Windows phone application visual basic

You will also see our first sample Windows Phone app project with the solution name "MyFirstWindowsPhone8App" we have defined at creating project step. Windows Phone 8 app sample is displayed in installed apps list.

Please note to the app tile shown on the apps list and app name displayed. At this step I'll try to show you how to customize application tiles and app name for our first Windows Phone 8 project. Windows Phone 8 app tile that is configured with default Visual Studio template project. On apps list installed on Windows Phone 8 emulator, tab on app name and keep your finger or mouse pointer until a context menu is displayed.

When available actions are displayed, choose pin to start to create a short-cut to your app on the start screen of Windows Phone 8 emulator device. Developers will realize that there are different tile images required for different tile sizes: large, medium and small.

Also the app name in list and app name displayed on large tile are also needs our attention. The key configuration file that we will work to customize the app name, the seen app titles on various places and the different sizes tile images is WMAppManifest.

The WMAppManifest. If you don't see the WMAppManifest. This will display all files that are not included in the solution too. To display tiles and tile images settings, double click WMAppManifest.

After you prepare these images and copy them into Tiles folder, you can include those image resources using Include in Project context menu command. The app icon tile which is seen in apps list installed on Windows 8 Phone has a size like x Small app tile for Start screen has the same size as app icon On the other hand, medium app tile has x dimension and large app tile has the size of x You can create your application tiles using these width and height dimensions.

If you make your icon and tile images transparent and use especially white color for shapes, the transparent parts will be in accent color set in Windows Phone 8 Settings app theme settings section. I used the SplashUp online image editing tool for making Kodyaz. Create the second view In Solution Explorer, right-click the View folder, and then add a new item.

The LevelView. Create the custom data binding converter Open the LevelView. Partial Public Class LevelView. Inherits UserControl. Public Sub New. Public Class BoolOpposite. Implements System. Return Not b. Dim b As Boolean. If Boolean. TryParse s, b Then. Return False. Step 3 — Create the main application page Create the user interface for the main application page Open the MainPage. Click the page name text. Add the code for the main application page Open the MainPage. Partial Public Class MainPage.

Inherits PhoneApplicationPage. Private vm As ViewModel. OnNavigatedTo e. Where Accomplishment. Select Accomplishment. Private Sub New. Open the App. Open the MainPage. If Not StateUtilities. IsLaunching AndAlso Me. OnNavigatedFrom e. If Me. Open the ViewModel. Public Sub SaveAccomplishments. For Each a In Accomplishments. If settings. Contains a. Name Then. Add a. Name, a. The tip percentage icon is implemented in a similar manner, as shown in Fig 6.

See attached solution for detailed code. There are a few tricks are worth mentioning when you write a Windows Phone app. For example, to enter the bill amount, the default keyboard setting is English characters and users can click the number button to switch to numeric input. However in code, you can change default keyboard setting and save users a click. Also, you can use the string format to easily change numbers to the desired currency format in just one line.

Object , ByVal e As System. RoutedEventArgs Handles calcBtn. If Not String. Text Then. Catch ex As InvalidCastException. End Try. This is also the default setting. To see how this tip calculator runs in the Emulator, please see Fig 6.

I removed the button borders to make them look nicer. Windows Phone 7 applications provide the same full debugging experience as other VB Silverlight applications. You can set breakpoints, step into, over and out function calls, and use all the debug windows such as Watch, Autos, Locals, Immediate, and Threads. As an exercise for yourself — the current application only allows sharing among group size of 5. Add UI and logic to remove this restriction! These features are also available in Windows Phone application development, and can help improve your code navigation and editing experience.

It supports Pascal Casing and multiple-string search. See Fig 8. Generate types and method stubs on the go! This also helps in a collaboration environment where your team members can implement dependent components. See example in Fig See Fig Disable aggressive matching from IntelliSense. See Fig 9. Fig 9.