Category Archives: Windows Phone

Saving UI element as jpeg for Windows Phone 8.1

Posted on October 21, 2015 by LZH

This is an follow-up of the Drawing pad for Windows Phone 8.1 Assume that the content that is needed to save into jpeg is in a scrollviewer, the below would be the implementation on saving the content. It works for most … Continue reading →

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Drawing pad for Windows Phone 8.1

Posted on June 24, 2015 by LZH

Many had asked on how do we create a drawing pad for Windows Phone 8.1. It is very simple, in fact the code to get it done is exactly the same as that for Windows 8.1 In the xaml, you … Continue reading →

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Adding Custom font for Pivot Header

Posted on June 2, 2014 by LZH

If you would want to have custom font for the pivot header, you would have to declare the fontfamily separately as shown below in the sample otherwise the displayed font will remain the same. However if the custom font that … Continue reading →

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Hide Silverlight Chart Control Legend

Posted on May 12, 2014 by LZH

Use the xaml code below to hide the Silverlight Chart Control Legend.

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Emulator couldn’t determine the host IP address

Posted on April 20, 2014 by LZH

If you encountered the the error “Emulator couldn’t determine the host IP address” when trying to debug windows phone app in the emulator. You may try to head over to Network Connection and ensure that “vEthernet (Internal Ethernet Port Windows … Continue reading →

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await MessageDialog in the body of a catch clause

Posted on March 30, 2014 by LZH

A major disadvantage of using MessageDialog is that you need to await it to show the messagebox and when often you would need to display error messages in the catch clause. In normal situation you would be doing the below: … Continue reading →

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Checking for Internet Connection

Posted on March 14, 2014 by LZH

In my previous post where I had shared about checking for Network Connectivity, NetworkInterface.GetIsNetworkAvailable(), however what the method is actually doing is to simple check for network connection and not necessary internet connection. There are situation where there is network … Continue reading →

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Using Google Analytics to your Windows Phone Apps

Posted on December 4, 2013 by LZH

For developers that would like to track the usage of your Windows Phone app that are in the marketplace. Google Analytics is actually a decent choice given that setting up is fairly easy. Simply head over to http://www.google.com/analytics/ and login … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone IP over USB Transport (IpOverUsbSvc) is not running. Retry after starting Windows Phone IP over USB Transport (IpOverUsbSvc) from the services management console.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by LZH

If you encounter the below error message while developing app for Windows Phone. Error Message: “Windows Phone IP over USB Transport (IpOverUsbSvc) is not running. Retry after starting Windows Phone IP over USB Transport (IpOverUsbSvc) from the services management console.” … Continue reading →

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Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path ”, line 0, position 0.

Posted on November 18, 2013 by LZH

You may encounter “Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0." when trying to parse Json result that are downloaded from the WebClient method if the data is compressed in GZip. This is because WebClient … Continue reading →

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