Personal Tech Journal

The features of ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta are ASP.NET Web API Refreshed and modernized default project templates New mobile project template Many new features to support mobile apps Recipes to customize code generation Enhanced support for asynchronous methods To know more please read the blog post from Scott Gu at  http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/02/19/asp-net-mvc-4-beta.aspx Hope this helps. Please do drop your comments.

In this article we will look at how to implement Context Menu in Windows Phone. In order to implement Context Menu, we need to first download the SilverLight for Windows Phone Toolkit (November 2011) from http://silverlight.codeplex.com/ . We need to reference “Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit” in the application. We will add the Context Menu to our earlier build application “ContactApp”. We will show it when the user clicks on the contact and it would show up as shown below To invoke the context menu, we will write a method to create the instance of the context menu and add the menu items Now we will invoke this method in the constructor the page. Then when we click on the listbox control and wait for a few seconds the context menu will appear. Hope this was helpful. Please do drop your comments.

In this article we will look at the various Launchers available for Windows Phone. Launchers are nothing but enablers to perform common task enabling to provide a common user experience across the windows phone platform. This does not return any data. The launchers available for Windows Phone are as follows Bing Maps Direction Task Bing Maps Task Connection Settings Task Email Compose Task Marketplace Detail Task Marketplace Hub Task Marketplace Review Task Marketplace Search Task Media Player Launcher Phone Call Task Search Task Share Link Task Share Status Task SMS Compose Task Web Browser Task In order to use these launchers, we have to reference the library using Microsot.Phone.Tasks; We will look at the following launchers and its usage Phone Call Task SMS Compose Task Bing Map Task In the earlier blog post , we had created a simple “ContactApp” application. We will add these launchers to them. Phone Call Task This task e