Background Agents and Scheduled Tasks allows your application to execute to code in the background even when the application is not running in the foreground. This is quite useful in various type of scenarios where you want to update the Live Tile frequently, show a toast notification on getting some data from web service, perform… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »