Seems like this will be the opening post for our Developers’ corner , Windows Phone 7 Navigation. Recently, I have been doing alot development on Windows Phone 7, for demostrations, for projects and many other stuffs and one of the most basic thing that people will ask when they start a development is how to navigate from “page” to “page”. ( In fact, a handful people had asked me already.) This tutorial shows us how to use the NavigationService.Navigate().

1. Create a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight project on Visual Studio. I named it as NavigationService

2. Create a new page by right clicking on your solution explorer and add a new item and choose Windows Phone Potrait page call Page2.xaml

3. We need to set some stuffs in the second page and main page so we know it navigated. I made use of the properties window. If you cant find your properties window, you can do a Ctrl+W, P.
This are what i changed and added.

Edit the PageTitle in MainPage.xaml
—Text : Page 1

Edit the PageTitle in Page2.xaml
—Text : Page 2

Add a button in MainPage.xaml
—Name : btnGo
—Content : Go to Page 2

4. Lets add some code for Navigation in, double click on the button you created on MainPage.xaml, it should generate a click event handler for your button, btnGo. Add this in.

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NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("/Page2.xaml", UriKind.Relative));

5. F5 and see if your Page 1 changes to Page 2!!

Sample Code : Download sample code

Do visit out Developers’ corner for other guides!

Should there be any problem, please feel free to contact me at guohong ( at ) limguohong ( dot ) com

A few key changes you will notice and the change in direction this blog will be heading.
1. Theme changed
2. You will be able to like my post on facebook / retweet my post on twitter now.
3. There’s a Developers’ Corner now. Me and my guest blogger/s will post technology-related guides / stuffs here. Lets await the cool upcoming stuffs. We have stuffs ranging from VS IDE to Windows Phone to C#.

This blog will still remain as my personal blog, just that I wish to leverage on this platform to share my findings and knowledge on programming. Please feel free to contact me should you need any help.
guohong ( at ) limguohong ( dot ) com

On 2 side note,
1. Seems like I am really going to be sick soon, keep coughing. Esp after watching Inception. It wasnt that bad this afternoon. Inception is a nice movie!
2. Finally, i am only left with mysql to move before I can move limguohong.com to a Windows Server! Hope that the index.php problem will not happen.

Thursday is the prize presentation. Although I am not putting in high hopes for it but then, lets hope for the best.

On a side note, I have yet to transfer my host. Still have some trouble backing up all my data..

Alright, off to do work! =)

Call to a member function add_rewrite_tag() on a non-object in…

Did a quick research and they ask me to deactivate my plugin which i did. ( Link here ) and here we go, it works… now I have to figure out, which plugin causes the problem before I continue.

Not long after I woke up this afternoon, i receive an email stating we are shortedlisted and have to present tomorrow, meaning to say we are in top 12. Congrats team!

Time to get busy tonight to prepare for the presentation tomorrow. Seems like my plan to move hosting today will fail.

1 picture from codeXtremeApps 2010, proudly sponsored by M1.

I have codeXtremeApps 2010 which I will be using Project Nimbus ( http://www.projectnimbus.org )
You will be asking, what is codeXtremeApps and Project Nimbus.

Basically, codeXtremeApps is a 24 hours round-the-clock competition organised by ITSC, we were to use one of the 3 technologies which they provide.

Taken directly from their website ( http://www.projectnimbus.org )
“Project Nimbus is an initiative that hopes to solve innovators’ problem of finding data sets and services by offering a central place for authoritative and reliable data and services access from government and commercial entities in Singapore.”

This will start on Friday night to Saturday night. Interesting. Shall blog what happen when I am at SMU. Afterwhich, I have a “free” Sunday, i suppose. I will use that whole day to make sure my blog is properly revamped and moved away from Hostgator to a Windows Server. The move is not that Hostgator isn’t good but I find it pointless having 3 hosting with 3 different companies now. I rather move it to a platform, Windows, which I am more comfortable with now.

Almost 3am, time to sleep. Night!

After I get all folders copied and pasted onto my local drive, I am left with the mysql database then I am ready to move out of Hostgator.

Lets see.

1. Transfer all stuffs out of this hosting<- Have been doing this for quite long already and still doing it..
2. Setup a new blog with this MYSQL database
3. Choose a new template
4. Update About Me / Side Bar
5. Check ALL Links
6. Add in My projects / Facebook / Twitter / Tutorials
7. Add in CV.
8. Change personal page

- Leaders must be firm!
- Leaders must not to be affected by emotions to make your decisions.
- I will not allow my family and friends to be bullied.

Also, to leave you guys with,

Recently someone’s mother whom i know passed away, i wanted to attend the wake yet I cant due to family belief of chinese 19 years old cannot go red/white event. ( Wedding – red / funeral – white ). So I have to ask someone else to give the “white silver” (Bai Jin). In fact, i had an heated arugment with my mum because of this getting me very pissed and upset.

Due to the death of his mother, I have been requested to take his classes cause he cant help to instruct. I tried my best to shift my schedule around already so I can help him, taking his classes. But I cant take his Monday afternoon class because of my commitement in school and I cant miss anymore lessons in school. I have already tried my best to help and assist. Just because I cant help on Monday afternoon class, i was called being “unloyal” to my brother. I was wondering what is wrong when I have already tried my best? The comment from him is a simple comment and totally mean no harm but sometimes I was thinking, whatever you have done for others can just be spoilt by just 1 “wrong” action of yours? I know it hurts when it lost a parent, in fact, i got very emotional because he lost his mum. Ask my classmate, I have been abnormal in school today. I even almost had an arugment because of that.

I cant accept a fact when someone lost their parents because I myself who is very very weak is very scare that the same thing will happen to me. I am weak, period. I am just learning how to accept life. I am scare i will lost my parents too. Maybe just because of my “wrong” action, if my parents passed away, no one will help me and the worse, i am alone. I don’t know.. I have this feeling. If my parents passed away, I am not gonna tell anyone? I don’t know..

In sumamry, i am just thinking, just a wrong action of yours, can result in all the trust you have built to be gone?

She is someone who is not even blood related to me. My sister. I don’t know, but what i know now is that i cannot afford to lose someone who is close to me..Sometimes when I am feeling sad and down, she is one of the first person i can talk to without any barrier. Haiz, I am going to miss this sister of mine. The feeling isn’t good. She is going for 4-8 years.. I know we can still contact and talk to each other through skype, msn but the feeling seriously.. Awww really feel sucky

Wishing her all the best when she is in Aus.