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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Windows Phone 7 has been RTM today (1st Sept 2010). Tally-ho!
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Article abridged from the MSDN Windows Phone Development library. Location Overview for Windows Phone 7 The Windows Phone OS 7.0 CTP Refresh Location Service allows you to create location-aware applications for Windows Phone OS 7.0 CTP Refresh. The service...