windows phone How to extract version number for your WP7 app from assembly information Pretty straightforward, but just in case.. Here is the snippet: public string GetAppVersion() { var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); var name = assembly.FullName; var nameComponents = name.Split(','); if (nameComponents.Length >= 2) { var versionComponent
async Task Commands revisited Half a year ago I blogged about using TPL with MVVM in a test-friendly way. My solution turned out to be pretty handy, though it was far from being perfect. In this post
late reader Secondary tile backward compatibility Just in several hours after LateReader v.1.2 being published, I received an error report saying that “No XAML found at the location XXX”. Wait, but that’s an old URI, used
sql server ce Saving your time: how to work with large reference databases on WP7 In the previous post I showed how to load the large SQL Server CE database on WP7. However, if you are working with a read-only reference database, deploying it to the phone or
sql server ce Loading large SQL Server CE databases on WP7 Recently I ran into an issue when trying to load the large database (approx. 50 mb) from isolated storage on WP7. Whenever I tried to query the Data Context, I got the following
rx Building cool animated tiles with Rx I have a small WP7 project called Summarize. It is a fun math-based game (check it out for free). It has a nice effect of loading tiles. Several people has asked me how