ComponentOne Controls(Charts, Excel,FlexGrid,Gauge) for Windows Phone 7.5 Mango


Component One Studio for Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is quite essential for enterprise apps with Windows Phone. It has more than 20 rich UI controls (FlexGrids, PdfViewer, Maps, Charts, DateTimePicker, Ribbon etc..). So , to develop rich UI set with Windows Phone 7.5 apps , lets start with ComponentOne Controls for Windows Phone. Start code in VS 2010 SP1 with Controls designing & get support for ComponentOne Controls in toolbox.

More information: http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/StudioWindowsPhone/

  • The ComponentOne Studio for WP7 contains massive support for enterprise Charts (Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Line Graphs..), Sortable Flexgrids, Interactive Gauges..
  • Lets check the Line Chart Sample:

  • View of Interactive Gauges of ComponentOne Controls for WP7:

  • Lets check a sample of DateTime Picker Control of ComponentOne Studio:

  • Similarly , it has direct navigation controls to access Windows SkyDrive folders from your WP7 apps.
  • A sortable FlexGrid control sample of WP7 app with ComponentOne Controls for WP7.

PhoneGap 1.2 for Windows Phone 7.1 Mango with VS 2010


PhoneGap is an excellent open-source hub for building mobile web applications wrapped in native mobile application features. It’s a magnificient tool from Nitobi which has excellence on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Palm Web OS, Symbian, Windows Phone.

  • Let’s download PhoneGap sdk from www.phonegap.com & extract the .ZIP file to get the PhoneGap starter kit.
  • Open the Windows Phone folder & copy the .ZIP named GetAppStarter to C:\Users[Username]\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#\Silverlight for Windows Phone.

 

  • Create a new Project in Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone on PhoneGap.

  • Lets check the Project environment for PhoneGap project in Visual Studio for Windows Phone 7.1 Mango.

  • Let’s check the  output in Windows Phone 7.1 Mango for PhoneGap.

SharePoint 2010 with Windows Phone 7 Traning Kit is now Available


Accessing SharePoint 2010 applications are quite easy with the help of Windows Phone 7 which integrates directly with SharePoint. The training kit helps to leverage custom development using Microsoft SharePoint 2010 applications with Windows Phone 7 for OAuth services, Twitter API, Windows Azure, SQL Azure , Office 365, LinkedIn API, Silverlight Web parts & Bing Maps API.

Download the training kit from here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26813

  • One of the great tool sharepoint 2010 with Windows Phone 7 toolkit is now available in codeplex which helps the windows phone 7 apps to access the SharePoint 2010 applications using Forms authentication.
  • It downloads lists of data with prepackaged filters to limit the data without writing CAML.