July Windows Phone Guru - Isenthil's "Location API in Windows Phone 8"
It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner!
Congratulations to Isenthil, our Windows Phone Development Guru winner for July! See the TechNet Guru Contributions for July 2013.
This is Isenthil's second Guru gold medal!
About Isenthil: Software Engineer, .NET Geek, and Windows Phone Fanboy
Here is the gold-medal-winning article:
Location API in Windows Phone 8
Now let's look at all the winning articles:
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Windows Phone Technical Guru - July 2013 |
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Senthil Kumar (isenthil) | Location API in Windows Phone 8 | JS: "Best written and most complete" Ed Price: "This is a very well rounded article. It would be perfect with even more explanations around the various concepts. Good fix by Isenthil from feedback in the comments!" |
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Lohith Goudagere Nagaraj | Text To Speech in Windows Phone 8 | JS: "Is OK" Ed Price: "An important topic from Lohith with good explanations. As Nitesh says in the comments: "Nice and Easy, Lohith!"" |
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Ken Tucker | How to use Sqlite with a Windows Phone 8 app | JS: "Nice, but not enough documentation" Ed Price: "Good code formatting. The images are helpful. It could use more explanations and details for each step." |
Congratulations to Senthil for taking Gold, and to Ken and Lohith for Silver and Bronze. Some great subjects covered in July. Let's hope August is even better!
And here's an excerpt from the article:
Capabilities
The Location capabilities has to be set in the app manifest file for the app to work fine when using the location APIs.
If the Location capabilities are not set in manifest file, the following is the behaviour.
1. If the App is targeted at Windows Phone 7.1, then a status error will be received when trying to start the GeoCoordinate Watcher.
2. If the App is targeted at Windows Phone 8, then the app will throw UnauthorizedAccessException.
Setting the location capabilities is pretty easy, you will need to include the ID_CAP_LOCATION in the Capabilities section of your WMAppManifest.xml . Note that you should also be setting the ID_CAP_NETWORKING.
<``Capabilities``>
<``CapabilityName``=``"ID_CAP_LOCATION"/>< Capability Name="ID_CAP_NETWORKING"/>
...
</``Capabilities``>
If you are using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, you can add the capabilities with the GUI editor as shown in the below screenshot.
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Read the rest here:
Location API in Windows Phone 8
Thanks to Isenthil for your great contribution to the TechNet Guru contest! You can read about all the July winners here: TechNet Guru Awards - July 2013
Also, for the August Guru competition, see TechNet Guru Contributions - August 2013.
Please join me in congratulating Senthil on his second gold medal Guru win!
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