Building Windows Phone appointment viewer application
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on 01 Jun 2011 |
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One of the great new features in the new Windows Phone OS, codenamed "Mango" is that developers have access to the device appointments. By using the new APIs we can now integrate the appointments in our applications. To make the developers' lives easier we created a new Calendar control that is an exact copy of the Metro calendar found in the OS. RadCalendar is "appointment-aware" in the sense that you can create a simple appointments data source and bind the calendar to it. This way, the appointments from the data source will be displayed in the month view like in the screenshots below:
With RadCalendar you can achieve the above experience out of the box. You can also specify arbitrary appointments source - for example from your web service or from a 3rd party events feed.
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