Making a phone call with your Windows Phone 7 App Calling a phone number from your App is really easy. You just need a text field (in our case: txtTelephone) with the value of the number you want to call.
To define an individual style for your pushpins add the following code (created with Microsoft Expression Blend) to your App.xaml:
To promote your App in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace you will need Screenshots of your App. As Windows Phone 7 does not yet provide the functionality of creating screenshots on your phone we think that this application is the perfect solution: http://www.innovativetechguy.com/?p=13 The WP7 Screenshot Tool offers you the possibility to take screenshots of [...]
Since Windows Phone 7 has been published, nearly everyone is impressed of the Metro-Design and moreover of the pretty animated page transistions between two pages in one App. Of course we wanted such cool stuff too. So we were looking for an easy way to implement this nice feature into our own PowerHour-App.
As we wanted our Phone 7 App not only to be perfect in function but also in style, we were looking for a way to find out if the user is using the dark or the light theme. Searching for an answer we came across an easy solution for our problem:
As we startet developing an App for Windows Phone 7 we came across some simple questions we couldn’t easily find an answer for: What is ApplicationIcon.png used for? ApplicationIcon.png is similar to AppIcon.png on the iPhone. This image is used as icon for your app when the user views a list of his apps. What [...]