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3 Ways to update the Application Tile Content in Mango

Introduction

Have you ever wondered how to update the Application Tile in your Windows Phone 7 Mango application? Me too. But before we dig in, let’s look at the properties of a Tile.

 

Microsoft defines each one as listed below:

• Title. A string indicating the title of the application. The Title must fit on a single line of text and should not be wider than the actual Tile. Approximately 15 characters will fit in the title before being truncated.

• BackgroundImage. An image displayed on the front of the Tile. We recommend that you always have a background image on the front of the Tile.

• Count (also known as Badge). An integer value from 1 to 99. If the value of Count is not set or it is set to 0, the circle image and value will not display in the Tile.

• BackTitle. A string displayed at the bottom of the back of a Tile. The BackTitle must fit on a single line of text and should not be wider than the actual Tile. Approximately 15 characters will fit in the title before being truncated.

• BackBackgroundImage. An image displayed on the back of the Tile.

• BackContent. A string displayed in the body of the back of a Tile. Approximately 40 characters will fit in the Tile before being truncated

(images taken from MSDN overview)

 

Let’s get started.

What we are going to focus on today is the three ways to update the Application Tile.

1) The first way is pretty weak as you can only change two options. The Title and the Background Image. If you right click on the project and go to Properties then you will see that you can set the Title and Background image.

If you run this, it’s pretty boring stuff:

2) The second option is much much better as it allows you to modify all the properties by the use of the WMAppManifest.xml. If you create a new Windows Phone 7 Mango Application and head straight to the Properties –> WMAppManifest.xml then you will see the following:

If you run the app and pin it to the start screen in the emulator then you should see something like this:

Pretty standard stuff right? Well, let’s change the count and title of the Application Tile by heading back to the WMAppManifest.xml and changing the Count and Title to the following:

After you deploy it again and “Pin to start” then it should be updated as shown below. We could have changed the background image, but for now the default will do.

But that’s not all we can do. If we type a “<” after the last </Title> then it bring up other options as shown below.

Let’s play with a few of these real quick.

Now if we deploy it again and give it a few seconds, the Application Tile will flip over and reveal the information we just set for the back tile.

One other thing to note before we leave this section is that Comments work just fine in the WMAppManifest.xml file.

3) The third way that we can change the Application Tile content is through code.

ShellTile firstTile = ShellTile.ActiveTiles.First();
var newData = new StandardTileData()
{
    Title = "MichaelCrump.Net",
    BackgroundImage = new Uri("background.png", UriKind.Relative),
    Count = 6,
    BackContent = "New BackContent",
    BackTitle = "New BackTitle",
    BackBackgroundImage = new Uri("background.png", UriKind.Relative),
};

// Update the default tile
firstTile.Update(newData);

If we go ahead and run our application now and trigger this code, through a Click event or whatever. Then we will see our Application Tile has updated:

and when the tile flips it looks like this:

Conclusion

As you can see it is pretty easy to update the Application Tile. The one thing to remember about updating the Application Tile is that your content will wrap and it is best to use one to two words if possible. We will look at creating Live tiles in the next part of this series. Thanks for reading and have a great day.

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Posted On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 6:03 AM | Feedback (0)

Who says Silverlight can’t run on a tablet?

Introduction:

One of the concerns that I keep hearing from customers is, “We can’t deploy Silverlight because it won’t run on a tablet.” I usually reply to that question stating, “What do you mean it can’t run on a tablet?” They usually looked puzzled and say, “You mean Silverlight *CAN* run on a tablet?” Yes, there are many devices that Silverlight can run on.

Today we are going to take a look at the Motion CL900 Tablet.

FYI: I have no affiliation with Motion Computing.

Why this tablet?

When I first started looking at this tablet, I noticed something different. This device is targeting your customers in real-world scenarios. Other tablets, show a young teenager or someone with head phones on listening to music. This is fine if that is your customer, but my customers are not interested in a music player or gaming. They want a device that will help their business problems. 

Specs of the Tablet

This is not a weak tablet and is very capable of providing a solid computing experience with Silverlight. Here are a few key points that I want to mention:

• Starting around $899. – Cheap enough for a enterprise solution.
• Windows 7 Professional
• Wifi a/b/g/n
• 1GB Ram with 2GB available
• 32GB SSD with 62GB available

Let’s dive deeper into this and see what is available for those wishing to deploy Silverlight Applications with Tablets.

I can hear all the Jerry Maguire’s out there. So, you told us about a tablet and how you can use Silverlight to deploy touch-screen applications. Show us someone who has done it because our boss isn't buying it. 

Rooms To Go did it and they have a case study plus video to prove it.

“Rooms To Go engaged the services of Microsoft Partner Network member Wintellect to build a touch-sensitive point-of-sale system that sales associates could use throughout the store when interacting with customers. The system runs on slate PCs, portable devices that have no lid or keyboard hardware and are slim, lightweight, and easy to carry. The slate PCs run the Windows 7 operating system, have an estimated battery life of eight hours, and are designed to replace fixed kiosks. Rooms To Go has increased its competitiveness with a modern tool that serves as a one-stop access point for store information. The company’s new point-of-sale system makes for a shorter and more efficient sales cycle and improves the customer experience.”

Important Links related to the Study:

Rooms2Go Study located here: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000010773

They even posted a video of it available here: http://mediadl.microsoft.com/mediadl/www/c/casestudies/Files/4000010773/RoomsToGo_MediaFile.wmv

Why didn’t Rooms To Go go with another tablet?

1. They didn’t want to use the other device because of security concerns.
2. The inability to integrate with their existing Windows-based software.
3. Windows based tablet would integrate with their existing security infrastructure.
4. Using Silverlight allowed them to keep in house expertise for the project.

What software will help me write Silverlight Touch Screen applications?

I will only recommend 2 as they are what I have played with.

1. Lighttouch

   http://lighttouch.codeplex.com/ is a reusable library that provides Multi-Touch support for Silverlight applications by via Manipulations, Gestures, and specialized Behaviors and controls.

   
   The Wintellect Silverlight Touch Library has been developed to augment the limited out-of-the-box support available for Touch interactions in the current releases of Silverlight.  These enhancements include:

   • Attaching Manipulation events to controls in XAML markup via attached Behaviors.
   • Higher-level Gesture support via attached behaviors.  This has been implemented to provide parity with the Gesture implementation included in the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit.
   • Attached Behaviors that allow controls that contain a ScrollViewer (such as the ListBox) to respond to touch-based scrolling.  This includes the use of inertia in the scrolling.
   • A specialized ComboBox implementation that also incorporates the smooth scrolling, but does not close the popup as a result of the conclusion of the Touch operation.
2. Multitouch

   http://multitouch.codeplex.com/ is another one that may help you. It is several Silverlight / Windows Phone Behaviors and WPF samples implementing Multi-Touch Manipulation (Gestures) and Inertia.

   A demo is available here: http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/MultiTouch/

How about a Sample Tablet Application built using Silverlight?

OK, so you have told us about a tablet and showed us open-source software that will help implement it. How about a sample tablet application as well as slides? Well, you are in luck because Jeremy Likness uploaded the slide deck along with the sample applications and source code from his talk at ReMix South about tablet development with Silverlight.

The video has been posted of his talk and you can see it here: http://www.vimeo.com/28129968.

You can view his complete article here: http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com/2011/08/tablet-development-with-microsoft.html

Work through a lab by Microsoft to reinforce your knowledge.

This hands-on lab walks through the creation of a multi-touch image browser application. First, you will implement drop target functionality to load images and create a context menu. Then you will handle multi-touch events allowing you to arrange and rotate images.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg315167

Download The Offline Training Kit
Download Hands-on Lab Document (DOCX)
Download Hands-on Lab Document (PDF)
Download Hands-on Lab Source Files

Other Great Resources:

Consumerization of IT and Silverlight Line of Business.

Multitouch Part 4: Multitouch in Silverlight 

The last two links are slightly outdated resources, but drive the point home what you can do.

Multi-Touch 101 with Silverlight 

Multi-Touch Introduction Fundamentals 

A few other Windows 7 Tablets

Just so you are aware, there are other great Windows 7 Tablets available for purchase. I have included the specs where you can see what fits your customers need more easily.

MSI Windpad 100 Key features: • 10-inch display • Windows 7 Home Premium • Multi-Touch • Intel's (INTC) Oak Trail Atom Processor • 2GB of RAM • 32GB SSD • SIM card slot • 8 hours of battery life • Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a 3G module will be on some versions • 2 USB ports • 1.7 lbs • Web camera • HDMI port • Price: $499	Asus Eee Pad EP121 Key features: • 12-inch display • Windows 7 Home Premium • High Resolution Touch Sensitive Screen • Multi-Touch • CUL V Intel Core 2 Duo Processor • 2GB of DDR2 RAM • 32, 64 or 128GB SSD • 10 hours of battery life • Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G • USB ports • 1.3 megapixel Web camera • 1.48 lbs • Memory and SIM card slots • HDMI port • Headphone/Mic Jacks • Price: $1,000	Pegatron Masterpad Key features: • 11.6-inch display • Windows 7 Home Premium • Multi-Touch • Intel Atom N450 processor • 2GB RAM • 32 or 64GB SSD • 5 hours of battery life • Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G • 2 USB ports • 1.3 megapixel Web camera • 2.18 lbs • Memory card slot • mini-HDMI port • Price: Not available	Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) HP Slate Key features: • 8.9-inch display • Windows 7 Home Premium • Multi-Touch • 1.6-GHz Intel Z530 Atom processor • 1GB of DDR2 RAM • 32GB or 64GB SSD • 5 hours of battery life • Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and optional 3G • USB ports • Front and rear Web cameras • 1.49 lbs • Memory and SIM card slots • HDMI port • Headphone/Mic Jacks • Price: $549 for 32GB model, $599 for 64GB model
Hanvon TouchPad B10 Key features: • 10.1-inch display • Windows 7 Home Premium • Multi-Touch • 1.3GHz Intel Celeron ULV processor • 2GB of DDR2 RAM • 250GB hard drive • 3.5 hours of battery life • Connectivity: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. 3G connectivity not included • 2 USB ports • 1.3 megapixel Web camera • 1.98 lbs • Memory and SIM card slot • Mini HDMI port • Headphone/Mic Jacks • Price: $974	ExoPC Slate (Manufactured by Pegatron) Key features: • 11.6-inch display • Windows 7 Home Premium • Multi-Touch • 1.66 GHz Intel Atom Pineview-M N450 • 2GB of DDR2 RAM • 32GB or 64GB SSD • 4 hours of battery life • Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G card slot • 2 USB ports • 1.3 megapixel Web camera • 2.09 lbs • Memory and SIM card slots • HDMI port • Headphone/Mic Jacks • Price: $624 (32GB model), $724 (64GB model)	ViewSonic ViewPad 100 Key features: • 10-inch display • Windows 7 Home Premium (it's a dual-boot device that also runs Android 1.6) • Multi-Touch • 1.66Ghz Intel Atom N455 processor • 1GB DDR3 RAM • 16GB SSD, can expand to 32GB using the MicroSD slot • 4.5 hours of battery life • Connectivity: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. 3G connectivity not included • 2 USB ports • 1.3 megapixel Web camera • 1.9 lbs • SIM card slot • VGA port • Headphone/Mic Jacks • Price: $845

Conclusion

As you can tell from this post, there are several great tablets that can run a Silverlight application. Thankfully, we have a case study along with free open-source software and plenty of sample applications for reference. I hope this post at least sheds some light on tablet development with Silverlight. If you have any questions then feel free to ping me on twitter or email. You should also follow Jeremy Likness as he is the one really pushing this message home. You can also check out his blog here: http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com/

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Posted On Thursday, August 25, 2011 6:47 AM | Feedback (4)

Slides / Code / Resources for my OData Talk at devLINK 2011.

On August 19th 2011 I gave a presentation at devLINK titled, “Producing and Consuming OData in an Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Application”. As promised, here is the Slides / Code / Resources to my talk.

Slides – The query slide in this deck was taken from a slide in Mike Taulty’s talk.

This is the first time that I used Prezi in a talk and it worked out wonderful! I want to apologize in advance for embedding a flash player in my blog. It is all that Prezi supports at this time. =(

Producing and Consuming OData in an Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. on Prezi

Free Tools

Silverlight OData Explorer – Special Thanks to Adam Ryder for bringing it up.

Odata Viewer Tool

Articles

You can read any of the parts by clicking on the links below.

1. Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 1) – Creating our first OData Data Source and querying data through the web browser and LinqPad.
2. Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 2) – Consuming OData in a Silverlight Application.
3. Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 3)  – Consuming OData in a Windows Phone 7 Application (pre-Mango).
4. Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 4)  – Consuming OData in a Windows Phone 7 Application (Mango).

e-Book:

The e-Book is available on SilverlightShow.net. It includes a .PDF/.DOC/.MOBI of the series with high resolution graphics and complete source code. See below for a table of contents:

Contents:

Chapter 1

Creating our first OData Data Source.
Getting Setup (you will need…)
Conclusion

Chapter 2

Adding on to our existing project.
Conclusion

Chapter 3

Testing the OData Data Service before getting started…
Downloading the tools…
Getting Started
Conclusion

Chapter 4

Testing and Modifying our existing OData Data Service
Reading Data from the Customers Table
Adding a record to the Customers Table
Update a record to the Customers Table
Deleting a record from the Customers Table
Conclusion

Thanks to all for attending my talk and I hope to see you all next year.

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Posted On Sunday, August 21, 2011 7:38 AM | Feedback (0)

2 Good Reasons to update to the latest Mango Beta 2 Refresh Update

So, you grabbed the latest Mango Build and installed it on your phone. Now your probably thinking, Why should I update to the latest Mango Beta 2 Refresh? Well, I will give you two good reasons. 

• New Screen Shot Tool built into the Emulator
• Marketplace Test Kit

Screen Shot Tool

You may be thinking, there are a hundred ways to take a screen shot. I personally used SnagIt, but this involved a lot of steps.

1. Load up SnagIt.
2. Make sure my Emulator was visible.
3. Click the “Capture Button” in SnagIt.
4. Resize the Image to the proper dimension for the MarketPlace.
5. Save the file as a .PNG for the MarketPlace.

Now, Microsoft has made this much easier.

Fire up your WP7 project and run it. After the emulator loads then click on the >> button and you will see “Additional Tools”. A new tab is located called “Screenshot”. If you click the Capture button then the image will display in the preview window below as shown.

Go ahead and click the “Save” button.

Now if you examine the file that it saved then you will see it is now in .PNG format.

You can now click the properties and see the proper width and height are set for you.

At this point, the image is ready for the marketplace.

NOTE: The only thing I wish was added to this functionality was a way to “Capture” multiple images and save them all at once. Right now the Screenshot tool will only allow one at a time.

Marketplace Test Tool

Before we get started, let me answer the question. “What is it?” The Marketplace Test Kit provides test cases that help prepare your application for the Marketplace submission process. These test do not guarantee a pass, but will surely help increase your chances.

Let’s get started:

If you right click on your project, then you will notice a new option called “Open Marketplace Test Kit”.

NOTE: If you have a pre-Mango WP7 project, then you will need to upgrade it first before seeing this option.

The first thing to check is to look at the bottom of your screen for this message.

If you see it then you will definitely want to go ahead and click Update. VS2010 will let you know when it’s ready.

Once updated, you should be on the “Application Details” screen.

Now you just click the browse button under each one and it will verify your image is the proper dimension. 

Next up is, “Automated Tests”. This is an easy one as all you have to do is simply click the “Run Tests” button.

But let me warn you that if your project is not set to “Release” then you will get the following errors.

Click “Release” from the dropdown and then click the “Run Tests” button again.

Next up is the “Monitored Tests”. You will want to click “Start Application” and then the emulator will load your project and you just need to interact with the application.

Last is “Manual Tests”. As the name states this is a manual process that the developer will need to do by him / her self.

Conclusion:

As you can see developing for the WP7 is only getting easier. With more and more improvements with each release. I hope you found this post helpful.

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Posted On Saturday, August 13, 2011 1:04 PM | Feedback (1)

Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data.

Introduction

One of the things that I recently had someone show me was using the “Copy Xaml” feature in  Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. I later found out that this was demoed at MIX11 in a session called HTML5 for Silverlight Developers. So with that said, I don’t take credit for discovering this, just documenting it for others to use.

If you want to see the final product then click here. Go ahead and right click on the page and you will see it’s just path data (no image – just straight up html).

Let’s Get Started

1) Fire up Microsoft Expression Design 4

2) Create a New Document (Hitting CTRL-N)

3) Draw Something Cool. (Yes, I’m a big fan of the Dark Knight)

4) Hit CTRL-A to select Everything

5) Click Edit-> Copy Xaml.

6) Go ahead and open something like Notepad2 and paste what is in your clipboard.

7) You now want to clean this up a bit. The only parts we are interested in keeping is the path data starting with M as shown below. Go ahead and remove everything else in Red.

8) And ending with the Z from the Path Statement. Again, remove the part in Red below.

9) Now that we have one continuous line of points, let’s drop that into the path of a HTML5 SVG as shown below:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Expression Web and HTML5</title>
</head>
<body>
    <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">

    <path fill="black" d="M 218.806,168.146C 218.02,167.674 217.049,168.699 216.14,168.812C 215.258,168.922 214.362,168.812 
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10) Now load the page into a browser and you will get the following. You can test this in a browser by going here:

Conclusion:

That was pretty easy to do and only took about 5 minutes. There are a lot of things you can do with path data as sometimes it is easier to drop in path data instead of add an image to a project. I hope you found this post helpful.

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