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Windows Phone is Microsoft's, now deprecated, mobile operating system and software development platform. Use this tag for questions specific to Version 7.x

Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform. Supported platforms for building applications for Windows Phone include Microsoft Silverlight for traditional applications and Microsoft XNA for games. This platform is no longer supported by Microsoft and should be considered obsolete.

Development on the Windows Phone platform is only supported in managed languages, using either Silverlight or XNA. With the 7.1 SDK update, Silverlight applications can be integrated with XNA.

Windows Phone 7 featured a new user interface, based upon Microsoft's Windows Phone design system, codenamed and commonly referred to as Modern UI (previous name was Metro). The home screen, called the "Start screen", is made up of "Live Tiles", which have been the inspiration for the Windows 8 live tiles.

NOTE: With the 7.1 SDK, the ID_CAP_INTEROPSERVICES capability was removed, rendering third-party support for COM interop unusable. The native (unmanaged) layer is currently only available to OEMs.

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Detect if Windows Phone 7 is connected to desktop Zune software

I've been working on a Windows Phone 7 app for a few months now and have a collection of useful detection flags that are used to test for things like if the code is running in the emulator, on a background/foreground thread, or at design time. (see…
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How to change color of button when clicked in WP7?

In WP7 whenever a button is clicked ,the background of button becomes white showing that button is clicked and becomes normal on releasing the mouse button.But I want to change the color of button selection from white to orange.How can i dot it?
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Storing a large list in isolatedStorage on WP7

I'm storing a List with around 3,000 objects in Isolatedstorage using Xml serialize. It takes too long to deserialize this and I was wondering if you have any recommendations to speed it up. The time is tolerable to deserialize up to 500 objects,…
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Change the background image of a Button when pressed using VisualStateManager

I have this button :
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Data binding in pivot TitleTemplate for Windows Phone

I must be missing something simple here...I am writing a Windows Phone 7 app and I have customized my pivot header to be the following:
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How can I check when the databinding of a list is complete? (wp7)

I have a pivot control where its item contains a listbox with items. When I scroll to the next pivot item the data binding takes some time, and I want to know when the data binding is complete because I need to enable the menu bar, as soon as the…
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WP7 Bing Map Pushpin - how to tweak the location of the custom pushpin?

Ok, simple question, but I haven't found the obviously easy answer yet! I have a Windows Phone 7 app with map integration, with a set of pushpins on the map. The pushpin is custom (just a ellipse/circle). Unfortunately, the location of the custom…
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Any way to set the WP7 Webbrowser control height Dynamically and lock scrolling?

I need to display a html string in a WebBrowser control, but it can be of variable length, and isn't the only thing on the screen. So, I need to be able to set the width corresponding to the actual content of the message. WebBrowser has the…
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ListBox ItemsSource binding working through code but not through XAML

I have this XAML: The code behind assigns the datacontext of the page to the view model: DataContext =…
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How can I playback an audio stream from a Icecast on WP7

How can I playback an audio stream from a Icecast on WP7 I have tried SMF, SmoothStreaming Client and the MediaElement. None of these have worked. The formats are either asx or and wma. Edit: Recently I found a new stream. this stream works when I'm…
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windows phone 7 picture metadata

Is there a way to read picture data such as date picture taken, filename, GPS location and other information that is stored inside the images that stored in the medialibrary?
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My page transitions looking clunky - how should I do page to page animations?

I have a an app that has several pages. When I move between pages (using the NavigationService) I have an animation that makes the text fly out - think standard WP animations or Zune Client. The animations themselves look reasonable but the…
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WP7 - Dynamically change the startup page depending on setting

Is it possible to change the startup page based on a setting in a windows phone 7 application? For example, an app with 2 pages. Lets say Movies, and News. I'd like the user to be able to select which of the 2 pages they want to be shown first…
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Find tones for several octaves of musical notes?

I am building a Windows Phone 7 app that plays musical notes. I would like to find some good .wav, .mp3, or .midi files that I can use. I've looked around, but haven't found anything. Any suggestions for where to look? I've also looked at .NET…
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Can an exception be thrown upwards

I have these two methods I am working on. One saves and one loads. Obviously both need some sort of error handling so I have implemented some "catch all handling". Now the heel of the hunt is, what happens next is contextual to where, during…
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