WebRequest and its baby sister WebClient behave differently regarding what thread they return on. This is a short post to really clarify what returns where. Summary WebClient will always return on the UI thread […]
In November last year, it was once again time for the 2011 Øredev developer conference. For the 2010 conference, we at Jayway created a schedule app with a social twist – a puzzle game […]
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 […]
The Windows Phone Marketplace was updated with new features in July 2011, one has to do with default language. The previous process to submit an app required you to define the default language when […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
While the first iteration of Windows Phone was based on Silverlight 3 the upcoming release, mango, is based on Silverlight 4. That means a lot of new functionality like implicit styling and and rich […]
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 first version of WP7 design style guide, specified that the panorama should not include an application bar. In Mango, Microsoft have reconsidered, and you can find it in the hubs there. Additionally, if […]
Today my Windows Phone 7 solution started giving me one single build error: Xap packaging failed. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Short story A file had been removed from […]
To show data to the user you have to load data and bind data – but which one is the slow part? Answer: It depends on the nature of your data and the complexity […]
If you have done a few templates with some of the content aligned right and other content aligned left in a grid. You have probably bumped into this. It took quite some time to solve. The problem […]
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 […]
We (Andreas Hammar and I) are just returning from Tech-Days 2011, we delivered a session on developing applications for Windows Phone 7 in Blend and code. While we were preparing for this session something […]