Jeff Wilcox is a developer on the Silverlight team and has been working on the Silverlight for Windows Phone initiative as well as the toolkit released today. He was headed out on vacation but decided to throw out some words of wisdom for Windows Phone developers working in Silverlight. Here’s some of those nuggets –... Continue Reading →
Silverlight Sites on Symbian S60 (Tested on Nokia N97)
BING Toolbar Functionality NB The development team has a blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slsymbian/archive/2010/04/05/silverlight-for-symbian-development-experience.aspx I will add to this list as I come across sites that work on the N97. Please leave a comment if you would like to suggest a site that you know works well on Symbian S60. UPDATE: I note from the... Continue Reading →
WP7 TOMBSTONING – State – Launching, Closing, Deactivated and Closing Events
As you probably aware, WP7 only allows one application to run in the foreground at any given time and no 3rd party applications are allowed to run in the background. Therefore when a user navigates away from your application, either to a chooser like picture chooser, or to a launcher like phone call,... Continue Reading →
WP7 Dev Labs
A rewarding day at Microsoft's’ WP7 Developer labs in London in the Company of Technical Evangelist Paul Foster. I started the day with the mandatory Starbucks and straight into an opportunity to play with one of the few WP7 devices in the UK (a pre-release phone from LG). Paul had linked his Facebook account... Continue Reading →
Shove Halfpenny
http://apps.WebServicesUK.com/Shove Since finding out that the world championships for this old pub game are often held locally (Cheltenham & Bath) it has been in the back of my mind to bring this game to Windows Phone 7. My Dad remembers playing and I picked his brain for the rules, essentially the objective is to get... Continue Reading →
3 Screens and a cloud
I suppose the above has been in the back of my mind, along with the target audience for Windows Mobile 7 (so called “Life Maximisers”) and I thought I would take a moment to review and reflect on how my own WP7 apps sit within this framework. “Nuke Your Office” (http://apps.webservicesuk.com/nukeyouroffice) Although still under... Continue Reading →
Windows Phone 7 Guidelines
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/B/A/ABA09BC7-8338-4C04-9DA9-1224CD575636/Windows%20Phone%207%20Application%20Certification%20Requirements.pdfNo great surprises, no porn or excessive violence/profanity etc.
Scott Guthrie – Birmingham 26/03/10
The folks that run DDD put on this special event which featured a whole day of presentations by the ‘one and only’ Scott Guthrie. The day started well with a personal hello from the man himself (OK, he just happened to look up as I got to the top of the stairs so I thrust... Continue Reading →
Windows Phone 7 – WP7
Getting some great feedback on my WP7 project from the guys on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/534309-My-First-Windows-Mobile-7-App/?wa=wsignin1.0&Page=2#Page=1
The Eco Olympics
Put a lot of work into this over a very short period of time and was quite chuffed with the result (see http://TheEcoOlympics.com). I like the basic functionality and plan on making it data driven so that I can easily add new events over time. Still need to do some more work on ensuring that... Continue Reading →
Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . . 