is it possible to create a custom account (similar to Microsoft Account,Facebook, Twitter, ...) in Windows Phone so that a user can setup an account of my Custom Type and then can sync data and so on.
It's something similar to using a SyncAdapter in Android.
can I achieve this in Windows Phone ? what are the APIs to use ?
Thanks
No, there is no way to setup your own account type.
But in Windows Phone 8 your application can add its own contacts to People hub. Here is basic samples:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj207024(v=vs.105).aspx
And from this book you can get more details:
Windows Phone 8 Development Internals
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Is there any way I can do it without registering?The account is not registering me as a student and I cannot own a company just for this.
Juts follow this tutorial. All you have to do is sign in with your Microsoft account and your phone will be "dev unlocked". No windows phone developer account needed.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff769508(v=vs.105).aspx
Does anybody know how to access the Xbox Live Avatar from within an XNA based Windows Phone 7 application?
Examples I have found seem to use a SignedInGamer.Avatar property, but this is not accessible from Windows Phone 7.
Is there another way or is this not possible in the first place?
as a side note, I'm using the recent Mango beta 7.1 SDK
Thanks!
It's not available in code unless you have the elevated privileges of access to XBox live.
You can, however get an image of your avatar from the web. try:
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/XXXXXXX/avatar-body.png
where xxxxx is the XBox account name. e.g. http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/kris/avatar-body.png
My understanding is they are only available to partners. See this post for more information:
http://www.ozymandias.com/how-do-i-use-xbox-live-apis-on-windows-phone
However, it looks like you can demo them, here's a quick tutorial on using them:
http://xnaessentials.com/archive/2009/06/11/xna-game-studio-3-1-avatar-tutorial.aspx
How do you access the contacts store (the contact list) within Windows Phone 7?
Thanks!
update: It seems that this might be available in the next version of WP7, Mango:
Link
EDIT: This answer was correct at the time of posting. In Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) third-party applications will have access to contacts.
You can't. You're not allowed to. That's viewed as private data that applications shouldn't be touching.
EDIT: Although you can't directly access the contacts list, you can launch the EmailAddressChooserTask or PhoneNumberChooserTask to get back just that piece of information about a user-specified contact. (Likewise you can launch a task to save a phone number or email address.)
There is a official Walkthrough at Microsoft especially for Mango Beta 2.
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 gives you read-only access to the user’s contact data, aggregated across the user's different accounts.
Only possible way to save new details to a contact is via the Launchers:
SaveEmailAddressTask
SavePhoneNumberTask
SaveContactTask (which is new to Mango Beta 2)
For read only you can use:
PhoneNumberChooserTask
EmailAddressChooserTask
AddressChooserTask (which is new to Mango Beta 1)
If you want to query the whole contact list, you will need LINQ.
Check the WP7.1 SDK Beta for the class "Contacts" listed in the namespace UserData . Now you should be able to...
How can I fetch the calendar-activities from Outlook in my Silverlight WP7-app? I want to make my own Agenda-app to run on my Windows Phone 7 (Omnia 7).
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If not directly from phone calendar to my app, what other options do I have?
In my phone I currently have Windows Live and Outlook calendars. Im guessing that new Windows Live activities I enter on the phone is synched to my online Live-account? Could I then get those through a custom WCF-service/XML-feed instead perhaps? And likewise with the Oulook-calendar. It should be synched with the Outlook-calendar on the SharePoint-server. Maybee I can get the calendar-events in a custom server-app and feed it to the phone through the local network instead. Any suggestions?
And is there any way to add more calendar-sources then Live and Outlook to the WP7-calendar? Is there any API for this?
The short answer is: "you can't do that".
The long answer is: "sorry you can't do that".
All kidding aside, currently the API doesn't expose any method of accessing the user's calendar. Rightly or wrongly they do this for security reasons.
i look at the list of choosers for windows phone 7 and i miss one where i can read the avatar-pic fo the contact. am i missing something here or is this just not possible yet?
thx
sargola
This isn't possible through the phone SDK at the moment.
What is exposed is being able to retrieve the email address or the phone number from a chooser. Details on that here for reference.
How to: Use Choosers for Windows Phone