This post is a continuation of the first part (here) on Updating the underlying data behind an OData service. So, we continue from where we left off. We have a SQL Azure table called “Team” which has its data exposed as an OData service. This can obviously be read easily by various clients; but what [...]
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Updating OData data source from WP7 .. Part 2
Posted: July 24, 2011 in Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: Azure, OData, WP7Dev
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Updating OData data source from WP7 .. Part 1
Posted: July 24, 2011 in Azure Goodness, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: Azure, OData, WCF, WP7Dev
This will be a longish post .. you have been warned I think OData is rather cool .. head over (here) to learn more, if you haven’t already. There is nothing proprietary about it; just culmination of existing technologies of HTTP, AtomPub and Json to provide a platform independent way of sharing information. As I [...]
Styling local HTML for WebBrowser display
Posted: July 12, 2011 in Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: HTML, WP7Dev
Recently I had to work on a cross-platform mobile app, meant for internal use in our company. The iOS & Android versions were ready to ship; Windows Phone 7 just could not lag behind. It was mostly static content (lots of it) to display and centralization of data was important for content updates. Even before [...]
Another cloud enabled WP7 Wx app .. Part Trois: The Cloud Service
Posted: July 3, 2011 in Azure Goodness, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: notifications, WP7Dev
This post is a continuation of Part 1 (here) & Part 2 (here) of the series on setting up a cloud-enabled Weather app for Windows Phone. By now, we have a fully working Windows Phone app which allows the user to pull up weather forecasts for any city of their choice. We also Push Enabled [...]
Another cloud enabled WP7 Wx app .. Part Deux: The Live Tiles
Posted: June 28, 2011 in Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: notifications, WP7Dev
This post is a continuation of Part 1 of the series (here). So, we now have a basic Weather app that allows the user to look up live weather & a little forecast for his/her selected city. But, what good is that, unless we can pin the app to the start screen & then get [...]
Another cloud enabled WP7 Wx app .. Part Un: The Phone Client
Posted: June 27, 2011 in Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: WP7Dev
June 2010. I decide that one of the first WP7 apps I should do is surely a weather app. And with the whole “It’s not Sunny & 73” jab against the iPhone weather app, one just had to have cloud support for “glance & go” weather, right? . Then, after Windows Phone launched, I took [...]
