Congratulations to Isenthil, our Windows Phone Development Guru winner for May 2013! To find all the competitors for May (and more information about this monthly contest), see the Wiki article: TechNet Guru Awards, May 2013.
About Isenthil: Software Engineer, .NET Geek, and Windows Phone Fanboy
Isenthil ran the table for the Windows Phone category in May. Here was his winning contribution:
Retrieving the Screen Resolution for Windows Phone 8 Emulator
Here are our Windows Phone winners for May:
 | Windows Phone Technical Guru - May 2013 |
| isenthil | Retrieving the Screen Resolution for Windows Phone 8 Emulator |
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| isenthil | Windows Phone 8 SDK and Windows 7 |
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| isenthil | Oxygene and Windows Phone 8 - Introduction |
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"isenthil" was our only entrant for the Win Phone category and is walking away with a box of medals! :D
Here is an excerpt from the article:
The Windows Phone 8 supports 3 different screen resolutions like WVGA,WXGA,720P.
If you are a developer and wants to retrieve the screen resolution dynamically , you can use the ScaleFactor property defined in App.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor.
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Read the entire article here (including the code snippet):
Retrieving the Screen Resolution for Windows Phone 8 Emulator
Thanks again to Isenthil for a great contribution! You can read about all the May winners here: TechNet Guru Awards - May 2013
See the June contributions here: TechNet Guru Contributions - June 2013
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