In this post we will take a look at how to call a web service from a Windows Phone 8 app and retrieve data in JSON format. We will be calling a simple REST web service from our sample application to retrieve the latest weather information and display the same. Web Service We will be… Read More »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »