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The Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 app model gives Windows Phone 8 developers access to some of the newest features available in Windows Phone Store apps without significantly modifying existing Windows Phone 8 code. It uses Silverlight based APIs.

Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 apps uses Silverlight based APIs, unlike Windows Phone 8.1, which uses Windows Runtime APIs. Some features behave differently in Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 than Windows Phone 8.1. MSDN has specified these differences in Windows Phone 8.1 feature behavior for Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 apps.

Resources for learning are available at MSDN Dev Center.

Official developer resources are available at dev.windowsphone.com.

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New Live tiles don't work in Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 apps?

So when I was watching this video from BUILD I thought it's gonna be easy... But I can't seem to get the tile of my WP Silverlight 8.1 app to change by doing the following. const string xml = "" + "" +…
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Check internet Connection on phone

I wanted to check whether my phone can connect to Internet or not. I have seen several questions already. One of those is Question . It says to use NetworkInterface.GetIsNetworkAvailable() this and i tried it. I have disconnected my PC from internet…
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How to disconnect Windows Phone 8.1 emulator from network?

I want to test my app when it is disconnected from network (Internet connection). How to simulate the scenario in which phone doesn't have an Internet connection?
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File picker contracts for Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight app

Can't find out how to use File picker contracts for Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight app. All documentations are related to Windows Store 8.1 Apps, but nothing is said related to Silverlight 8.1 Apps at https://msdn.microsoft.com/.
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Out Of Memory-exception when navigating to page

I'm making a simple Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight app. The idea is that I can make an entry with a picture (taken with the camera) and add a title and description text to it. Once an entry is saved, a button appears on the main page to view it. So I…
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Windows phone tile custom color

I'm trying to set custom color to my app's tile. It shows custom color if I pin it start screen. But in the app list, it uses the phone theme color only. How to set the custom color there? On start screen: In apps list: Note: This is not a live…
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Error while getting data from NavigationContext

I am creating a Reminder app using C# in Visual Studio 2013. One of the pages is for launching the notification. My code is : protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e) { base.OnNavigatedTo(e); string Combobox =…
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Windows Runtime Component with Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1

I have an existing Windows Phone 8 app which is basically an alarm app. For whatever reason, Alarm class is not supported by the new Windows Phone RunTime, so going forward I can only upgrade it to Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1. Luckily WP SL 8.1…
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Windows Mobile 10 showing scheduled notification without correct app name and icon

I developed a Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 application and before the Windows 10 update everything was working fine. On Windows 10 Mobile whenever I receive a notification (sent using ScheduledToastNotification and the…
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Can't use WPToolkit in XAML

I currently get following error: error : The tag 'ListPicker' does not exist in XML namespace 'clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone.Toolkit'. The XAML is following: The xml namespace…
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Problems with name of file on sdCard WP SL 8.1

I create a file named "Products.txt" on sdCard. When I open it first time its name is "Products[1].txt", second time the name is "Products[2].txt", third time again "Product[1].txt" and so on. I don't understand why because I don't have another file…
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'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' when trying to create a file in sdCard WP SL 8.1

I get this exceptions when i am trying to create a file inside a folder in sdCard. The folder is created, the file is created, but the text is not written. Someone know why? Because after I will need to access it. This is my code: StorageFolder…
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Which class is suitable to play music file?

My app will get all music file from KnownFolders.MusicLibrary, which will return StorageFile, but later I found out there's few Class I can choose to play music file. What I want is that when I play a list of music file, it can be controlled on the…
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Windows Phone ToastNotification cancellation

I created toast notifications by instructions from this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/dn631260.aspx By clicking on notification it is cancelled and removed from action center. Is there any way not to remove…
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