'Windows Phone 7' Tag

• The Web role was started in a wrong port

  May 25, 2011

  So you have started to trying out the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7, and created your first sample application. Then , when you launch the admin page, you get this error: Sorry, an error occurred while processing your request. WP7CloudApp1.Web.Infrastructure.RoleInWrongPortException: The Web role was started in a wrong port. For this sample application [...]

  posted in Blog by Magnus Johansson

• How to detect the dark or light theme in Windows Phone 7

  October 24, 2010

  If the user of the Windows Phone 7 device switches from the default dark theme to the light theme, how do you detect which one is in use? In the MSDN article Theme Resources for Windows Phone, there are two interesting resource keys that you can query. These are the PhoneDarkThemeVisibility and PhoneLightThemeVisibility keys. So [...]

  posted in Code by Magnus Johansson

• Windows Phone 7 Theme Colors

  October 24, 2010

  The Windows Phone 7 has two different background color modes; dark or light. In addition, there are ten accent colors to choose from. There’s currently no simple way of detecting which theme and accent color that the user has selected his or her device. However, since the colors of the current theme is injected into [...]

  posted in Blog by Magnus Johansson