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Windows Phone 7 : Changing Keyboard Settings The things I find handy about the on-screen keyboard you may find annoying. No matter. Windows Phone lets you turn on or off many of the autocorrection features. You can also erase any words you’ve added to the dictionary.

Windows Phone 7 : Customizing the Dictionary The dictionary that comes with Windows Phone 7 is surprisingly comprehensive. (Case in point: Finding a word it didn’t know for the screenshot you see below took a lot longer than I expected!)

Windows Phone 7 : Fixing Mistakes Windows Phone 7 can catch and fix a surprising number of common typos. For example, it automatically capitalizes the pronoun I and adds an apostrophe to contractions like can’t or won’t.

Windows Phone 7 : Working with the Suggestion Bar As you type, Windows Phone 7 diligently cross-checks what you’re typing against its dictionary and offers real-time suggestions and corrections. Suggestions can help you type more words in less time. If you misspell a word, the suggestion bar can also fix it for you automatically.

Windows Phone 7 : Editing Text Two of the basic editing tools on the phone are the cursor and the Delete key. Delete has several gears—the longer you press it, the more it erases. The cursor—or caret as it’s sometimes called—is useful for making surgical edits and cuts to something you’ve typed.

Windows Phone 7 : Typing Basics Typing on the Windows Phone 7 virtual keyboard is pretty straightforward. Still, the keyboard might not always behave like the one on your PC, so it doesn’t hurt to go over some of the basics.

Windows Phone 7 : Exploring the On-Screen Keyboard Don’t be deceived by the flat, low-fidelity look of the on-screen keyboard. A lot of smarts lurk beneath its surface. The keyboard is laid out in a traditional QWERTY arrangement, with four rows of keys, and works whether you hold the phone vertically or horizontally (portrait or landscape views).

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : XAML Styling (part 2) Every control in Silverlight has XAML that defines how a control is drawn. For example, the humble button uses this XAML to draw itself

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : XAML Styling (part 1) When writing code, it’s common to take common pieces of code and reuse then in a number of common ways including creating base classes, creating static classes or reusable libraries. In XAML, the same need for creating reusability.

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : Data Binding (part 2) Data binding also allows you to create bindings that allow you to create a linkage between XAML elements. This is called Element Binding. To use element binding, you can specify the ElementName as part of the binding syntax

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : Data Binding (part 1) Writing applications for the phone will likely involve data of some sort. Silverlight’s support for data binding makes displaying the data to the user helps you build your applications in a much more powerful way, but what is data binding exactly

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : Transformations and Animations Now that you have the basic building blocks of designing the look of an application, let’s talk about creating the feel of an application. Applications should feel alive to the user

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : Controls The drawing grammar you’ve seen is used primarily to paint the surface of the Windows Phone 7. The next level down is controls. Controls are for interaction with the user.

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : Visual Grammar Silverlight gives you the ability to draw shapes and colors on the surface of the phone itself. While you might not imagine doing much actual drawing, it is important for you to understand how creating a design with the drawing primitives is important to the overall XAML story.

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : Visual Containers The purpose of these containers is to allow other elements to be laid out in particular ways on the visual surface of Silverlight.

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : What is XAML? What is eXensible Application Markup Language (or XAML)? In Silverlight, XAML is used to design the user interfaces (both the look and feel of applications) but it does quite a lot more

Windows Phone 7 : Connecting a Bluetooth Headset Bluetooth is a wireless technology that lets you talk hands-free in your car—or look a little crazy in the supermarket. Bluetooth headsets typically have a range of roughly 30 feet, so you can stick your Windows Phone in a coat pocket, purse, or glove compartment and still make and take calls.

Windows Phone 7 : Turning On Airplane Mode If you fly, then by now you’ve undoubtedly memorized the pre-takeoff spiel about turning off your cell phone and other electronic devices. The airplane mode setting in Windows Phone makes it easy to comply.

Windows Phone 7 : Updating Your Phone Software Some smartphones receive their software updates over the airwaves. Windows Phone is designed to receive its software updates via the companion Zune software on your PC.

Windows Phone 7 : Finding a Lost Phone Lots of people misplace their phone every year. Whether it’s just under a couch cushion or you’ve left it behind at a store or restaurant, you can use a free online service to help get it back.

Windows Phone 7 : Locking Your Phone The lock screen in Windows Phone is mostly designed to prevent you from accidentally brushing the touch-sensitive screen and dialing someone’s number. But you can make it live up to its name by turning on the password-protection feature.

Windows Phone 7 : Importing Contacts from a SIM Card A SIM card is the thumbnail-sized memory card found inside cell phones sold by AT&T, T-Mobile, and other carriers with GSM-based cellular networks. Along with basic information like your phone number, a SIM can store the names, addresses, and numbers of up to a couple hundred contacts.

Windows Phone 7 : Silencing Your Phone There’s nothing like being on the receiving end of disapproving glares and not-so-subtle shushes when your phone sounds off in the wrong place—a meeting, a movie theater, the middle of a wedding.

Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight : Working with the Phone This first application is a program that can be pretty self-sufficient, but not applications are like that. Most applications will want to interact with the phone’s operation system to work with other parts of the phone.

Writing Your First Phone Application - Adding Code (part 2) If you have a phone with which you want to do your development, you will want to be able to deploy and debug directly on the phone itself. First you need to connect your phone to your development machine.

Writing Your First Phone Application - Adding Code (part 1) This first Windows Phone 7 application is not going to do much, but we should get started and make something happen with the phone. Since this is your first Windows Phone 7 application, let’s not pretend it is a desktop application but instead let’s show off some of the touch capabilities.

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : Designing with Blend Like the express edition of Visual Studio, the Windows Phone 7 tools include an express version of Microsoft Expression Blend specifically for use for developing phone applications. You could launch Blend by looking for the shortcut key, but instead you can open it directly with Visual Studio.

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 : Creating a New Project To get started in creating your first Windows Phone 7 application you will want to start in one of two tools: Visual Studio or Expression Blend. Visual Studio is the place that most developers start their projects so we will begin there but you will see how you will use both applications for different parts of the application development process.

Developing Applications for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight : Preparing Your Machine Once you meet the requirements, you can run the vm_web.exe that you downloaded from the web site to install the tools. The Tools includes Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, Blend Express for Windows Phone and the Software Development Kit (or SDK).

Windows Phone 7 : Picking Ringtones and Alerts You won’t find any rooster calls, honking car horns, or snippets of ‘80s hip-hop on your Windows Phone. Depending on your perspective, that could be a blessing or a serious bummer