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WPH303 Triskaidekaphobia - Session Code

Attached is the code from today's session. The Windows Mobile 6 project requires Visual Studio 2008 and the Windows Mobile 6 SDK. The Windows Phone 7 project requires the Windows Phone 7 Development tools Beta. I'll blog separately about some...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 08-31-2010

DataContractSerializer and Internal types

Under Silverlight only public types may be serialized with the DataContractSerializer. If you want to make your data classes internal to your assembly and serialise them for use in a WCF service you will find that the service call will fail at runtime...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 08-22-2010

Filed under: Windows Phone, Code

Windows Phone 7 Jump Start training Online!

Microsoft have finished processing all the video from the two days of online training that fellow MVP Rob Miles and myself delivered last month. They’ve removed the worst of the jokes and left in all the best bits, leaving 12 50 minute sessions...

Posted to Andy Wigley by Andy Wigley on 08-18-2010

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, wp7dev, Silverlightverlight

Windows Phone 7, VS2010 and VMWare

As anyone who has read my blog may know, I am a great fan of using Virtual Machines for development, but keeping my source code on my 'main' drive for security and backup purposes. Up until recently, I couldn't do this, as I had problems running...

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 08-15-2010

Filed under: Windows Phone 7 development, VS2010, VMWare Workstation

Data connection when travelling

I do a reasonable amount of travelling, and spend quite a bit of time in Menorca. I have a Vodafone ES dongle for this, which gives me unlimited 3G access for €20 for 7 days, and have been using this for over a year without a problem. Last week,...

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 08-07-2010

Filed under: Internet Sharing, Windows Mobile, Zoom 3G wireless-n desktop router

Windows Phone 7 UI Guide and Design Templates

Microsoft has update the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 for the newly release beta. At the same time, also available are Design Templates for Windows Phone 7 These are a collection of 28 layered Photoshop template files and the Segoe...

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 07-29-2010

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, Design Templates, UI Design

Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart Training - Recordings available

If you didn't get to see the excellent Jumpstart Training sessions last week, the recordings are now available here . For anyone who didn't get to attend this event 'live', and wants to know more about writing apps for Windows Phone 7...

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 07-24-2010

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, recordings, reactivation, tombstoning, Jumpstart

Uninstalling the Windows Phone 7 CTP

If you are having problems uninstalling the Windows Phone 7 CTP, take a look at the excellent link from Nick Beradi

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 07-13-2010

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, uninstall, CTP

Updated Windows Phone 7 Training

Microsoft have updated their Windows Phone 7 Training kit for Developers - get it here

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 07-13-2010

Filed under: Windows Phone 7 Training

Windows Phone 7 Jump Start

Our esteemed colleague Andy Wigley, along with Rob Miles will be doing FREE on-line training for Windows Phone 7 next week. You can register for the event here - it is sure to be popular, so book early!

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 07-13-2010

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, Training, Andy Wigley

Get Trained – Windows Phone 7 Jump Start

Windows Phone 7 JumpStart is a FREE virtual live class for developers interested in developing applications and games for Windows Phone 7. The Microsoft Phone 7 team are providing this in partnership with the MS Learning team. The course is organized...

Posted to Andy Wigley by Andy Wigley on 07-12-2010

Filed under: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, wp7dev

Migrating WP7 April CTP projects to WP7 Beta

The Beta of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools has been released today! Get them from http://developer.windowsphone.com . If you have been building projects using the April CTP of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools, you’ll find a number of changes needed...

Posted to Andy Wigley by Andy Wigley on 07-12-2010

Filed under: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, wp7dev

Review: .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Data Driven Applications

Like Peter Nowak I was asked to review this recent release. Unfortunately due to other commitments it has taken the best part of a month to finish it. To avoid repeating the same points I recommend you read Peter’s review . While the current focus at...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 07-05-2010

Filed under: Books

VS2008 - An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket.

We have recently been doing a .Net CF project, where the device doesn't connect to the development PC using Activesync, but is connected via WiFi or even Infra Red. Peter had a problem trying to deploy the project, and kept getting the message 'An...

Posted to Pete Vickers by Pete Vickers on 06-30-2010

Filed under: An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket, VS2008

Microsoft Surface Bluetooth Connect Code Sample

APPA Mundi recently worked with the Microsoft Surface team to put together a code sample showing the exchange of information from a Surface to a nearby Bluetooth enabled phone using standard protocols. This means that any phone which supports standard...

Posted to Peter Foot by Peter Foot on 06-21-2010

Filed under: Code

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