Make tabs more handy Pop into Internet Explorer and hit the Stop icon. Scroll down to select "settings," and from here you have the option to adjust a number of features. The one you want is "use address bar button for," which you can select and then pick from the three favorite options, one of which is tabs. If you choose this function, you can jump between tabs without having to go into the options menu. Customizing Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8 allows you to personalize your phone.
Tiles can be resized by holding down on them on the home screen, or from within the apps drawer. Once in edit mode -- indicated by one tile lighting up and the rest graying out -- you can either press the bottom-right arrow to adjust the size, or unpin a tile by hitting the top-right pin button.
It should be noted that unpinning is not the same as uninstalling. To reposition a tile, drag it around with your finger, and when you're happy, quickly press the tile to exit the editing mode. If you have multiple tiles to move, just select the next live tile to adjust and keep going until you're satisfied with the new arrangement.
You can also adjust the accent color, as it's known, under settings and then "theme. Go back to settings, and you'll find another option called "lock screen. Searching a Web page Within the browser is a search tool called "find on page.
When in Internet Explorer, press the ellipsis icon and select "find on page" toward the bottom of the list. Type in your search query and press enter. All text found in the search will show up in your chosen accent color, and there's an arrow key to scroll through all the findings at the bottom of the display.
To save time, though, you can hold down your finger on each key to pull up other options, including numbers, accents or, in the case of the ellipsis button, other useful symbols such as a question mark.
For languages, you can jump between each one you've installed almost instantly. Handy, eh? Other useful functionality built into the keyboard includes a word picker. Type a few letters of a word and suggestions will appear above. Move right and left between them with a swipe and then pick one by pressing it. Finally, a double tap of the space bar adds a period and a space for the next sentence. Once done, you can easily jump between the languages you need.
Creating a room Nice and simple, this one. Browse to the People hub and the word "together" should appear. Groups have less functionality, so we'll concentrate on rooms.
Select "room," choose a name, and hit the floppy disc "save" button at the bottom. Windows Phone 8 will now set up the room. As with the people list, you can scroll up or down, search a specific name with the search button at the bottom, or press one of the colored letters to jump to whichever part of the alphabet you want.
When you've added everyone you want to include, click to signify that you're finished, and your friends will now be alerted of the new room -- if they also have Windows Phone 8 devices, that is. From here you can then share pictures, chat, make appointments, or broadcast your location to everyone inside.
If in doubt, tap and hold I've briefly mentioned this before, but I can't stress enough the importance of this tip. If you're not sure how to use something, either use the ellipsis button or press and hold down until options appear.
Windows Phone 8 is pretty simple to use, but if you ever are perplexed, this should be the solution you seek. Copying and pasting If there's text on screen, you can press it and it will highlight.
To highlight multiple words, the two end circles can be dragged along to select all the text you want to include. It can prove fiddly, so on a Web page try to zoom in by pinching the screen with two fingers to make life easier. Once something has been copied, you can paste it using the clipboard option that will appear above the onscreen keyboard. Using your phone as an Xbox remote control If your Xbox is online and your Windows Phone is on the same network under settings you can find "Wi-Fi" and connect to your home router , you can download and install the Xbox SmartGlass app formerly known as My Xbox Live.
Once installed, open the Xbox hub, select the app, and then make sure your Xbox is also turned on. The app will then sign you in, before giving you control of your Xbox. Using the cloud If you download and install the Skydrive app, you can manage your cloud storage on the go, but even without the app you can still enjoy access to the cloud.
When you've taken a photo, you can press the ellipsis button and select "upload to Skydrive. Download application from the server automatically and upgrade 8. Sunday, May 20, AM. I wouldn't start with a comparison - I would start with learning the new platform. Everything is different. Subsequently, how you think about app development should be different for this platform, too.
Uses a bit Different API than you may be used to though. I believe SQLLite is available too though. Zigbee commuication Nope. Platform doesn't have Zigbee comm. Once we added the text box we can see the screen looks like below. Now we have 2 ways to assign the input scope first is we will assign the input scope in the XAML code itself and second one by adding it directly from the code behind as shown in the below codes.
We have assigned the Textbox1 directly with the input scope in the XAML code itself and for Textbox2 we have assigned the input scope at runtime by programming in the code behind.
Now we are done with our code, just run the application by pressing F5 directly from the keyboard or we can use the Build and execute the project option from the tool bar to run the application. Once the Build is successful we can see the Windows Phone emulator with the application and the expected outputs as shown in the screens below. Mean while Happy Programming!!!
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