Controls in Windows Phone 8

Controls in Windows Phone 8

For windows phone 8 lot of controls available for developer in  Visual Studio Express ToolBox. Below the list of common controls and Third party Controls windows phone 8.

Common Controls

*Application Bar

*Button

*CheckBox

*HyperLink Button

*Image

*MediaElement

*MultiScaleImage

*PasswordBox

*Popup

*MessageBox

*RadioButton

*RichTextBox

*Slider

*TextBlock

*TextBox

*ToggleButton

*WebBrowser

Thrid party Controls

*AutoCompleteBox

*ContextMenu

*CustomMessageBox

*DatePicker

*HubTitle

*MapExtension

*ExpanderView

*LongListMultiSelector –ListView

*LongListMultiSelector – GridView

*ListPicker

*ToggleSwitch

Json parsing in windows phone 8 example

Json parsing in windows phone 8 example

This post about how parse the json data . I try to parse the data of my Facebook page data.
Json sample Data

Json URL:  http://graph.facebook.com/277606122281580

{"id": "277606122281580",

"about": "about android",

"can_post": false,

"category": "Professional services",

"checkins": 0,

"cover": {"cover_id": 512339345474922,"offset_x": 0,"offset_y": 45,"source": "https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/11173_512339345474922_179744400_n.png"},

"has_added_app": false,

"is_community_page": false,

"is_published": true,

"likes": 966,

"link": "https://www.facebook.com/pages/Android-Beginning-For-Beginners/277606122281580",

"location": {"city": "Salem","country": "India","street": "thandanur","zip": "636117"},

"name": "Android Beginning For-Beginners",

"phone": "09048382536",

"price_range": "$ (0-10)",

"talking_about_count": 24,

"website": "http://www.iamvijayakumar.blogspot.com/","were_here_count": 0}

I have created  Button , Progressbar and TextBlock. xzml source code

main.xaml

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage

x:Class="VjFirst.MainPage"

xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"

xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"

mc:Ignorable="d"

Background="Chartreuse"

FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"

FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"

Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"

SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"

shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">

<!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="LimeGreen">

<Grid.RowDefinitions>

<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>

<RowDefinition Height="*"/>

</Grid.RowDefinitions>

<!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->

<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="3,0,21,0">

<Button Content="Fetch Data From My FB Page" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="62,153,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Click="Button_Click" />

<ProgressBar Name="ProgressBarRequest" IsIndeterminate="True" Visibility="Collapsed" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="10" Margin="83,84,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="100"/>

<TextBlock  Name="Category" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="35,405,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap"  VerticalAlignment="Top"/>

<TextBlock  Name="PageName" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="37,476,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap"  VerticalAlignment="Top"/>

<TextBlock  Name="Phone" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="35,553,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap"  VerticalAlignment="Top"/>

</Grid>

<TextBlock   Name="Address" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="40,328,0,0" Grid.Row="1" TextWrapping="Wrap"  VerticalAlignment="Top"/>

</Grid>

</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>

Button Onclick i tried to parse the data and showing in textblock

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Net;

using System.Windows;

using System.Windows.Controls;

using System.Windows.Documents;

using System.Windows.Input;

using System.Windows.Media;

using System.Windows.Media.Animation;

using System.Windows.Shapes;

using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;

using Newtonsoft.Json;

using System.Windows.Navigation;

using Microsoft.Phone.Shell;

using VjFirst.Resources;

namespace VjFirst

{

    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage

    {

        // Constructor

        public MainPage()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }

        //}

    private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

        {

            //No exception handling has been performed in the code and should be adjust as per requirements.

            WebClient webClient = new WebClient();

            webClient.DownloadStringCompleted += webClient_DownloadStringCompleted;

            ProgressBarRequest.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;

            webClient.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri("http://graph.facebook.com/277606122281580"));

        }

    void webClient_DownloadStringCompleted(object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)

        {

            try

            {

                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(e.Result))

                {

                    //Parse JSON result as POCO

                    var root1 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(e.Result);

                    this.DataContext = root1;

                   // MessageBox.Show(root1.about + "   Total Likes"+root1.likes);

                    Category.Text = "Category : "+root1.category;

                    PageName.Text = "Page Name : " + root1.name;

                    Address.Text = "Website : " + root1.website;

                    Phone.Text = "Likes : " + root1.likes;

                }

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());

            }

            finally

            {

                ProgressBarRequest.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;

            }

        }

    }

    public class RootObject

    {

        public string about { get; set; }

        public string category { get; set; }

        public string company_overview { get; set; }

        public bool is_published { get; set; }

        public string mission { get; set; }

        public string products { get; set; }

        public int talking_about_count { get; set; }

        public string username { get; set; }

        public string website { get; set; }

        public int were_here_count { get; set; }

        public string id { get; set; }

        public string name { get; set; }

        public string link { get; set; }

        public int likes { get; set; }

      

    }

  

  

}