Phone. Top 10 Differences between developing Windows Phone and Store apps from Morten Nielsen
I am going to list few most annoying Errors XAML designer throws to me and hope you find right solution. Most likely by this time you have already gone though your error list many times and scratching your head.. why …
Recently I had very frustrating error and I thought I must blog it to save someone else time. I used MediaElement in Windows Phone to play audio files (*.mp3 in my case). Suddenly one of my change broke it and …
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I recently tried to create sample data by hand for XAML Designer. If you don’t know what is sample data used for then read this article Its really pain to type all properties of ViewModel class specially if you have …
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XAML designer is full of surprise so get ready for Binging … When you get below error then just remove Default constructor with InitializeComponent() call and everything will be fine. When I had UserControl on my main Windows Phone Project I …
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Recently I encountered odd error and I had no clue what this error means. After doing some BINGing I found that its related to empty elements. Unexpected NONE in parse rule ElementBody ::= ATTRIBUTE* ( PropertyElement | Content )* . …
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I recently had very strange issue and I felt almost lost. With windows phone project I was keep getting ‘System.IO.FileNotFoundException’ at some point after application is launched in Emulator (or Device). However My Build was successful. What I noticed that …
Windows Phone XAP missing dll and Emulator Error ‘System.IO.FileNotFoundException’ Read more »
If you try to define DoubleAnimation on Projection property then you will see lot of challenge. Here is How to fix. First make sure you create Name Attribute on Projection property like below for whatever UI element you want animate. …
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If you ever noticed then every FrameworkElement in WPF has property called Projection This property is very powerful if you use it right way. You can give 3D effect of any UI including Images in WPF/Silverlight Here is sample code …
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In this post I want to share snippet which shows simple technique to implement multiple transformations on same object. You will notice that in order to achieve this I have used TransformationGroup along with StoryBoard and DoubleAnimation private void Rotate_Click(object …
XAML Animation – How to Scale and Rotate Object (Multiple Transformations) Read more »