wotudo : Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7Online Conference XNA track

paulfo — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:25:52 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 beyond the clouds

paulfo — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:51:05 GMT

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...(read more)

“Know Thy User, for He Is Not Thee”

paulfo — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:58:55 GMT

David S. Platt’s first, last and only law of user experience design: “Know Thy User, for He Is Not Thee”. I like this, and enjoyed reading his opinion on the future of applications in the latest MSDN magazine . A point recently underscored extremely well...(read more)

Amazon Kindle now available for Windows Phone 7

paulfo — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:31:53 GMT

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....(read more)

Big Screen 'byRemote' - for Windows Phone 7

paulfo — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:10:18 GMT

Available now for trial + purchase from Windows Marketplace (in 'Music & Videos' category) Based on the great technology developed for the Silverlight 4 desktop client - the Windows Phone 7 native app brings the functionality of byRemote to...(read more)

For those aged devs trying to rock with WP7

paulfo — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:13:51 GMT

I’ve discovered some developers of a certain aged, further defined by being drivers of Volvo cars, have experienced some difficulty getting the ‘tunes’ they would like to ‘get down’ too on Windows Phone 7 and Zune marketplace. So I wanted to offer some...(read more)

UK’s first Windows Phone 7 purchase

paulfo — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:40:36 GMT

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36365/windows-phone-7-first-buyer...(read more)

First Windows Phone 7 device sold in New Zealand!

paulfo — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:35:26 GMT

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VB.Net comes to Windows Phone 7

paulfo — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:05:53 GMT

Yep – it is CTP at the mo, but will be coming. Ready the details here . At the moment it hooks into the VS 2010 Pro (or better) versions – it doesn’t use the Express bits just yet....(read more)

WP7 memory monitoring tip

paulfo — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:36:00 GMT

WP7 support guru Reed Robison shared this little gem, I thought I’d pass it on… You can monitor memory pretty easily during debug… You can setup a timer in your app.xaml like this : System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer timer = new System.Windows.Threading...(read more)

Capturing WP7 Emulator screens for Marketplace

paulfo — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:00:46 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Phone Developer Tools - RELEASED

paulfo — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:21:04 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 RTM

paulfo — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:44:11 GMT

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

Midlands XAP-A-THON tonight!

paulfo — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:34:18 GMT

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...(read more)

WP7 dev lab in a box..

paulfo — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:13:00 GMT

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...(read more)