Even though we have CameraCapture Task to deal with camera, there is another Chooser available as well, which can take Picture either from MediaLibrary or directly from Camera. The PhotoChooserTask helps in getting an image from the Picture / Media Library locations. The PhotoChooserTask, just like any other Tasks is listed under namespace Microsoft.Phone.Tasks and […]
Working with Camera in Windows Phone environment is a common requirement. Almost 25% of the apps in the store uses Camera capture on the app. CameraCaptureTask is a common Task available to the Windows Phone device which can capture camera from an app by launching the basic image capture tool present on the Windows Phone […]
As we saw in the previous post, that you can programmatically change the Lock screen of the Phone from an app which supports extension of Lock Screen defined in the Metadata file, we can also open various settings screen directly from within the app as well. To open an existing settings applet, you need to […]
It is sometimes important for an application to change lock screen of the project. The Lock Screen can be set from an app only if the App supports an Extension to change lock screen. Let us take a look on how to change lock screen from an application. First of all, Lock screen can be […]
It is a very common requirement to get the path of a file relative to the path of the current location which accesses the path. In .NET there are a number of ways which lets you determine the path of a file and there exists more than one valid ways to determine the current path […]
Zipping and Unzipping in a Client Application or a Website is very common requirement. Until the latest .NET version, there is no API that fully supports these things. We would have relied on J# specific JAVA APIs or there are superior 3rd party APIs available which could have done the trick. .NET 4.5 gives an […]
In my previous post, I mentioned about the capability of specifying a Timeout while executing a Regular expression. Sometimes, when your application is totally developed, and it would be a heck to change every single code which uses regular expression to specify a timeout. Sometimes the Regular expression is parsed inside an external assembly. In […]
Regular expressions are common forms of parsing a document and get meaning. It has been very popular and most of the people do use it regularly to solve their complex problems. Being a developer, I use them very often. But there is a catch on using a regular expression. Regular expression gives you a chance […]
Event accessor is not new concept. It has been part of C# language from its inception. If you have ever built a class which has an Event with it, you might have already used it. The .NET automatically adds one Event Accessor inside the event when you define one without it. Unlike VB.NET, the event […]
Visual Studio XML Comments has been a part for quite a while. There are a number of xml tags that are supported which could help in documenting the API which you might have been building. In this post, I am going to discuss how the individual xml tags can help you and this can become […]
When dealing with the new Switch case constructs, I always wanted to add more to it. After adding things to it like, replacing the previous switch /case with lambdas, then adding a StringComparer and then adding IComparer, I thought let us add something really useful to it. The switch with Types is always one might […]
If you are building a class library with Retargetable turned on, you might end up your assemblies to be used by some environment that does not support some of the functionality that is well required by the assembly. Let us consider the case with Caller Info Attributes. Caller Info attributes are a good way of […]