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Read original post by Anton Polhovskiy at The Windows Phone Development Blog

Many people are doing it in totally different ways: they are creating a content control on the page and add style with progress bar, other are creating some super-code to perform this simple task. With mango release, developers achieved a great opportunity – the have an access to system tray. This was the first ring, that helped me to decide to create a totally global progress bar that will be displayed by means of the system. When you think about this task, it is becoming quite obvious how to do this thing, but let’s start from the beginning.

Read original post by Pam Keesey at Expression IQ

This is the first of a series of articles that shows you how to build a fuel tracking application using Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone.

You can download the sample files for the Fuel Tracker application to use as you follow along with the procedures in this series.

This series is based on “Developing a Windows Phone Application from Start to Finish,” a tutorial for creating a Windows Phone app using Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone.

Where appropriate, links to related resources from the Windows Phone Design Guide will be available to give you more information about certification requirements, design tips, and best practice guideline.

Read original post by Joost van Schaik at .NET by Example

Since I am a very lazy programmer and I not always want to register or define services and whatnot for showing a simple message I created this extremely simple behavior for showing a MessageBox from a ViewModel. I wrote the code for Windows Phone 7, but I suppose it could be used in Silverlight as well.

Here is the new SilverlightShow content for Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012.

• Integrating LightSwitch Into An ASPNET Application To Provide Single Sign On
• Wrap Layout + UI Virtualization = RadDataBoundListBox for Windows Phone
• Async CTP – Task based asynchronous programming for Windows Phone
• Learn Windows Phone Development in 31 Days, Day 22 – Working with Device Information in WP7
• Programmatically Uninstalling Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Application
• “Wallpaper Downloader” - My First WP7 Application in the Marketplace
• Win a Pluralsight 30 Day Subscription by Sharing Information About Your Favorite Windows Phone App!
• Setup and Product Search in Windows Phone
• Getting the Windows Phone Blog Rolling with Image Zooming
• The Last Silverlight Post – Coming Out of the Closet
• Construct XAML Forms at Runtime with Resource Files
• How to crash other WP7 applications?
• Video: Building a Windows Phone Game with the Farseer Physics Engine

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Read original post by Michael Washington at LightSwitch Help Website

The LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com is an ASP.NET Web Application that currently has four LightSwitch applications integrated into it (you can access them from the DEMOS tab). The integration means that a user will have Single-Sign-On between the ASP.NET Website and the LightSwitch application. This integration has been covered in the article: Easy DotNetNuke LightSwitch Deployment.

However, it may be helpful to cover the steps for integration using a simple ASP.NET Web Application rather than a large complex application such as the DotNetNuke application that the LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com uses.

Read original post by Deyan Ginev at The Telerik Blogs

The standard Silverlight for Windows Phone ListBox, as many of you already now, can be easily tuned to use a different Items Panel from the standardized Stack Panel. This is a really very powerful feature that many of pointed out was missing in RadDataBoundListBox. Since the WrapPanel is another commonly used layout panel in the ListBox context, many of you asked for similar feature in RadDataBoundListBox provided that it further extends to supporting the powerful UI virtualization approach that we already use in our control.

Read original post at Kevin Ashley's Blog

Asynchronous programming is super-interesting especially today, with responsiveness required by all modern devices. In the context of Windows Phone 7, Async CTP Version 3 was released last year, and it’s compatible with SDK 7.1, Silverlight 5 and Roslyn CTP. Our takeaways today is using async in the context of Windows Phone 7, understanding TAP (task based asynchronous programming). I’ll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes: we’ll go beyond basics to exceptions, cancellations, progress, switching threads, combinators and even re-entrancy.

Read original post by Karthikeyan Anbarasan at F5 Debug

In this article we are going to see how to get the Device information for managing the device. We will see how to make use of the Device detection API’s available with the Windows Phone 7 SDK to detect the Device information, Memory detection, Keyboard installed or not etc with the API.

Read original post at Sergio Loscialo's Blog

Every once in a while there comes a need to provide a mechanism to uninstall your application programmatically. For Silverlight Out-Of-Browser applications , there seemed to be no way to accomplish it. Fortunately, there’s a work-around that trusted OOB applications running in Windows can use.

Silverlight OOB applications are launched via the “sllauncher.exe” command. And if you open the properties on an OOB shortcut, you will see a target textbox with something like:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Silverlight\sllauncher.exe" 2205248641.localhost