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Shout it from the roof tops Windows Phone 7 Series application development uses Silverlight and XNA!! If you’re a .Net developers today – you just became a Windows Phone developer, able to deliver rich applications with Silverlight and amazing games with...
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So you now really want to learn Silverlight and XNA to be ready to build applications for the coolest new phone on the block? Here is a list of resources to get you going: XNA: Setting up XNA Games Studio on your machine . You can install the current...
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I’m compelled to share with you my simple program for copying files into Windows Azure blob storage. Now you may already have this sussed – it isn’t that cutting edge – but when I searched for examples I found such a range of out dated Azure material...
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One of my favourite features of Windows 7 is the new Sensor and Location API. So far I have been able to utilise commercial sensor boards and my own home brew Basic Stamp facilitated sensors. the one thing I haven’t been able to play with is the Location...
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Unit testing is a software development methodology where the developer writes tests that validate a small portion of code. A unit test is usually composed of three ingredients: (1) data such as strings or integers, (2) a sequence of method calls that...
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As mentioned in previous posts , I have a variety of ‘out of hours’ dev work that keeps me busy and proud. The latest piece of work was the migration of the educational film site Filmsforlearning.org to use Windows Azure blob storage. Filmsforlearning...
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A quick shout out for the Sharepoint 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit. It is a really useful addition to resources for us developers new to or less familiar with SharePoint. Complete with video presentations links to Channel 9 content and local hands...
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I had a great day in Birmingham today attending the UK Xblig XNA day. The day was full of interesting stuff from texturing meshes correctly, to procedural generation of game worlds and AI strategies. Over 70 people attended with various levels of XNA...
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Steven Sinofsky announced at PDC09 day 2 keynote, that all PDC 09 attendees would receive a MSFT designed, Acer built, Windows 7 laptop free of charge. The laptop has a touch screen, full sensor and location functionality, is 64-bit and fully loaded up...
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If you are looking for a concise guide to the features you should consider for your application to shine on Windows 7 look here . A simple list of the 7 things you could do to rejuvenate your applications and ensure they work will and correctly in the...
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This post is one in a series of posts covering the Windows API Code Pack. The code pack provides a managed code framework for using the new native Windows 7 features. After thumbnail previews the next item you’ll be looking to implement for your...
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This post is one in a series of posts covering the Windows API Code Pack . The code pack provides a managed code framework for using the new native Windows 7 features. In this post we’ll examine how to implement thumbnail previews for a tabbed application...
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Heya, how’s it going? If you have Windows applications built using .Net you may be wondering how to add all the cool new Windows 7 taskbar and common dialog features? These are all accessible as native api but we’re in .Net dude – looks like we’re pinvoking...
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As discussed at the recent OTA09 event, I’m working to build out an AR platform on Windows Mobile. This is a ‘skunk works’ project filling my waking hours between work and the family. Currently, I’m exploring the DirectShow capabilities of the Windows...
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You may have noticed I’m into multitouch (MT) technology. I don’t have any ‘proper’ MT kit – I’ve just built my own using the NUIGroup’s core software and an XNA example from CodePlex. With Win7 RC and the VS2010 and .Net 4 beta 1 I now have the opportunity...