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Windows Phone 7 has been RTM today (1st Sept 2010). Tally-ho!

I am attending the XBLIG user groups first meeting with my Windows Phone 7 dev lab tonight in Coventry. If you have a Windows Phone 7 app or game then do come along – bring your projects XAP file on a memory stick so we can deployed it to a Windows Phone 7 Prototype so you can see how it runs. All event details are here: XBLIG UG Oh and by the way: using the traditional ‘clapometer’ method we’ll judge the apps presented on the night. The winner will receive an XBox 360 :-) <Note. XBox 360 will...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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...

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 critically important to ensure your users have the best experience. A summary of the Execution Model Best Practices. Yochay’s eloquent blog post explaining the Execution Model. MSDN overview document for the Execution Model. These documents currently...

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, standard or academic editions. RDS is now built for VS2010 :-) which means I just need VS2010 for Windows, Web, Cloud, Xbox Games, Windows Phone7 and ROBOTS. Completely awesome :-) A1DW who has been peacefully sitting under the stairs for the last 6...

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 development. Mainly iPhone, with one Android session, it was interesting to see the limitations and some of the great games built on these platforms. I was able to do a bit of gorilla marketing with my device and do the classic ‘beacon’ announcement...

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 I wanted to talk about a few top level items: Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone – Blend is now integrated completely into the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta. Developer Registration Utility – Now you can unlock you Windows Phone 7 device...

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 live class for developers interested in developing applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform using Silverlight and XNA. The course is organized into four virtual instructor-led sessions that are of 3-hour duration. They will be presented by...

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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, each one supporting any number of columns. Use this as persistance engine for WIndows Phone 7 Silverlight (and XNA) applications.’ and adds to a growing number of Windows Phone 7 projects on CodePlex.com. McObject announced support for its Perst...