Monday, June 20, 2011

First WP7 App

Hey everyone. I decided to try some Windows Phone 7 development to see how easy or hard it is. So far, I have found it to be pretty easy since I’m a WPF and Silverlight developer. If you are a .Net developer and are interested in mobile development, I would highly encourage you to give WP7 development a try.

Here is a very simple application I wrote just to get my feet wet with WP7 development. It’s available as a free download in the marketplace, so if you have a Windows Phone 7 device, give it a shot and let me know what you think. Again, it is an extremely simple application, but if you are a baseball fan, it should be useful.

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Let me know what you think.

Thanks!

WPF Selected Treeview Item Background

This one took me a while to figure out, so I thought I’d share it with everyone. If you have a treeview item and don’t want the selected item to be that ugly blue color, you can easily change it.

 

All you need to do is add this line of code into your Treeview. In this particular example, I didn’t want the selected item to be colored at all, so I set the color to Transparent, but you can enter other colors here to suit your app’s needs.

Hope this helps. Happy coding!

                    <TreeView.Resources>
<
SolidColorBrush Color="Transparent" x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey}"/>
</
TreeView.Resources>