wotudo : wp7s

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)

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)

Windows Phone 7 game nominated for BAFTA Award

paulfo — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:36:09 GMT

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...(read more)

Best Practices for WP7 Execution Model - Silverlight

paulfo — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:42:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Building panoramas on Windows Phone 7

paulfo — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:39:57 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Phone demo videos on YouTube

paulfo — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:42:29 GMT

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...(read more)

Shawn Hargreaves Mix graphics demo available

paulfo — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:04:51 GMT

Shawn gave a superb demonstration of the five effects available in XNA for Windows Phone. He has now published the demo source up on the XNA Creators Club website. GO GET IT HERE ....(read more)

Windows Phone XNA effect demos

paulfo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:18:27 GMT

I’ve compiled a short video of Shawn Hargreaves’ XNA effect demos from his session at Mix (originally shown at GDC). Enjoy!...(read more)

Getting started with Windows Phone 7 Series app dev

paulfo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:20:51 GMT

You seen the demos, and now you have an idea for the money making application or game on Windows Phone 7 Series. Seeing as this is a new marketplace, if you can use your existing mobile application development experience to build that compelling app and...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 Series: Location Service

paulfo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:39:31 GMT

One of the great opportunities in mobile is the delivery of context aware applications – applications that can determine stuff automatically when they are being used in order to give the end user a better, and maybe more accurate, experience. Location...(read more)

XNA: Windows Phone 7 Series GPU performance rocks!

paulfo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:17:38 GMT

For me the best session at Mix 10 was Shawn Hargreave’s CL22 – High Performance 3D Games on Windows Phone 7 Series. Shawn is an XNA demi-god and to see what he can make the new Windows Phone do with XNA is inspiring. The session is packed with technical...(read more)

XNA: Gaming across many platforms and the cloud

paulfo — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:10:50 GMT

I’ve been working with UK XNA MVP Charles Humphrey on project ZuneRay. ZuneRay is a raycasting engine built by Charles’ for the Zune HD using XNA 3.1. With Windows Phone 7 Series in the pipeline we used the Zune HD as a target test platform with the intention...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 Series top developer resources

paulfo — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:45:02 GMT

There are now several resources available to the budding Windows Phone 7 Series developer. There are two book previews available: The videos from Mix are also now available – for detailed insight into XNA game development you must watch...(read more)

MIX: Windows Phone Developer Tools Preview

paulfo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:58:50 GMT

Announced: the Windows Phone Developer Tools Preview is available! Yahooooo! The preview includes: The Visual Studio 2010 IDE A project template system for starting Silverlight applications for Windows Phone Visual Designers for Silverlight for Windows...(read more)

MIX: Windows Phone task integration

paulfo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:01:35 GMT

Integrating Windows Phone built-in application functionality is easy to achieve using the functions in the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks framework. Most of these features are not enabled in the preview emulator, but its worth looking at the library to understand...(read more)