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Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Profiler” - Part 9 of 8)

This post is a “missing part” of series about new features in Windows Phone Mango New and very important feature of Windows Phone “Mango” Developer Tools is the profiler. The profiler enables the developers of Silverlight applications (currently only Silverlight scenarios are supported) to sense important heartbeats of the application and collect information about application behavior at runtime. To measure the performance or the application, navigate to Debug menu option and select Start Windows...

Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“New Sensors & Tooling Enhancements” - Part 3 of 8)

Windows Phone devices are modern devices. As such, they usually have few sensors such as built-in accelerometer, A-GPS, light sensor, magnetometer, etc. Windows Phone minimum hardware spec requires that all Windows Phone will have at least 4 of them – A-GPS, Accelerometer, Compass and Light sensors. While accelerometer and A-GPS were available for developers with first version of Windows Phone, there are some new sensors which were added with Mango. The hardware market is not standing still, thus...

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Push Notifications (Part 2 of 2)

In previous post I described how to build server part of push notification mechanism for Windows Phone 7. This time I’ll show how to handle push notifications on the phone. To demonstrate it I created pretty simple Silverlight application for Windows Phone. The UI of this application looks like the follows: Lets see how the push mechanism is implemented. Phone API defines a class, which responsible for push notifications: HttoNotificationChannel . This class is responsible for subscribing to events...