Using Local Database in Windows Phone Apps

In my previous posts, we looked at how to store data in Windows Phone Apps using Local Storage and Isolated Storage. In this post we will take a look at how to create a Local Database for storing data of our Windows Phone app. Database are great storage option when your app want to store… Read More »

Using Isolated Storage in Windows Phone App

In my previous post, we looked at how to use local storage in Windows phone to save the data. In this post, we will look at another way of storing the data locally using IsolatedStorage. In most of the applications that we develop, we will need some way to save ‘Settings’. IsolatedStorage is quite useful… Read More »

Working With Local Storage in Windows Phone App

In almost all the apps that are developed, some sort of data needs to be stored on the device either temporarily or permanently. There are lots of options of storing data when working on Windows Phone platform. In my earlier tutorials, we looked at how to create a simple Windows Phone app and performing page… Read More »

Performing Page Navigation in Windows Phone Apps

In the previous article, we learned the basics of creating a simple Windows Phone app. In this post, we will look at how to perform navigation between different pages in Windows Phone app. We will use the same Visual Studio solution used in the previous post and continue from there. Open the MyFirstWPApp solution in… Read More »

Getting Started With Windows Phone Development

I started developing application for the Windows Phone platform a few months ago. There are a lot of things i learned along the way and i want to share all that with you through a series of blog posts. In the current post, we will focus on the basic and will develop a very simple… Read More »

Windows Phone 8.1 Hands On

Microsoft recently released Windows Phone 8.1 as a developer preview for Developer Unlocked phones. Anyone having a developer unlocked phone can install the OS update and get to try out the new features. I installed it on my Lumia 520 and here are some of the new features which are worth mentioning. New Features Cortana… Read More »

Using ASP.Net WebAPI with Web Forms

Asp.Net WebAPI is a framework for building RESTful HTTP services which can be used across a wide range of clients including web, phone and desktop applications. With WebAPI we can use XML and JSON to send and retrieve data from the service. The use of Json or XML makes it quite flexible to be used… Read More »

Calling ASP.Net WebAPI using HttpClient

In this post, we are going to learn how to call an ASP.Net WebAPI using HttpClient libraries. The HttpClient Library is quite useful and can be used while calling your WebAPI from Windows applications, Console Applications or even Windows 8 applications. We will use the same WebAPI which we created in my previous post “Using… Read More »

Store Images in SQL Server

In the following Post, we will look at how to save images in SQL server.  We will then read the image from the Sql Server and will render it on our page using a Http Handler. First we will create a Database in Sql Server called ImageDB . Below are the table and stored procedure… Read More »