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Distance between two points (and lots of other useful things) can be found at: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts... - Jarno Peschier

I understand what dynamic is for, but I don't like to do scripting languages, not even interop to them. Would use it to make interop with COM stuff (like Office) easier, never scripting languages. Hence my original comment. ;-) - Jarno Peschier

-1 for dynamic (go do a script language if you like that ;-)) - Jarno Peschier

+1 for variance - Jarno Peschier

It seems like there is (if you accept cloud based ones): stackoverflow.com/questions/4002402/ocr-for-windows-phone-7/… - Jarno Peschier

Bing Vision search on WP7 Mango does native OCR, but unfortunately as far as I know there is no API to make this OCR functionality available to third party app developers yet. I hope this will come though.. - Jarno Peschier

Quick question: does the ESRI Toolkit read/handle shape files in any way...? #fingerscrossed - Jarno Peschier

I'll try again on my own (now on Mango; Bing Maps controls is said to have received some tweaking and performance upgrades), but trying out the ASRI Silverlight / WP7 Toolkit is on my list of things to try. Thanks! - Jarno Peschier

Thanks! Creating the actual circle polygon(s) is not actually my problem. Getting this to work without performance problems (a 360-sided polygon for each circle would be... suboptimal I think) is. Would like to have the number of sides of polygons used to be variable by visibility/zoomlevel, or style Pushpins as circles in geo size, not screen size. But thanks very much for the quick reply. - Jarno Peschier

I want to put a number of (transparent) circles on a Bing Map Control as overlays. Think about a "blast radius" or "sphere of influence" kind of thing. I'll need at least two dozen of these circles on the map, together with some other polygons, so making sure performance does not suffer and the maps continues to be easily manipulative seems key here. So far I can think of three options (of which I tried two): Add n-sided MapPolygon instances to the map for each circle. Tried this, and works fine in principle. However, the number of vertices per polygon is a bit of pickle. Too little, and when you zoom in it looks hideous. Too many, and performance will start to suffer. Add Pushpin instances for each circle, and style/template them as circle that are centered around the pushpin location. Seems to work, except that the size of the cicle is then fixed in screen size, not map size. So when you zoom, the circles stay the same size on screen, while they should zoom with the map. Can you... - Jarno Peschier

I know this exact problem and never found a solution or explaination of what is happening here. I'll be watching this question... - Jarno Peschier

There is a lot coming with Mango (definately not WP8 yet, have heard rumors of 7.1 and 7.5 version numbers for mango), but there is no reason to wait. If you want to get started on Windows Phone programming, do it sooner rather than later. The Mango development tools are scheduled to be release within days (if not weeks) anyway. - Jarno Peschier

Agenda notifications do not just have the two buttons for Snooze or Dismiss, but some features that not everybody might know about: If more than one is showing, you can swipe left/right to move between them. Double-tapping a notification will open the associated agenda item for viewing/editing. - Jarno Peschier

After finding the list of excellent hidden-features questions and creating the one for Windows Mobile I was a bit surprised that such a question for Windows Phone 7 did not already seem to exist either. Fire away! - Jarno Peschier

After finding the list of excellent hidden-features questions and creating the one for Windows Mobile I was a bit surprised that such a question for Windows Phone 7 did not already seem to exist either. Fire away! - Jarno Peschier

I think I read somewhere that Silverlight Spy also lets you inspect isolated storage for WP7 apps. I don't use the tool myself, so I wouldn't know. - Jarno Peschier

Seems related to merged resource dictionary. Any one any idea? http://is.gd/WKx5Rr - Jarno Peschier

One option you might have to get what you seem to want: set Opacity of the WebBrowser below 1 so the background of the element the WebBrowser is on top off shines through. This you can then set to your wanted cyan to give the entire HTML content a cyan tint, as if seen through cyan tinted glasses. Might this help, perhaps? - Jarno Peschier

I need the same thing (get the WebBrowser to react the same way as when the user double taps the rendered web page), but triggered from code. Is it possible to put mouse click events in the Silverlight event queue or something (thinking a bit win32 here...)? - Jarno Peschier

Cool! Didn't know about a TileSchedule yet so far. - Jarno Peschier

Might be a silly question on my part, but what's PEB? And what do you mean with "command line" exactly? In other words, have you looked at the contents of argv at all? And what's the (to me) scary looking commandLine.Length / 2 for in your code...? - Jarno Peschier

Why would you need to use the PEB? Have you looked at the contents of argv at all? And what's the (to me) scary looking commandLine.Length / 2 for in your code...? - Jarno Peschier

Another important part if you do this from VS: make sure that at the time of running the app from VS using F5, the phone is not in the lock screen. - Jarno Peschier

This even works for more than one Exchange server at the same time; you get a separate email inbox and all contacts go into the People Hub, merged. - Jarno Peschier

SQL Server Compact Edition is not usable on Windows Phone 7: you can only deploy XNA or Silverlight XAPs to the phone. Effectively relational databases on the phone itself at current impossible. You need to store in isolated storage or in the cloud. - Jarno Peschier

Dutch is currenty just not supported. I made the foolish mistake of setting the AssemblyCulture of my app to nl.NL and then the phone (both developer prototype hardware and the emulator) would simply not even load the application). Nothing we can do, until a version of the OS (and Zune, markplace, etc.) comes out that actually supports Dutch. Which could be a while yet. Only official news so far is "medio 2011", which could basically mean the Q3/Q4 boundary of 2011, even though I hope it'll be much sooner. For now my only app in the Marketplace shows Dutch content, but is localized in English, German and Spanish. If current culture string doesn't start with "nl" there's a button giving information about the actual downloaded content being in Dutch and not getting translated. That was enough to get it accepted into marketplace. The Dutch resources are in there though, so I hope I don't turn out the need to resubmit it just to get the Dutch version to show up on Dutch devices when they... - Jarno Peschier

It's the Background.png image by default. If you're asking about a dynamic start screen tile, you'll need to check into the push notification system, as this is the only way to change the tile image based on external influence (=when your app is not currently running). - Jarno Peschier

You agree Jons answer is correct, but still want to know if there is a way around the current OS restriction? Funny... No, there isn't in this version of the OS. - Jarno Peschier

Windows Phone 7 is not using Silverlight 4 (mentioned in the title of your question), but Silverlight 3 with some phone specific additions/exclusions. - Jarno Peschier

SQL Server Compact Edition is not usable on Windows Phone 7: you can only deploy XNA or Silverlight XAPs to the phone. Effectively relational databases on the phone itself at current impossible. You need to store in isolated storage or in the cloud. - Jarno Peschier