This is the fifth in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The previous entry, where I demonstrated how to retrieve and data from a REST based webservice is available here. In that [...]

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The previous entry, where I demonstrated how to store and retrieve view states between application deactivation and activation is available [...]

Have you seen the new (since fall 2011) ways to publish a Windows Phone app to Marketplace? In addition to regular publishing, you can now publish as private beta or targeted. Neither will make the app discoverable in the Marketplace, Beta is time limited and does not include the full certification requirements. MSDN has a [...]

This is the third in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The previous entry, where I created a simple app for collecting feedback on how a presentation went is available here. Application [...]

This is the second in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The previous entry about installing the tools is available here.  Idea for an app The app I’d like to create [...]

This is the first in a series of blog posts describing how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. It is written based on my own experience getting started with Windows Phone 7 development. The purpose is both to help others get started but also to show how simple it really is, to get [...]

Coming from WPF and Silverlight for the desktop into Silverlight for Windows Phone, which is Silverlight 3, can leave you longing for some features – one that I missed was Implicit Styles. But, with the Mango (7.1) release of WP7 we now have Silverlight 4! What are implicit styles? A style that has a target [...]

This is for all of you that just want a simple, up to date, example/how-to/tutorial of how to use Azure Blob Storage. You won’t see any screen shots or a lengthy guide on how to get started from scratch. Instead I will just focus on writing some code examples for general stuff that you might [...]

If your Windows Phone 7 project isn’t starting at all – you’re not even hitting App.xaml.cs, you’ve probably renamed the app project. Fix: Set the startup object on the app project’s properties page In the .csproj file, this corresponds to the SilverlightAppEntry element: <SilverlightAppEntry>PhotoDiary.App</SilverlightAppEntry> I would call it a bug, that you cannot rename a [...]

This blog post will explain how you can (using only the raw .NET Framework) implement push notifications for a Windows 8 Metro Application. Windows Push Notifications (WNS) in Windows 8 is actually quite similar to the model we are used to when working with a Windows Phone 7, so anyone of you that worked with [...]

As a .Net developer using a MacBook Pro as my development machine, I plan on using Windows 7 installed on a Boot Camp partition. That way I can either boot into Windows directly for maximum performance or use VMWare Fusion to get the best of both platforms. After a few initial days of work, I’ve [...]

The 7.5 update for Windows Phone 7, codenamed “Mango” has finally been released to the public and adds a ton of new features both for end users as well as developers. One of these features is called App Connect. App Connect can put your app in selected places within the OS and make your app [...]

Summary double.NaN gives me update issues (ChangeConflictException) in SQL Compact, my fallback was to set the value to zero instead: double.IsNaN(value.Altitude) ? 0 : value.Altitude where ‘Alt’ is the property on my SQLCE entity object. Of course NaN is not the same as zero – but that does not matter to me. Background For a [...]

In the strongly typed world we have to predefine data structures expressed with language elements such as structs and classes. However in a dynamic web world there is a greater flexibility, especially with a dynamic language as JavaScript, native browser support for JSON and jQuery libraries. If your data is relational and fixed in the [...]

You know the process where you need to increment the AssemblyVersion for each build? Personally I’ve solved it both using MSBuild and PowerShell as a part of our daily builds. We have also touched on the subject of incrementing version numbers in earlier posts, like: Håkan Reis – Version handling in TeamCity first part Håkan [...]