Monday, May 20, 2013

Day 17: Testing Image carousel

Yesterday, spent time exploring a solution for the image carousel which was previously appearing vertically. A very nice alternative solution was found here, which the solution would only open up on Visual Studio 2012 and on Windows 8, since Visual Studio 2012 IDE for Windows Phone Development is supported only on Windows 8. So I manually added the code and relevant structure to a self made Visual Studio 2010 Windows Phone Application project, and with fixing a few compilation errors, managed to get the image carousel sliding, as shown in the original article. Was also referring to articles and videos on implementing Pivot controls for displaying information. Pivot controls provide a smooth user experience to drill down and visualize information in a nice manner. Unfortunately time wouldn't permit to implement it.

Found a solution for the missing combo box via the "ListPicker" provided by the Windows Phone Toolkit.

All these days I believe I have done sufficient reading for the implementation. Also sample tests for each new area has been experimented. Tonight hope to revise the implementation strategy, identifying key areas to be developed, based on the various technologies and approaches learnt so far.

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