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Another 4am start to the day, this time for my second ‘Guathon’ which was held in London at the Odeon, Shaftsbury Avenue. On arriving at Victoria station at 7am I decided that I had enough time to completely avoid the Tube and walk to the venue (if you have ever used the tube during the... Continue Reading →
Got myself a real live Shove HalfPenny board from eBay today – figured that it would be a great family activity over the Summer break, the kids are off school for 6 weeks so we are holding our own ‘Shove HalfPenny championship’! On a dev note its Perhaps just as well that I got... Continue Reading →
25/08/2010 - PocketPC live – Short review of Metro Drummer. http://pocketpc-live.com/utilities/-drummer-app-for-windows-phone-7.html 23/08/2010 – PocketNow.com – Short review of Metro Drummer. http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/metro-drummer-percussion-app-for-windows-phone-7 6/08/2010 – Computer Weekly (asked to comment on W7/Silverlight/WP7/tablet development. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/08/06/242283/Windows-7-proves-a-hit-with-developers.htm 23/07/2010 – The Silverlight Show (Reference to this blog & “Nuke Your Office” WP7 App). Silverlight & XNA together on WP7 23/07/2010 –... Continue Reading →
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 →
I am developing most of my WP7 apps in Silverlight 3, then doing whatever porting is necessary to get them running on WP7 (the final stage is then optimising for WP7, but that’s another story). ‘Nuke Your Office’ (http://apps.webservicesuk.com/NukeYourOffice) has a lot going on sound-wise (multiple WMA files fired at random and in parallel). ... Continue Reading →
Launchers are a set of APIs that Windows Phone applications can use to enable common tasks such as making a phone call or sending an email. Unlike Choosers, Launchers do not return a value back to the calling application. Using Launchers in Your Application. The Launcher APIs are belong to the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace. You need... Continue Reading →
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 →
One of my workmates summed up my first visit to Redmond when he informed everyone I was going on holiday to my “spiritual home”. Since then I’ve been out to visit Microsoft’s Redmond campus a couple of times. It’s a great experience, it’s a large centre, but in no way on the same scale as... Continue Reading →
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 →
In building my WP7 apps I have taken the approach of dual coding wherever possible, that is to say that each solution has both a standard Silverlight project and a Windows Phone 7 project, with shared code (using shortcuts within the project) wherever possible. My objective is to have the Silverlight Desktop version mimic the... Continue Reading →
Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . . 