The dust from what was presented at Mix11 has long settled and the mango released had been packaged. The tools are with us and we are just waiting for the update to officially reach the phones. So I will do a quick view on background execution in the light of a post I did a [...]

LowProfileImageLoader I’ve recently bumped into the need to display images from various RSS feeds in a Windows Phone 7 app. UI binding and loading of images can easily degrade the performance of any wp7 app, which led me to the excellent LowProfileImageLoader (LPIL) by David Anson. The LPIL attaches a property, UriSource, to an Image [...]

I currently have the luxury of starting out on a green field Azure project. Naturally you start out with the intention that this will be the project where everything is done right (let’s see how that goes) from start. Besides delivering what the customer wants, for me, done right includes well designed code, well tested [...]

One of the major complaints on the Windows Phone 7 platform is that you can’t run third party applications in the background. I had the same complaint on iPhone for a long time but over the time I have started to think about the problem and I’m not sure background operation for third party application [...]

Back in 1994-1995 me and a friend wrote a game called Gravity Force 2 on the Amiga. It got very popular and we still get the occasional email about it. Some people have requested to look at the source code and now it is finally released!