Mohammed Ezzat Awad

Using windows phone web client is pretty common but the thing is you can not use it using Async -> Await mechanism so i used threading to create an async functionality for The Download string and upload string methods here is the code below // Comment public class AsyncWebClient { public Task DownloadString(Uri uri) { var task = new TaskCompletionSource (); try { var client = new WebClient(); client.DownloadStringCompleted += (s, e) => { task.SetResult(e.Result); }; client.DownloadStringAsync(uri); } catch (Exception ex) { task.SetException(ex); } return task.Task; } public Task UploadString(Uri uri, string content) { var task = new TaskCompletionSource (); try { v...

This is a short post in which i will explain how on Windows phone 8 to bind the application bar button or menu item, first this is only a fix for the  BindableApplicationbar  which supports windows phone 7 only, i just made it support windows 8 no features added or anything. i have uploaded the dll file here so it can be accessible easily here is the link to download http://sdrv.ms/RApUal now that you got the link lets check how we gonna use it you can refer to BinableApplicationbar  or check out the code here that i actually used in my app and i already read it there !  Add a reference to the BindableApplicationBar library here is the link again  http://sdrv.ms/RApUal Add XML namespace declaration in your page's XAML: xmlns : bar ="clr-namespace:BindableApplicationBar;assembly=BindableApplicationBar" Set Bindable.ApplicationBar property on your page code as in the snippet below: < phone : PhoneApplicationPage >  ...