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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...
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New content to help you build XNA games for Windows Phone 7 has been published on the Creators Club website . Lots of great samples so go check it out!! [All items can also be found in the Education Roadmap ] 2D + Touch Game Lab – “Catapult Wars” [ Get it Here ] This lab is a full 2D gesture-based catapult battle game. Launch rocks to crush your opponent, but beware the changing wind! Two learning modules help you build the gameplay from scratch, then polish with animation, sounds, and menu screens...
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Since before Mix10 I have been busy working with brilliant software developers all over the UK building fantastic games and apps for the new Windows Phone 7. Using Silverlight or XNA with Visual Studio 2010 and Blend 4 productivity is amazing and the quality of applications will set new standards of expectation in mobile apps. With these projects powering towards completion I can now extend the invitation to device testing labs to more developers in the UK. If you are a software developer building...
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I am very excited to report that Henry and team won Dare to be Digital over the last weekend and have had their Windows Phone 7 game nominated for a BAFTA :-) Well done guys! If you are a software developer building Windows Phone 7 applications/games in the UK then please get in touch. I am running a series of ‘XAP-athons’ in London where you can bring your code and test it on Windows Phone 7 developer devices. I have 12 dates currently booked in London, and will happily set up additional dates around...
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Stumbled upon Rob’s blog post on encrypting data on Windows Phone 7 . It is a nice walk-through with code sample. Take a look!
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Just saw this story on Mark Prigg’s technology blog on the London Evening Standard site. Apparently Tim Koelekebeck, of MyType, which carried out the survey of 20,000 Americans, said iPad owners were six times more likely to be "wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, overachieving, sophisticated, unkind and non-altruistic 30 to 50-year-olds". "As a mainstream, closed platform device whose major claim to fame is ease of use and sex appeal, the iPad is everything they are not," he...