WP7: My scrollviewer doesn’t work!

If you ever find yourself wondering why your ScrollViewer does not kick in (as I was wondering!); you have most likely forgotten what I did.

You need to set the height and width of the scrollviewer explicitly to make it work.

   </controls:PivotItem>

            <controls:PivotItem Header="legal">
                <ScrollViewer Width="460" Height="700">
                    <StackPanel x:Name="stkPnl"/>
                </ScrollViewer>
            </controls:PivotItem>
        </controls:Pivot>

The size of this control (ScrollViewer) is simply a “window” to your data that allows you to scroll the content of this window. Due to this reason – you need to tell WP7 that it should only display a fixed window of data to the User.

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Get the versioninfo of a WP7 application

Quick cut/paste for the masses:

public static class Utilities
{
  /// <summary>
  /// Gets the version info of the executing assembly.
  /// </summary>
  /// <returns></returns>
  public static string GetVersionInfo()
  {
    string asmName = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().FullName;  //format = HelloWorld, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null

    string[] splits = asmName.Split(',');
    return splits[1]; //Version 1.0.0.0
  }
}

This will return to you this string: ‘Version 1.0.0.0’

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