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  1. Remove Appointment.IsPrivate limitation

    if an user creates an Appointment marking it as private, the Windows Phone 7.5 standard Calendar app shows it as usual, with the flag 'personal' (and not 'private', not in the Italian translation at least) checked.

    but a thirdy app cannot show it properly, because if Appointment.IsPrivate = true, then Appointment.Subject and Appointment.Details are null.

    in my opinion, the 'personal' - or 'private' - flag is meant to control Appointment visibility to shared calendars with other users - think at my shared calendar with my wife and an Appointment to buy her a gift. infact, if I create a Google…

    344 votes
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      2 comments  ·  Structured Data  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Access to sub-calendar of account to recover Name and color

      Currently we have only access to the name and the type of an account.
      If a user has defined sub calendar, we are not able to recover the name and the color of the sub-calendar.
      This prevent us from creating a good display of appointment. We are not able to distinguish appointment from the different sub calendar.
      For one account, we can only defined one color for ALL sub-calendar

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        0 comments  ·  Structured Data  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Native SQLite database support

        In addition to the existing database support, please add support for SQLite databases, without a LINQ layer like for SQLCE. Just a raw database with SQL commands like we are used to. SQLite is platform independent, that means it is easy to exchange data between Windows, Windows Phone, Android and iOS devices.

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          1 comment  ·  Structured Data  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Allow Change the first Windows Live account

          There is no way to modify the first WL account in WP7....XD
          1. If I lend my new WP7 to my parent before WL registration, my parent's people will be keeping in this device. That is not important for me.
          2. If my WP device installed many apps lent my wife, she can't switch my WL account to her WL account.

          10 votes
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          • Isolated Storage

            Can We Have shared Isolate File so that all the application in the device can share the Global Data.Instead of keeping the same data in each isolated storage file for each app.This Feature may reduce replication of data.

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              2 comments  ·  Structured Data  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Share data between apps

              A developer should be able to grant access to another app for data access. So if an app does contacts then another app could query the contact data instead of providing it's own mechanism for contacts.

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              • Provide a generic Chooser that could bring all the details together

                I want to have a chooser that pops up, and discloses all information about a particular contact like Home Number, Mobile Number, Email Address, Name, Display Name, Photo. 3rd party integrated stuff like facebook etc. would also be good. But right now I sincerely feel that we need a generic chooser rather than a chooser for every specific detail.

                7 votes
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                  0 comments  ·  Structured Data  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Sortable Observable Collection

                  Currently for dynamic data binding controlls like listbox, <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms668604%28v=vs.95%29.aspx">ObservableCollection</a> is recommended. However the collection does not implement Sort, and it does even implement Move (so you can implement sorting on your own by extending it). Can we have a sortable observable collection for WP7?

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                  • Allow to set a value to IsDbGenerated fields

                    SQLCE for WP7 should allow us to assign explicitely a value to Identity fields marked as IsDbGenerated fields. Currently SQL Server allows it throw this command. SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TableName ON

                    It would be great SQLCE for WP7 allows us to set this option using attributes of the Table/Class. In fact other multiplatform databases that work for WP7 as Siaqodb include this and even other features SQLCE for WP7 still not.

                    6 votes
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                      1 comment  ·  Structured Data  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • GPS data storage.

                      A lot of programs provide navigation and GPS maps.
                      Some of them allows user to store "Favorites".
                      But they did not integrate each other: If I save POI in one program it will not be shown in other.
                      I suggests to add some kind of Storage to store GPS POI.
                      In addition this storage may have integration with contacts to allow user have geographical map of his contacts.

                      6 votes
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                      • Allow game/application data to survive install/re-install

                        Currently all data is lost when uninstalling but it would be nice if Zune kept it and put it back when re-installing. That way if my phone gets too full, I can remove a large app e.g. a roleplay game with lots of hours of playtime and then when I have space, reload it and resume where I left off. This annoys the heck out of me on the iPhone so I would love it if we could do better!

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                          1 comment  ·  Structured Data  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Dialing security codes from third party apps

                          Please allow us to dial security code from third party apps. To make it safe, you can notify the user if the application uses security code at the time of installation.

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                          • fetch sip call history from the api

                            fetching the sip call history is useful to the user to see the sip call detailscall

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                              0 comments  ·  Structured Data  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Holiday/Birthday/etc. 'Appointments' need to be clearly identified

                              When querying Appointments, a bundle of Appointments will be returned that contain zero information or information that cannot be meaningfully filtered. When I'm trying to present relevant and important details of scheduled appointments (I'm talking about those scheduled by real people and not the stuff that's been added automatically) I've got no way to filter out these additional things that are also considered Appointments. This data is obviously stored somewhere, it's obvious from being able to turn on/off and select colors for each type in the native Calendar app. Many people would propose filtering out based on the All-Day Event…

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                              • Media picker control/API

                                A media picker control that you could activate that would let the user go through their media library and check off a list of songs or videos. This would also be very nice so that you could add a 'create playlist' feature into the music+video hub.

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