Category Archives: winrt

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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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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Calculate distance between two Locations with Latitude and Longitude C#

Posted on November 4, 2013 by LZH

Given that you have two set of Latitude and Longitude values, how do you calculate the distance between them? For Windows Phone the below method is highly recommended since it used built-in library. However if you need the deploy the … Continue reading →

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Checking for Internet Connectivity in Windows 8 C#/winrt

Posted on October 26, 2013 by LZH

To prevent winrt app from crashing while doing web method due to the lack of Internet Connectivity, always use the below code to check for Internet Connectivity. Declaring the method in App.cs would ease the usage. Ideally the app should … Continue reading →

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