Sunday 5 December 2010

Get start with WP7 development

Just some steps to make sure before starts Windows Phone 7 development.

Step 1: First thing you need to make sure if you using Windows Vista you must have service pack 2 installed in your PC.

Step 2: Now if you have Visual Studio 2010 already installed in your PC still you can’t start WP7 development you need to install Windows Phone Developer Tools which includes:

Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone

Windows Phone Emulator Resources

Silverlight 4 Tools For Visual Studio

XNA Game Studio 4.0

Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone

Step 3: There is an update available of Windows Phone Developer Tool. Which you can install after completing Step 2.

Step 4: Now everything is set up open Visual Studio 2010 or Express which installed after Step 2. Browse project if project not available than you can selected from Online Template:

You are ready to start Windows Phone 7 Development.

Saturday 4 September 2010

Blog Engine .Net using Web Matrix 1:

First task here how to change spanner icon from Blog.


To find the place to change it expands the themes/standard folder and then open site.master file.



Here is the code where we need to make this change

<head runat="server" profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="~/pics/blogengine.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>

head>

Change the url of shortcut icon:

<head runat="server" profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="~/themes/Standard/camera.png" type="image/x-icon"/>

head>

Now run the website and you will notice the icon is changed to: