Phone 7 Action Pack (Windows Phone 7)

New Post: What do you want the Phone7ActionPack to do?

joe77 — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:01:26 GMT

Download zip and unzip them in isolatedstorage. is this possible?

Thanks,

Source code checked in, #55373

_TFSSERVICE — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:49:34 GMT

Checked in by server upgrade

New Post: More iPhone 4 like experience

hrpeanut — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:57:52 GMT

hahahahahahahahaha

Updated Wiki: Home

billhgates — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:25:43 GMT

Project Description
Phone7ActionPack #wp7ap is a set of tools aimed at making developing for Windows Phone 7 as easy as possible. It will include some useful Extension Methods, Behaviors, Actions, Triggers and several controls.

If you talk about this on twitter could you kindly tag it with #wp7ap and you can follow me on twitter @phpn00b where I will tweet any an all news.
I will be posting more samples here http://www.anythingtheycando.com/blog/index.php/category/wp7ap/

First release is up and I will be aiming to do a major release every 2 weeks. Till I get some real meat on the action packs bones.
The action packs goals are simple to bring in to expression blend for design time usage as many as possible of the underlying elements of the framework.

It should be noted that any class not marked as stable or working is still in development and not expected to work

Currently Implemented (at some level)

OrientationChangedGoToStateBehavior - Forces visual state changes based on changes to the phone orientation
PhoneFileDataSource - Control that will read/write/list files in the applications Isolated Storage
MakeCallAction - Action that can be attached to any FrameworkElement that will make the phone call a number based on bound properties
CallMethodAction - This is just a simple port from Silverlight of the same basic action that calls a method on a target element
ChoosePhoneNumberAction - Simple Action that will bring up the phones contact list and allow the user to pick a phone number

Goals

PhonePositionControl - expose as dependency properties all useful information about the position of the phone
TakePictureBehavior - simple behavior that takes a picture based on an event on the attached object
AccelerometerControl - expose as dependency properties all useful information about the accelerometer on the phone so that visual elements can be bound to them.

More to come

Just a side not as for using this stuff in any project of yours
This is free open source software, I don't expect to make money with the Action Pack but I would like to know if and how you use it. Not for legal reasons just so that I can get a feel for how people want to use this software.

HD Version of the second Sample Video Phone7ActionPack Sample 2.7z

Thanks to my coworker Jose Salvador who kindly gave us a logo for the Phone7ActionPack.

Updated Wiki: Home

billhgates — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:25:20 GMT

OrientationChangedGoToStateBehavior - Forces visual state changes based on changes to the phone orientation
PhoneFileDataSource - Control that will read/write/list files in the applications Isolated Storage
MakeCallAction - Action that can be attached to any FrameworkElement that will make the phone call a number based on bound properties
CallMethodAction - This is just a simple port from Silverlight of the same basic action that calls a method on a target element
ChoosePhoneNumberAction - Simple Action that will bring up the phones contact list and allow the user to pick a phone number

Goals

PhonePositionControl - expose as dependency properties all useful information about the position of the phone
TakePictureBehavior - simple behavior that takes a picture based on an event on the attached object
AccelerometerControl - expose as dependency properties all useful information about the accelerometer on the phone so that visual elements can be bound to them.

New Post: More iPhone 4 like experience

billhgates — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:50:23 GMT

I am considering making a PhoneInLeftHand behavior so that people switching from iPhone 4 feel at home and with out signal. Anyone have any idea how to implement?

New Post: What do you want the Phone7ActionPack to do?

hrpeanut — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:34:16 GMT

all the controls found in the winphone7 OS - such as the panorama control and the control found in the 'settings' menu.

Updated Wiki: Home

billhgates — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:47:55 GMT

Project Description
Windows Phone 7 Action Pack is a set of tools aimed at making developing for Windows Phone 7 as easy as possible. It will include some useful Extension Methods, Behaviors, Actions, Triggers and several controls.

If you talk about this on twitter could you kindly tag it with #wp7ap and you can follow me on twitter @phpn00b where I will tweet any an all news.
I will be posting more samples here http://www.anythingtheycando.com/blog/index.php/category/wp7ap/

First release is up and I will be aiming to do a major release every 2 weeks. Till I get some real meat on the action packs bones.
The action packs goals are simple to bring in to expression blend for design time usage as many as possible of the underlying elements of the framework.

It should be noted that any class not marked as stable or working is still in development and not expected to work

Currently Implemented (at some level)

OrientationChangedGoToStateBehavior - Forces visual state changes based on changes to the phone orientation
PhoneFileDataSource - Control that will read/write/list files in the applications Isolated Storage
MakeCallAction - Action that can be attached to any FrameworkElement that will make the phone call a number based on bound properties
CallMethodAction - This is just a simple port from Silverlight of the same basic action that calls a method on a target element
ChoosePhoneNumberAction - Simple Action that will bring up the phones contact list and allow the user to pick a phone number

Goals

PhonePositionControl - expose as dependency properties all useful information about the position of the phone
TakePictureBehavior - simple behavior that takes a picture based on an event on the attached object
AccelerometerControl - expose as dependency properties all useful information about the accelerometer on the phone so that visual elements can be bound to them.

Created Release: Phone7ActionPack Beta Release

billhgates — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:42:04 GMT

The first beta release planned for 7/26/2010

Created Release: Phone7ActionPack Alpha 2

billhgates — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:37:46 GMT

Second alpha release I am planning this for 7/12/2010

Updated Release: Phone7ActionPack Alpha Release (Jun 28, 2010)

billhgates — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:01:07 GMT

This is the first alpha release of the Phone7ActionPack. Here are the things that are included with this release:
Note if you want to use this with the emulator you must follow the directions in this post http://www.manyniches.com/windows-phone/signed-assemblies-bug-in-the-windows-phone-tools-ctp-refresh/ to remove the signature from the bing maps assemblies and the system.windows.browsers assembly so that they can run in the emulator. After talking to someone from Microsoft I can't include them in this package.

Controls:
AccelerometerControl - control that exposes for X,Y,Z values direct from the accelerometer.
LocationControl - control that can be bound to but is not visible.
LocationVisualControl - control that can be styled.
PhoneFileDataSource - makes it easy to view isolated storage.
LocationCollectionControl - this control extends the features of the LocationControl to make it seamlessly linkup with the Bing Maps control.
Action:
CallMethodAction - port from silverlight.
ChoosePhoneNumberAction - Source demonstrates how to trigger the selection of a phone number. Next release will make this usable.
LocationChangedCenterMapAction - Simple action that links up the LocationControl with the Bing Maps control causing the map to stay centered on the phone's location as it changes.

Behavior:
OrentationChangedGoToStateBehavior - changes the visual state based on the orentation.

ValueConverters:
DDtoDMSValueConverter - cleans up decimal lat&long.
TimeAgoValueConverter - this will tell you that the time passed in was for example "1 minute ago" "3 hours ago" "5 months" ago.
GeoCoordinateMapLocationValueConverter - used to convert GeoCoordinate to a Location for the Bing Map control.

Released: Phone7ActionPack Alpha Release (Jun 28, 2010)

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:01:07 GMT

Updated Release: Phone7ActionPack Alpha Release (Jun 28, 2010)

billhgates — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:51:03 GMT

This is the first alpha release of the Phone7ActionPack. Here are the things that are included with this release:

Controls:
AccelerometerControl - control that exposes for X,Y,Z values direct from the accelerometer.
LocationControl - control that can be bound to but is not visible.
LocationVisualControl - control that can be styled.
PhoneFileDataSource - makes it easy to view isolated storage.
LocationCollectionControl - this control extends the features of the LocationControl to make it seamlessly linkup with the Bing Maps control.
Action:
CallMethodAction - port from silverlight.
ChoosePhoneNumberAction - Source demonstrates how to trigger the selection of a phone number. Next release will make this usable.
LocationChangedCenterMapAction - Simple action that links up the LocationControl with the Bing Maps control causing the map to stay centered on the phone's location as it changes.

Behavior:
OrentationChangedGoToStateBehavior - changes the visual state based on the orentation.

ValueConverters:
DDtoDMSValueConverter - cleans up decimal lat&long.
TimeAgoValueConverter - this will tell you that the time passed in was for example "1 minute ago" "3 hours ago" "5 months" ago.
GeoCoordinateMapLocationValueConverter - used to convert GeoCoordinate to a Location for the Bing Map control.

Created Release: Phone7ActionPack Alpha Release (Jun 28, 2010)

billhgates — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:48:34 GMT

This is the first alpha release of the Phone7ActionPack. Here are the things that are included with this release:

Controls:
AccelerometerControl - control that exposes for X,Y,Z values direct from the accelerometer.
LocationControl - control that can be bound to but is not visible.
LocationVisualControl - control that can be styled.
PhoneFileDataSource - makes it easy to view isolated storage.
LocationCollectionControl - this control extends the features of the LocationControl to make it seamlessly linkup with the Bing Maps control.
Action:
CallMethodAction - port from silverlight.
ChoosePhoneNumberAction - Source demonstrates how to trigger the selection of a phone number. Next release will make this usable.
LocationChangedCenterMapAction - Simple action that links up the LocationControl with the Bing Maps control causing the map to stay centered on the phone's location as it changes.

Behavior:
OrentationChangedGoToStateBehavior - changes the visual state based on the orentation.

ValueConverters:
DDtoDMSValueConverter - cleans up decimal lat&long.
TimeAgoValueConverter - this will tell you that the time passed in was for example "1 minute ago" "3 hours ago" "5 months" ago
GeoCoordinateMapLocationValueConverter.csGeoCoordinateMapLocationValueConverter

Source code checked in, #53808

billhgates — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:58:51 GMT

Check in for the initial release

Source code checked in, #53807

billhgates — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:58:05 GMT

Checkin of release samples

Updated Wiki: Home

billhgates — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:21:06 GMT

Project Description
Windows Phone 7 Action Pack is a set of tools aimed at making developing for Windows Phone 7 as easy as possible. It will include some useful Extension Methods, Behaviors, Actions, Triggers and several controls.

If you talk about this on twitter could you kindly tag it with #wp7ap and you can follow me on twitter @phpn00b where I will tweet any an all news.
I will be posting more samples here http://www.anythingtheycando.com/blog/index.php/category/wp7ap/

By Monday 6/28/2010 I will have the first "Official Beta Release" till then don't expect to see anything here that is ready to use in a real application

The Release will be before 11:59:59PM EST today

The action packs goals are simple to bring in to expression blend for design time usage as many as possible of the underlying elements of the framework.

It should be noted that any class not marked as stable or working is still in development and not expected to work

Currently Implemented (at some level)

OrientationChangedGoToStateBehavior - Forces visual state changes based on changes to the phone orientation
PhoneFileDataSource - Control that will read/write/list files in the applications Isolated Storage
MakeCallAction - Action that can be attached to any FrameworkElement that will make the phone call a number based on bound properties
CallMethodAction - This is just a simple port from Silverlight of the same basic action that calls a method on a target element
ChoosePhoneNumberAction - Simple Action that will bring up the phones contact list and allow the user to pick a phone number

Goals

PhonePositionControl - expose as dependency properties all useful information about the position of the phone
TakePictureBehavior - simple behavior that takes a picture based on an event on the attached object
AccelerometerControl - expose as dependency properties all useful information about the accelerometer on the phone so that visual elements can be bound to them.

Source code checked in, #53725

billhgates — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:47:25 GMT

Added the Bing Maps stuff

Source code checked in, #53715

billhgates — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:50:57 GMT

Cleaned up project structure and added the Database project

Source code checked in, #53714

billhgates — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:42:34 GMT