windows phone - A Developer's Musings

Quickly Generate Design Time Data for Windows Phone

Generating sample / design data for your XAML view. It took me a bit of playing around to remember exactly how, so I decided to document the steps.

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Binding a ListPicker to an Enum

A common thing I find myself doing when using the MVVM pattern within Windows Phone development is binding an Enum to a list picker. Recently I took some time to expand my libraries to help with this.

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Localization of Windows Phone App Settings

I figure I should make the default value equal to whatever the current user's regional default is. This turned out to be much easier than I had expected.

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Windows Phone Emulator Hotkey Resources

After becoming more serious about Windows Phone development I started digging into articles, books and other resources. Here are some great shortcuts I learned along the way, all I wish I would have known about sooner.

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Work around for the Unreliable GetGeopositionAsync()

My first application I developed for Windows Phone 8 relied heavily on the phone's current location, but I didn't need to track the location at all times. Naturally I tried to use the GeoLocator.GetGeopositionAsync() method found in all the documentation. However, I was