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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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Popup Take Up the Full Screen WP7

How do I make a Popup take up the full width and height of the screen? I don't want to set explicit height and width of 480x800.
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How to record screen on Windows Phone 7 as a video?

Does anyone know of a good way to record an application being used on Windows Phone 7 that includes markers as to where on the screen it is being touched?
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Using a MySQL database on Windows Phone 7?

I'm attempting to write a Windows Phone 7 application which needs to connect to a remote data source, in this case it's a MySQL database on a Linux server. I'm not able to move this over to MSSQL, nor to build any kind of windows-based solution…
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What's the control used in Kindle for Windows Phone 7

I was wondering what kind of control Amazon has used to display text in their application for Windows Phone 7 ? It must be some kind of custom ones because if I remember correctly there's not support for FlowDocument, Run etc in WP7.
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Windows phone 7 messageBox sound

Is there any way to disable the sound that sounds when a messageBox shows?
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GeoLocation for all Mobile/Desktop Devices

I'm using gears.js and geo.js in an attempt to cover all grounds, in terms of finding the user's geolocation. So if the user is using something less than IE9, I would possibly prompt install for Google Gears, so I know for desktop, IE7 + is…
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How to best add popup to visual tree when using MVVM on WP7

I'm using MVVM via Caliburn Micro on WP7. I have a popup that is shown from the VM. On the popup is a performance progress bar. The progress bar does not show when IsIndeterminate is set to true because the popup is not in the visual tree (it is a…
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StringFormat in wp7?

Is there a way to combine static text AND binding in one TextBlock? Because StringFormat don't work in windows phone 7. I try but don't work.... Thank
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windows phone 7 pictures app images transition, how to make own?

Windows phone 7 standard pictures app has very nice flicking through images (choose concrete image and then flick). Wondering how to replicate that in my own application. requirements are: a) moving to previous/next image using flick b) when flick…
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Developing for iPhone / Android and WPF

I am wanting to write an application for 3 platforms (iPhone, Android, and WPF). I am looking at using monotouch and monodriod to achieve this so I can keep all development in .net Now I want to be able to reuse as much code as possible so I need a…
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Windows Phone 7 Application Sandbox Security (User Context, Home Directory etc..)

I am trying to understand the Windows Phone 7 application sandbox in detail. So I want to understand things such as: Does each app. run as its on unique user? Where is the home (installation. data) directory for each app.? What are the file…
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WP7 Mp3MediaStreamSource demo not working

I dowloaded Mp3MediaStreamSource demo on http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ManagedMediaHelpers but can get it worked with my stream, can you help me? my stream: private static string mediaFileLocation =…
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Are .NET Compact Framework apps compatible with Windows Phone 7?

Old .NET Compact Framework apps still run on Windows Phone 7? Will new apps developed with .NET 3.5 run on WP7? I mean, not Silverlight apps.
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How to enable enter button on keyboard on wp7?

I was noticing on certain application for wp7, that they were able to use the enter key on the keyboard to submit, but by default when you hit the enter key it goes to the next line. I was even noticing the enter key is different from the default…
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What could be causing my WP7 app to crash on only some models?

I've been working on this problem on and off for about a month. I don't expect anybody to be able to give me a definitive answer. I'm just completely out of ideas at this point and could use anything. The problem is that my app crashes on only some…
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