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By isenthil June 29, 2013
The Windows Phone 8 supports 3 different screen resolutions like WVGA,WXGA,720P. If you are a developer and want to retreive the screen resolution dynamically , you can use the ScaleFactor property defined in App.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor. Eg: string data = App.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor.ToString(); This will retreive the one of the 3 values 100 , 160 , 150 which refers to the screen resolutions...
By Naomi N June 27, 2013
Recently I helped to solve a relatively simple problem. I'll quote my solution and then I'll explain the main problem people often encounter with PIVOT solutions. The pivot solution by itself is not complex, it's a simple static PIVOT. But the thread originator was having a problem arriving to it. The main problem is to understand, that all columns which are not mentioned in the PIVOT aggregate function in the PIVOT clause will be aggregated, so if there...
By Sachin S June 24, 2013
This article provides spell checking functionality for Windows Store Apps, which is missing out-of-box for C#-VB/XAML, HTML/JavaScript apps. This was implemented in response to MSDN forum questions where developers are often looking for spell check solutions in C# or JavaScript apps. Writing a wrapper over the spell checker factory is easy. However, it could be a little tricky for C# developers...
By Matthew Yarlett June 21, 2013
Adding charts to webparts is actually pretty easy; here's how. Adding a chart to a standard webpart: 1. Create a new Empty SharePoint project in Visual Studio. 2. Add a reference to Microsoft.Web.UI.DataVisualization (it's here by default: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Chart Controls\Assemblies\). 3. Add a new standard webpart to your project. 4. In the webparts class file, add a using statement for the chart controls using...
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