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We had great fun presenting the XNA sessions for Tech.Days Online Conference last week. From a secret location (just off the M42 J4) a crack team of XNA developers gathered to present four sessions covering Artificial Intelligence, Collision detection, Advanced Rendering and the Synapse Gaming’s Sunburn game engine for XNA on Windows Phone 7. I’ve collected together a few useful links for each of the sessions below. The session recordings and slide decks available very soon – I’ll add links when...

Is this the first Windows Phone 7 handset in the stratosphere? On Friday morning, Southampton university launched a Windows Phone 7 handset in to the upper atmosphere using a helium balloon and logged scientific data using a Windows Phone 7 app and Windows Azure. Here is the full breakdown from Dr Andras Sobester: “Part of the ASTRA (Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft) initiative ( http://www.soton.ac.uk/~astra/ ), the goal of this flight was to demonstrate the feasibility of using a low...

David S. Platt’s first, last and only law of user experience design: “Know Thy User, for He Is Not Thee”. I like this, and enjoyed reading his opinion on the future of applications in the latest MSDN magazine . A point recently underscored extremely well by the new Tesco iPhone application ad . A brilliantly executed ad for a simple app feature – well simple if you can get to the device camera stream. One day, one day…

                    Yay! Amazon’s Kindle e-reader app is now available on Windows Phone 7. I installed it yesterday and it looks good, recommend you go get it and never be without your Kindle library.

Available now for trial + purchase from Windows Marketplace (in 'Music & Videos' category) Based on the great technology developed for the Silverlight 4 desktop client - the Windows Phone 7 native app brings the functionality of byRemote to the new Windows Phone 7 devices released by major manufacturers over past month. Featuring multi-touch support and a great looking UI designed specially for the look/feel of Windows Phone 7 Metro UI - this app is optimized for 3G and Wireless users...

I’ve discovered some developers of a certain aged, further defined by being drivers of Volvo cars, have experienced some difficulty getting the ‘tunes’ they would like to ‘get down’ too on Windows Phone 7 and Zune marketplace. So I wanted to offer some help. First step is to ensure your Windows Phone 7 is set to the correct region. That’s ‘English (United Kingdom)’ for here in the UK. This ensures that the marketplace presents prices in the correct currency – that’s GBP. If you get USD $$ then clearly...

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36365/windows-phone-7-first-buyer

Yep – it is CTP at the mo, but will be coming. Ready the details here . At the moment it hooks into the VS 2010 Pro (or better) versions – it doesn’t use the Express bits just yet.

WP7 support guru Reed Robison shared this little gem, I thought I’d pass it on… You can monitor memory pretty easily during debug… You can setup a timer in your app.xaml like this : System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer timer = new System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer(); timer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1000d); timer.Tick += new EventHandler(timer_Tick); timer.Start(); Which can dump constant memory info using a handler like this : void timer_Tick( object sender, EventArgs e) { ...

Gosh we are nearly there! Windows Phone 7 marketplace will soon be open for application submissions. So I thought I should give you a top tip about capturing the screen shots you need for your marketplace application submission. Basically, with Windows 7’s ‘Windows Snipping Tool’ you can select Windows Snip from the ‘New’ combo button and then hover the mouse over the emulator client window. Because the emulator client rendering window is a separate hWnd, so you get just the bit you need for the...

Windows Phone Developer Tools are released! Install from here. You just need a Windows Vista or Windows 7 machine to start building apps and cash in on the next wave of mobile technology! Read about the details and a recent ScottGu/CharlieK event here . Additionally, the Silverlight team have dropped a good bag over on CodePlex – More controls for your Windows Phone 7 SL projects including Date Picker, Time Picker, Wrap Panel and more :-) Get building those apps – be amongst the first to deliver...

Windows Phone 7 has been RTM today (1st Sept 2010). Tally-ho!

I am attending the XBLIG user groups first meeting with my Windows Phone 7 dev lab tonight in Coventry. If you have a Windows Phone 7 app or game then do come along – bring your projects XAP file on a memory stick so we can deployed it to a Windows Phone 7 Prototype so you can see how it runs. All event details are here: XBLIG UG Oh and by the way: using the traditional ‘clapometer’ method we’ll judge the apps presented on the night. The winner will receive an XBox 360 :-) <Note. XBox 360 will...

Well, a rugged flight case! This case contains 12 Windows Phone 7 prototypes and all the stuff needed to make them useful. I set this case up this morning for the dev labs we have running. Current available dev lab slots are: September 1 st ,6 th ,13 th ,16 th ,21 st ,22 nd ,24 th ,28 th ,29 th October 6 th , 7 th Book your slot in the XAP-A-THON today by contacting me via this site or via @paulfo You just need to bring your WP7 application using the Public Preview tools build (or better!) and we...