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The long waited for SDK, At last
Download the facebookSDK for .net developers, supporting Windows Phone and Windows 8.
Now Facebook application development has become a piece of cake on Microsoft platforms.
Support Egypt–#windowsphonecamp
I’m at Windows Phone Camp. for the conference competition, I chose to submit my idea as a windows phone application to support egypt.
In this application, People can submit ideas to support egypt , either in healthcare, economy or education. People have votes for these ideas. People also can donate through the phone application using online payments, they can choose to support either healthcare , economy or education. According to the available fund, decided by the charity admins, all funds in each category go to implement the top voted 5 ideas in each category. The app is integrated with facebook to ensure Cause distribution using the wide network viral marketing concept, collecting a bigger amount if ideas, besides having a better distribution for the free app .
The app idea can be tweaked to be used for whatever fundraising / charity / support ideas program.
Support my idea by rating at http://www.codevnext.com/apps/479
Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook
I ‘ve recently read “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” . The book covers different database related alternatives in a chapter to chapter basis. You can read what you want without having to read the book from cover to cover. Chapters discuss different topics without being dependent on each other’s.
The book mainly targets experienced Windows Phone developers. The book aims at boosting your mobile database development skills. If you are not familiar with programming C#.net, Silverlight and other necessary development skills , then, you have to check some extra books too for the basics. But if you have been writing some Windows Phone applications and had some hard times with the database stuff, then you are in the right place.
The book uses the latest updates in Windows Phone 7.1 SDK that enable developers write applications for the latest version Windows Phone 7.5
The book discusses new stuff like Twitter , Atom and RSS, and mobile specific database connections using JSON, also the conventional powerful SQLite. and SQLCE . LINQ to SQL and ADO.net.
There are some examples using REST and WCF and the new Model View View Model (MVVM ).
The book uses a simple coding style, straight and to the point, without confusing the reader with complex code that doesn’t add a value. After having hands on every topic separately, at the end of each chapter, you have a sum-up sample app where you combine all the knowledge you gained in the chapter in one single app to see how things fit together in the big picture.
The book also uses examples that can be implemented in the real world, so you learn fast, improve your skills, and you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
Although the book is great in discussing the different data alternatives, it should have made a comparison between the different alternatives and discussing pros and cons of each using different case studies showing when to use each alternative rather than another.
Overall: that is a really good book. You can download a sample chapter from the book here.
Windows Phone Data Programming..
I found a nice book about Windows Phone data programming..
There is a sample chapter available here for download.
I ‘ll be reviewing this book in the next few weeks.
Orientation in Windows Phone 7
Orientation support is one of the new features on Windows Phone 7.
By default, when you code your applications it is not supported.
If you try to rotate the axis you get this !!
To solve this problem , you need to set the Suppored Orientation property for the application to PortraitOrLanscape
Things will then work fine
Tamer Maher 