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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...
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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...
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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...
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With the refresh of the tools we see significant advances in the implementation of the Windows Phone 7 execution model. Developers of WP7 applications should take the time to read about the Execution Model and how it affects your application. This is...
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Slipping out at the end of May was the R3 release of Microsoft RDS. I’ve played with RDS since the early days, but my time has been occupied lately with mobile phones. But the most significant change with RDS is that it is now FREE – not more express...
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I’ve been out and about over the last couple of weeks. This week I was able to get down to the opening days of the Develop conference in Brighton to see some sessions and meet up with lots of folks. Tuesday – Develop Evolve – had a track on mobile game...
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The Windows Phone Developer Tools (WPDT) have been progressing superbly since the last CTP review back in April. Today, we have the latest WPDT builds available from Http://developer.windowsphone.com Here’s a link to the release notes for the beta , but...
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UK technology rock starts Andy Wiggly* and Rob Miles* are delivering an online Microsoft Learning course covering the introduction to developing applications for Windows Phone 7. What is the Windows Phone 7 JumpStart? Windows Phone 7 JumpStart is a virtual...
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"Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce "
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More and more database offerings are becoming available for Windows Phone 7 application developers. A codeplex project for winphone7db provides ‘a Isolated Storage (IsolatedStorage) based database for Windows Phone 7. The database consists of table object...
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Hi all, I’ve been on hols for most of June and then straight back into the thick of it with device based testing for our Windows Phone 7 Showcase partners. We have some great applications and games coming along but all this testing has meant my blog has...
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As reported by Business Insider – we’re focusing all our resources and efforts on Windows Phone 7.
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Join us for the UK Media Center and Windows Home Server User Group event. Saturday 12th June 2010 10am to 4pm at the studio in Birmingham. We love Windows Media Center, the application built into virtually every version of Windows that lets you...
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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...