Andy Wigley

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...

Published Wed, Aug 18 2010 10:44 AM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, wp7dev, Silverlightverlight

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...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 3:48 PM by Andy Wigley

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...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 3:36 PM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, wp7dev

Programming Silverlight for Windows Embedded from .NET – Part 2

In this series of posts, I explain how you can use a Silverlight for Windows Embedded (SWE) UI but write all your application logic using C# or Visual Basic. In the first post , you can find the example code and links to the slides and video recording...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 1:28 PM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: Windows Embedded Compact, Silverlight, SWE, Silverlight for Windows Embedded, Windows CE

Programming Silverlight for Windows Embedded from .NET

Today at Tech Ed in New Orleans, I gave a presentation on how to use a Silverlight for Windows Embedded (SWE) UI from a .NET Compact Framework app. SWE is available for Windows CE 6.0 R3 and Windows Embedded Compact 7, but in both cases it ships with...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 5:04 PM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: Windows Embedded Compact, Silverlight, SWE, Silverlight for Windows Embedded, Windows CE

Perst - a database for Windows Phone 7 Silverlight - Part 2

In this post, I explain some of the key logic in the Perst sample showing how to create a database and create, delete, read and search records. You'll need to look at the full sample code that you can download from the previous post on this topic...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 12:05 PM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: Silverlight, Perst, Windows Phone 7, wp7dev

Perst - a database for Windows Phone 7 Silverlight

Download Source Code **UPDATED for Beta libraries 21st July 2010** There has been some comment about the lack of a client side database for Windows Phone 7 Silverlight. Windows Phone 7 does have SQL Server Compact Edition installed in the OS image, but...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 6:10 AM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: Silverlight, Perst, Windows Phone 7, wp7dev

Tech Ed North America

I will be in New Orleans next week for Tech Ed North America (7th through 10th June). I am speaking on Thursday morning at 9:45am in Room 283. The presentation is called WEM309 - Programming Microsoft Silverlight for Windows Embedded Using Microsoft ...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 9:01 AM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: Windows Embedded Compact, Silverlight

Windows Phone 7 Series Announced

Yesterday, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft announced their new mobile phone strategy and platform. As Peter Foot has already reported in his blog ( http://mobileworld.appamundi.com/blogs/peterfoot/archive/2010/02/15/developing-for-windows...

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 4:27 AM by Andy Wigley

Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Toolkit now available!

The Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Toolkit is now available! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e There are downloads for WM6.5 Professional and Standard - the Professional version...

Published Thu, Jun 04 2009 7:49 AM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: Windows Mobile 6.5

TechEd Online: Can Windows Mobile UIs Look as Good as the iPhone?

Love it or loathe it, nobody can deny that the Apple iPhone set a new bar for what constitutes a good mobile UI. In the Windows Mobile development community, many of us have been exploring ways of enhancing the UI of the apps we build to give a rich,...

Published Fri, May 22 2009 7:39 AM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: TechEd, Webcast

TechEd Online: Extend Dynamics AX and NAV to Devices with Microsoft Dynamics Mobile

If you are a Microsoft Partner selling Dynamics AX and NAV solutions, you should know about Microsoft Dynamics Mobile. This allows you to extend the system to incorporate mobile devices. One of Appamundi's specialities is in delivering training and...

Published Fri, May 22 2009 7:35 AM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: TechEd, Webcast, Dynamics Mobile

TechEd Online: patterns & practices Mobile Application Blocks v.Next

Anyone remember the Mobile Client Software factory? If you have read our Microsoft Press book, Mobile Development Handbook , you will know that quite a few of the security and web service samples use application blocks from the MCSF. Unfortunately, it's...

Published Fri, May 22 2009 7:01 AM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: TechEd, Webcast, MCSF, Mobile App Blocks

TechEd Online: Windows Mobile Application Development

Last week in Los Angeles, Andrej Radinger and myself took part in a panel discussion with fellow MVPs Ginny Caughey and Alex Feinman, along with Microsoft's Loke Uei Tan, John Bruno, Jorge Peraza and Steve Bell. Constanze Roman of Microsoft led the...

Published Fri, May 22 2009 6:53 AM by Andy Wigley

Filed under: TechEd, Webcast

Sync Services: Implementing Batching to Reduce Data Transfer Volumes

Synchronization Services supports a limited batching capability which performs multiple transfers of the changed data in smaller batches from server to client, rather than all the changed rows in one go. In order to understand how batching works, you...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 6:59 AM by Andy Wigley

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