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Official Microsoft WP7 UI design template for app designers

by Saijo George on July 19, 2010

in News

If you are a designer and would love to put together a WP7 app UI design in photoshop, Microsoft has made it easy for you by providing a design template for Photoshop which consists of 28 PSD files and therefore includes most of the design elements used in Windows Phone 7. via istartedsomething.com

A collection of 28 layered Photoshop template files that can be used to create pixel-perfect application layouts, to help guide UI development, or to pitch an idea. These design templates showcase many controls that are a part of the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta. They also include examples of controls that are a part of Windows Phone, but are not available as a part of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. These additional templates are included to help designers and developers maintain a consistent look and feel across applications for system controls that developers wish to mimic. Templates in the download: Application Bar & Application Menu, Buttons, Check Box, Context Menu, Date Picker, Dialog Boxes, Edit Control, Hardware, Icons, Keyboard & Input, List Picker, List View, Panorama, Panorama Backgrounds, Picker Box, Pivot, Progress Indicators, Quick Jump Grid, Radio Button, Reminders, Slider, Start & App List, Start Tiles, Status Bar, Theme, Time Picker, Toast Notifications, Toggle Switch

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SlideUI updated to 1.6.0

by Saijo George on July 15, 2010

in Press Release

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SlideUI .NET CF Mobile Controls has been updated to SlideUI 1.6.0. A full demo illustrating the new release can be downloaded at http://www.devslide.com/products/slideui/download. Upgrade to SlideUI 1.6 can be downloaded at: http://support.devslide.com/my-purchases.html. You can find our review for an older version here.

Below is a list of new features, improvements and fixed issues in SlideUI version 1.6:

- Memory usage for all controls reduced and drawing speeds increased.
- In the previous release of SlideUI (1.5.3), we added support for transparency for the UILabel control. In this release, transparency support was added for UIButton, UIImageButton, UISwitch, UICheckBox, UIRadioButton, UITextBox controls.

UIPages
- Implementation of new control which allows creation of pages in design or run time.

UIListItem
- Rendering optimized. Now UIListItems appearance will be faster for items inserted into UIList in design time.

UITextBox
- TextHint property added to allow showing a hint (i.e. “Enter your name”) if text value is empty.
- Issue fixed. Previously if UITextBox control was inserted into a form in design-time, and the ‘Text’ property was set to an empty string and then the form was closed / opened, the ‘Text’ property contained default value generated by the designer (i.e. UITextBox1) instead of empty string. This issue has been corrected.

UICanvas / UIList
- Aliases added: BeginUpdate (for BeginAddControls) and EndUpdate (for EndAddControls).
- Issue fixed. Previously if UIList or UICanvas was inserted inside of another container and controls were added in design time, then these controls inside of UIList / UICanvas were invisible in run-time. This issue has been corrected.
- Issue fixed. If UICanvas contains UIGroupBox control and a user starts sliding, the caption from UIGroupBox disappears. This issue has been corrected.

UIImageButton
- Additional icon positions added: IconTopLeft, IconTopRight, IconBottomLeft, IconBottomRight.

UIPictureBox
- Issue fixed. The background image did not refresh in design-time when a new image was assigned or if the value of BackgroundImageDisplay property was changed. This issue has been corrected.

UIProgressBar
- Marquee progress bar style added (new properties: Marquee and MarqueeAnimationSpeed).

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Port your Flash games to Windows Phone 7 ??

by . Saijo on July 4, 2010

in News

So do you want port flash games to XNA according to WMPU now there is a way. Robin Debreuil has just released the Swf2XNA program to leverage your skills into WP7 games. From what I understood from the developers description Swf2XNA is an open source software that allows you to make XNA games by using Flash for assets and layout, and not an app that actually ports your Flash Games to XNA.. I might be wrong.

You might what to check the developers page for more info. The project is available for download here. Here is some documentation to help you along the way.

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Video Tutorial : Beginners guide to WP7 App Silverlight development

by . Saijo on June 22, 2010

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Lessons

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You want to develop a WP7 app and you have no idea where to begin. Ever been in that situation ? If you have this post will be a life saver. Lynda.com an online software training company is now offering video tutorials on WP7 development.

Here is what they have to say about the course :

In Windows Phone 7 App Development First Look, Joe Marini introduces the concepts and techniques behind developing Silverlight-based applications for Windows Phone 7. This course enables developers to apply their existing Silverlight programming skills and learn the fundamentals of building and debugging applications with Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone 7. The development software and accompanying phone emulator give developers an early taste of how simple it is to create custom apps. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:
* Creating application projects in Visual Studio and Expression Blend
* Adding application controls to Windows Phone pages
* Running and debugging in Visual Studio
* Testing a Windows Phone app with the Emulator
* Handling page orientation changes
* Adding an application bar
* Customizing text box input with InputScopes
* Consuming Web content with the WebBrowser control

Some of the content is available on Youtube , but for full access it looks like you need to have Paid Membership. More info

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SlideUI Mobile Controls by devslide. Helping to make WM apps look sexy!

by Cris Rowlands on June 20, 2010

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Those who have ever used a Windows Mobile device know that many of the apps available for the OS are, how should I put this… “less than attractive”, so the people over at devslide have created their own bunch of UI elements to help us spruce up our apps.

SlideUI Mobile Controls are a bunch of buttons, text boxes & other similar controls which people are used to seeing on their Windows Phone device daily, but the huge difference is they look so much more attractive. Here is a bit about my experience using SlideUI Mobile Controls in my apps.

Simple example app using slideUI controls

Simple example app using slideUI controls


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[ Developers ] [ Tutorial ] How to create a Video Player for Windows Phone 7 App

by . Saijo on June 1, 2010

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WP7 Video player

WP7 Video player


The folks from codeproject.com has put up a tutorial that explains how to create a Windows Phone 7 View Model Style Video Player. The View Model Style pattern allows a programmer to create an application that has no UI (user interface). The programmer only creates a ViewModel and a Model. A designer with no programming ability at all, is then able to create the View (UI) in Microsoft Expression Blend 4 (or higher).

Read more about it

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Resco MobileForms Toolkit will support Windows Phone 7 development

by . Saijo on May 19, 2010

in Press Release

Resco MobileForms Toolkit

Resco MobileForms Toolkit


Resco, a leading vendor of advanced developer components and tools for mobile devices, announces that it is working on a new suite of components for the application development for Windows Phone 7 Series.

The new suite of components will be based on the Resco MobileForms Toolkit — the most complete set of controls for mobile applications development targeting Microsoft Windows Mobile platform.

“When Microsoft announced new Windows Phone 7 Series, our customers were curious whether Resco plans to support the new Phone with the favorite controls,” said Radomir Vozar, Resco Developer Tools & Enterprise Division Director. “Windows Phone 7 Series is a big challenge for us and our plan is to provide developers with a complex set of components that will facilitate the development process for the new mobile platform.”

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Video Tutorial : How to get Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications

by . Saijo on May 1, 2010

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If you are looking to develop Windows Phone 7 apps using silverlight this video tutorial will help you implement the cool Page Transitions effect in your app. modern mobile applications need to not only be functional, but also stylish. Simple “snap” transitions just don’t cut it anymore.

Via channel9

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