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The panorama style application is a powerful and compelling application design. At present there is not a released Silverlight control for knocking up a panorama but this can still be EASILY achieved with very little effort using for example Expression Blend. As a colleague put it ‘stuff a horizontal StackPanel inside a ScrollViewer and call it done’. This will certainly give you a proto-type until our controls are released. Alternatively, there are richer demonstrations of how to build panoramas...
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Scalability Pack for Visual Studio 2010 from Testhouse Testhouse is proud to announce the development of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) scalability pack for Visual Studio 2010. Whilst MOSS is a scalable solution, the implementation of MOSS requires a thorough scalability evaluation. MOSS Scalability Pack is a solution to meet the challenges of performance / load / stress testing Moss Implementations using the Visual Studio 2010. The solution...
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The bing application for Windows Mobile 6.x has gained some enhancements recently – most notably free voice guided turn-by-turn navigation. I had originally installed the Bing application via the Marketplace but was able to upgrade the app using the http://m.bing.com link. However, although I can run the application on my HTC Touch Pro 2, including getting directions, I am unable to get the new turn-by-turn spoken directions because these are only available within the US at his time :-( Read...
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Darkside (aka Simon Jackson) is blogging about building XNA games for Windows Phone 7. The first of several planned blog posts is already up on the XNA UK User group blog Dark Genesis .
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Just a note that I moved teams yesterday. I’m now focused on supporting Windows Phone 7 application development. If you’re building a WP7 application in the UK please do get in touch! I’ll continue to blog about the cool capabilities of WP7. Cheers Paul
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Off topic? Well, not if you have friends and loved ones in this world. A beautifully filmed safety advert that delivers a message more powerfully than words.
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If you haven’t found them already, there is a collection of Windows Phone demo videos up on YouTube . Most of the stuff is cut from the Mix keynote but there are some other bits as well. The two videos on the Office Hub and Email and Calendaring are interesting, particularly from an application design point of view – we’ve all been wondering how the Office team were going to implement Office app menus on the Windows Phone. If you application has lots of menu configurations you should watch these...
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I’ve seen a few queries of how to get text input into an XNA game on Windows Phone 7 – so I thought I’d show you how. It is all very simple. All you need to do is call Guide.BeginShowKeyboardInput. This uses the IAsync pattern to provide asynchronous input to game play. To get the string result from the input ‘dialog’ you call Guide.EndShowKeyboardInput putting the output into a string variable and passing in your IAsync Result object. The code for my simple demo is below: protected...
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With the new tools drop for Windows Phone Developer Tools comes the need to move projects forward. Projects built in the beta do load successfully in the RC but then they fail to deploy: This looks pretty serious but actually is very simple to resolve. In the new drop of tools all projects need to have the WMAppManifest.xml file. This file may have been created for you in the Beta tools but is not set up to be built correctly. To get your beta projects running correctly all you need to do...
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As part of our efforts to help developers jumpstart their development of Windows Phone applications, Yesterday (5/4/2010) we released a refresh of the Windows Phone Training Kit on Channel 9 to meet the changes in the Windows Phone April CTP tools (Visual Studio 2010 for WP and the emulator). Go to the online version on Channel 9 . This release includes Windows Phone Mix10 videos as well as one new lab. Due to the limited nature of this release, which focused on getting the tools to work with VS2010...