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101 Windows Phone 7 Apps - Adam Nathan

Although I have been developing Windows Phone 7 apps for over 12 months now, I saw 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps by Adam Nathan and it looked interesting. I put in a 'request' for the book for Father's Day. It was delivered earlier this week, and...

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 3:52 PM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, Developer Tools, Adam Nathan, apps, applications

First Windows Phone 7 Workshop - Birmingham March 26th 2011

Last Saturday, we held the first of our free Windows Phone 7 Workshops - hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did. Special thanks to Mike Ormond for coming along and pitching in, plus talking about Marketplace submission. The venue was the excellent...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 4:48 AM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: appamundi, Windows Phone 7, workshops, Mindscape, Birmingham

Windows Phone 7 - No Fragment support right now

We were getting reports of this occurring in one of our apps, but it was proving difficult to track down, despite our app emailing a stack trace and other details when we got an error. Peter did some judicious searching, and found that other people had...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2011 9:01 AM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, dispatchertimer, dispatcher, no fragment support right now, timer

Windows Phone 7 Developer Workshop Days - Win a Phone - Win an Xbox System - Free $299 Software to every attendee!

APPA Mundi are running 4 developer workshop days 26th March 2011 - The Studio - Birmingham REGISTER 2nd April 2011 - Hallam Conference Centre, London REGISTER 9th April 2011 - Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester REGISTER 16th April 2011 - LBi Centre...

Published Sun, Mar 20 2011 12:48 PM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, developer workshopt, develope

Validating input forms in Windows Phone 7

Validating text box fields in any application has always been a pain, and I have always tried to use short-cuts to validate input. Windows Phone 7 is no exception, so hopefully this will help you ease through field validation. My ideal method has always...

Published Sun, Feb 20 2011 2:20 PM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: textbox, Windows Phone 7, validate, tag, input forms validation

Windows Phone 7 multi-line radio buttons

One of the great things about APPA Mundi is the wealth of knowledge held by my colleagues. We have recently released a Pop Quiz for Windows Phone 7 , and the answers are selected using radio buttons. My problem was that some of the questions were too...

Published Mon, Dec 06 2010 9:13 AM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, multi-line, wrap, radiobutton, multi line, radio button

Windows Phone 7 Linq to XML 'strangeness'.

I have been developing a new WP7 application recently, using XML to store the data. We have used XML extensively in the past to store data and settings, but this is the first 'heavy' use of adding/updating/deleting records using XML files in isolated...

Published Mon, Dec 06 2010 6:53 AM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, update xml record, delete xml record, add xml record, xml corrupt file, windows phone 7 linq to xml, linq to xml

Resco release new Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

I have blogged about Resco tools in the past - got an email today to say they have released their Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 There are 15 controls included supporting multiple mobile platforms including Windows Mobile. Some controls are optional...

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 5:07 AM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: Resco, Windows Phone 7, Developer Tools

GUI Interface for CapabilityDetection.exe

Microsoft have released a great utility for Windows Phone 7 - CapabilityDetection.exe. This was released with the Windows Phone Tools Update as reported in Peters' blog , and will scan your Windows Phone 7 project and determine what capabilities it...

Published Tue, Nov 02 2010 4:07 PM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, CapabilityDetection.exe, Developer Tools

Playing wav files on Windows Phone 7

For one of our apps for Marketplace , I decided I needed to play a sound notification under certain circumstances. I added a reference to Microsoft.Xna.Framework and then using Microsoft.Xna.Framework; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio; Then the code...

Published Wed, Sep 29 2010 6:20 AM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: Windows Phone 7, .wav, wav, TitleContainer.OpenStream

VB for Windows Phone 7 CTP released

For those put off by the fact Windows Phone 7 development was C# only, Microsoft have today released VB for Windows Phone 7 CTP - get it while it hot!

Published Thu, Sep 23 2010 9:12 AM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: CTP, Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, VB

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools - Final Release

6 months after the CTP of the Windows Phone Developer Tools, the final version is released today. Read about it here and download them here . The development team have done a great job, and Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone is a great, easy...

Published Thu, Sep 16 2010 1:38 PM by Pete Vickers

Filed under: Odeon, Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, Developer Day, Printworks, Manchester

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...

Published Sun, Aug 15 2010 4:13 AM by Pete Vickers

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,...

Published Sat, Aug 07 2010 4:28 AM by Pete Vickers

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...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 2:06 AM by Pete Vickers

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

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