Does anyone know how to access the built-in calculator from my application on Windows Phone 7? I have googled it for about 4 hours and I couldn't find an answer.
Any suggestion will be highly appreciated,
Thanks
I'm afraid this is not possible with the Windows Phone 7 SDK: for launching apps/services, you need to use Launchers but in the launchers list, there isn't the calculator.
Even on Windows Phone 8 where you have access to more launchers via URI schemes, there is no way to launch the calculator.
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From what I've seen Windows phone 7 couldn't call other applications form inside your application. Is this still the case?
Just wanting to call another application from inside my application? is this possible and if so, can someone point me in the right direction?
Much appreciated for any help.
As of Windows Phone 7.8, inter-app communication is still unavailable. It's also unlikely to be introduced in a future 7.x version.
In Windows Phone 8, you can add a Extensions/Protocol element to your WMAppManifest to reserve a URI prefix that can then be launched from another app using the Launcher class.
For more information, see MSDN:
Auto-launching apps using file and URI associations for Windows Phone 8
I'm planning on making a soundboard for windows phone 7 and then hoping to port to windows phone 8. I've had plenty of experience with XNA for game creation but have never made a non game app. It seems easier to do it as a normal phone app using Expression Blend so i can take advantage of using xml.
The question is can you use Mono to port a normal windows phone 7 app this or would it be simpler to just use XNA and port to windows phone 8?
Thanks in advance.
You really don't need to port a Windows Phone 7 app to Windows Phone 8. If you want to add Windows Phone 8 specific features you can do something similar to what is described in this article.
AnyOne please help me out i need to know the what are the features supported in windows mobile and what are supported in windows phone 7 and not supported compare to windows mobile.
For ex.getting current running processes list it will support in windows mobile but we are not able to find in windows phone 7 .
please let me know the reference links......
Thanks in advance..
The API references are found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms123401
In general: if you don't find it, then it doesn't exist.
There's no such thing as a one-by-one comparison/translation table.
How to get above information programatically in wp7?.please tell me idea on this....
There is no API for that, sorry. Applications in Windows Phone 7 are built in a way which forbids you to get this kind of system level information.
How can I launch a Windows Phone 7 app programmatically?
I want to launch a custom app built by me from another app built by me.. and hopefully be able to pass parameters.
I don't believe you can. As far as I'm aware, the interaction between applications is limited to the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace.
I would personally expect this to be one of the aspects of Windows Phone 7 development to be improved pretty soon.