There is a good guide here: http://michaelsync.net/2010/04/06/step-by-step-tutorial-installing-multi-touch-simulator-for-silverlight-phone-7 Basically you will need to use the Multi-Touch Vista project on CodePlex available here: http://multitouchvista.codeplex.com/ and 2 mouses mice.
I’m getting the same thing.. Maybe their new update they just made doesn’t work? Found it… Update Assembly.cs with this: using System.Resources; // Add this to the top.. [assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguage(“en-US”, UltimateResourceFallbackLocation.Satellite)] This worked for me.. Cheers.. Note per Blakomen: If you are submitting an application for worldwide publishing, you should use NeutralResourcesLanguage(“en”), not just “en-US” … Read more
Yes, you can do this by disabling UserIdleDetection. Samples and more background info here. PhoneApplicationService.UserIdleDetectionMode Property (Microsoft.Phone.Shell) Idle Detection for Windows Phone
I couldn’t find any way of detecting that a Silverlight control needs to change its presentation, be it due to user interaction or animation. Controls are rendered only when the 3D scene changes because of this, and so they lack the slick look and feel of the native WP7 applications. Make something that always changes … Read more
Fast app switching is where the app is deactivated, but is not tombstoned. It now goes into a dormant state. If memory is required, the app may be tombstoned from this dormant state. If the app is activated and it is in the dormant state, it is merely activated and continues running as if nothing … Read more
You can use a checked block as pointed out already by other answers: checked { long x = 11111111111; long y = 11111111111; long z = checked(x * y); // … } Which results in an exception: OverflowException: Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow. If you are just doing a single operation where you need … Read more
Add a meta tag in you head section in you html file. <meta name=”msapplication-tap-highlight” content=”no” /> It should work.
There are lots of options: WinPhone7Db Perst SQLite (and here) siaqodb db4o Ninja Database Pro Rapid Repository Sterling Effiproz SQL Compact Edition will be coming in the “Mango” update – due later this year
Here’s a simple example: GeoCoordinateWatcher watcher; watcher = new GeoCoordinateWatcher(GeoPositionAccuracy.Default) { MovementThreshold = 20 }; watcher.PositionChanged += this.watcher_PositionChanged; watcher.StatusChanged += this.watcher_StatusChanged; watcher.Start(); private void watcher_StatusChanged(object sender, GeoPositionStatusChangedEventArgs e) { switch (e.Status) { case GeoPositionStatus.Disabled: // location is unsupported on this device break; case GeoPositionStatus.NoData: // data unavailable break; } } private void watcher_PositionChanged(object sender, GeoPositionChangedEventArgs<GeoCoordinate> … Read more
Took me a while to find this one as well System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(“Yay!”);