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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Errata for "101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I"

1. Page 35: "// For the Setting class" should be "// For the Setting class from Chapter 20"
2. Page 218: The filename in the title of Listing 9.3 should be IncomingCallPage.xaml (not IncomingCall.xaml)
3. Page 221: The filename in the title of Listing 9.4 should be IncomingCallPage.xaml.cs (not IncomingCall.xaml.cs)
4. Page 226: The filename in the title of Listing 9.5 should be CallInProgressPage.xaml (not CallInProgress.xaml)
5. Page 230: The filename in the title of Listing 9.6 should be CallInProgressPage.xaml.cs (not CallInProgress.xaml.cs)
6. Page 261: The "containg" in the comment should be "containing"
7. Page 276: "SwitchViewButton_Click" should be "ViewButton_Click"
8. Page 386: The last comment line should use the word "Vary" instead of "Very"
9. Page 413: The last sentence in the 2nd paragraph should say "Rogers" instead of "Rodgers"
10. Page 453: In the first line of the last paragraph, "transitions can automatically" should be "transitions that can automatically"
11. Page 583: "IncludedStartingLetters" should instead be "ExcludedStartingLetters"
12. Page 750: The "imag" in the comment toward the bottom of the page should be "image"
13. Page 767: The "Add the animations to the storyboad" comment should instead be "Add the animations to the storyboard"
14. Page 771: The "Threshold" on the 6th-to-last line of the listing should be "Sensitivity"
15. Page 790: Toward the bottom of the page, the "stream.Read(SquawkBuffer," should be "stream.Read(bytes,"

Thanks to Jesus Rodriguez and Tad Anderson for finding these!

More details for anyone stuck on Chapter 1's "using WindowsPhoneApp":
You've got three options to make your project compile:

Copy Settings.cs from the Chapter 1 code download and include it in your project.
Create a new Settings.cs file in your project and type in the Settings.cs code from Chapter 20.
Just use the project from the Chapter 1 code download.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:52:41 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:38:22 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

In Page 86 sidebar, "The phone laucher is one of the many features that do not work in the emulator" is wrong. If you add the ID_CAP_PHONEDIALER to the WMAppManifest.xml file in your ICE sample code, you can use the phone launcher in the emulator without any issue.

Zhu Xiaoxin

Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:59:26 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Bought your book. But am stuck on Chapter 1. Using WindowsPhoneApp; doest seem to be a reference. So Settings<int> don’t work.

I am pretty new to C#, but not so new in that I coulndt make my own basic counter app in a different way. After goggling for a good few hours found other people with the same problem.

I understand it something to do with Settings.cs or Usning Settings.IO.Isolated; but I am so confused. What do I need to add to my code?

Barry

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:13:04 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Hey It WOULD BE NICE if the very FIRST APP worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to track down and figure out "Using WindowsPhoneApp" to start??? I've got a million things to do and the WHOLE IDEA of a book is that IT IS PROOFREAD and the code samples checked for accuracy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you please POST HERE what is required to get this running - "from the setting class in ch 20" is not adequate

Robwet Karlsson

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:54:40 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Chapt 1: Tally WindowsPhoneApp issue

1) You have to download the source code;

2) Then you create a Folder - Shared, then a sub folder Settings.

3) Copy Setting.cs from the downloaded source code for 20/shared/settings/setting.cs to Tally (01/shared/settings/)

If you deleted the .png files as the book recommends then you must replace them from the download dir. Don't forget to set them to content.

This may all work if you download the code first. I tried to type it in from the book, theory being if I type rather than paste I might retain more.

Robert Karlsson

Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:15:56 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Barry/Robert, I'm sorry for the confusion this has caused. I do recommend using the code download to get started. It is the fastest way for a time-strapped developer to explore the apps, and I don't believe the code download has any errors other than #15 in the list above.

Several apps have more code than what is printed in the book, as the book is already quite large! :) I agree it would have been nice if Chapter 1 would have been easier to type in from scratch. This could have been easily done by removing the isolated storage part, but I really did not want to make the app more artificial.

I'm actually surprised by how many people are typing the code themselves. That's a good thing, though. I definitely understand the benefits. I'm keeping this in mind as I work on Volume II.

Thanks again!

Adam Nathan

Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:16:16 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Zhu, thanks! If anyone else finds an error, please post it!

Adam Nathan

Thursday, June 23, 2011 1:48:48 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Funny thing is some of my downloaded chapters have no setting.cs in the Shared/Settings Folders, which leads to all sort of errors when you load the solution. But copy/paste works!

Also, p 98 The User Interface says seven-row, two column grid. It's six in the designer and xaml. No biggie.

Robert Karlsson

Monday, July 04, 2011 4:52:37 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Yay, after ages of wating I finnaly got your 101 windows phone apps book, and I just found a gramatical error, on page 305 it says "DoubleAnimation is by far the most commonly used animation class due to large the number of properties.." it should say "due to THE large number of propeties..." but hey excelent book, even if there are a couple of errors.

Isaac Oscar Gariano

Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:13:07 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

where can i download the source code ???? for this book ?!

linda

Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:54:05 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I am also trying to figure out how to get the source code. I bought the kindle edition off of amazon and still have not received anything regarding where I can find it.

Chris

Chris

Thursday, July 07, 2011 8:57:04 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

hey answer us we bought this book and no source code also chapter 1 not compiling are you kidding with us ??!! if u want to make mistakes and error in your book its ok but not in the 1st of the book i want to be refund!!

linda

Friday, July 08, 2011 8:23:37 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Im suprised at how many people are having trouble, its realy quite simple:
To get the source code:
1. go to http://www.informit.com/store/register.aspx?i=9780672335525 and follow the prompts
2. then go to http://www.informit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=138363 and click download code file
3. Its that easy!

To get chappter 1 to work
1. go to the shard folder in the source code, there should be a folder called settings, inside that there is a file.
2. drag that file to solution explorer in visual studio, and to where abouts in your project you want to keep the file
3. make shure to add "uding WindowsPhoneApp" to any file that you want to acces the settings class.

Thats it!

Isaac Oscar Gariano

Friday, July 08, 2011 10:46:36 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

oh thank u man very much thank you a lot can i have your email please

my email is physicsjo2000@yahoo.com

linda

Friday, July 08, 2011 8:23:59 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Your welcome, and its IsaacOscar@hotmail.com, nead anny more help just ask.

Isaac Oscar Gariano

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