the URI class has a few helper methods such as Uri.EscapeUriString and Uri.EscapeDataString. If you want access to the URL params (eg ?x=y&a=b) then...

Unless there's a huge paying market and hundreds of millions at stake, it will never happen.

Ah, I didn't realise that - if Jeff Wilcox says it, then it's not possible (he was a dev on the Windows Phone team)

You can use WP ThemeManager to achieve the same result... https://github.com/jeffwilcox/wp-thememanager

When you're on the UI thread (which are you are by default within an app), UI controls can update the screen no problem. But as soon as you're off...

Using Loukt's 'First Launch' code, another option is to use the CustomMessageBox from the WP Toolkit which has a full-screen option, examples can be...

Although that's valid, you're limited to key/value pairs - and it's not possible to pass objects that way.

As mentioned by others, Portable Class Libraries are useful when you want to write code to target multiple platforms (eg. WP7 and WP8). I would also...

Although the API you mention does work (it's something a bit slow to detect network changes!), there are still lots of situations where it can't...

That's a perfectly good way to do it. Another benefit is that the 'global' state dictionary will survive suspend/tombstoning.

Are you targeting Windows Phone 7, 8 or both?

Done! ... now only 2 or 3 wiki guides left to write ;)

Ok, my solution suits a little better then - my script does a find + replace on a few entries in WMAppManifest, builds, then undoes the changes. ...

I've used Flurry since last year and it works well. I've added lots of event logging to keep track of a) what features work and b) how long certain...

Understood. The XAP is actually encrypted when it's submitted to the store (you can still rename it to .ZIP and open it after a Build on your local...

But what does that mean? When you encrypt the data and the app has a password, what other features would you like?

Ah, I was just curious to see if the Store Test Kit would catch the missing 'capability' or not. Great app btw, it looks really good - I hope...

I think that if you have a good case for this navigation flow, then go ahead. As you say, Twitter uses it on Windows Phone and I can think of a...