Monday, July 12, 2010

Announcing Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta

Announcing Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta

Announcing Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 11:12 AM PDT

Today we released the beta tools for Windows Phone 7. This is a strong, solid beta, just about feature complete. Heck, I'd almost consider it more of an RC when it comes to quality. If you've been waiting for a solid build before diving into wp7dev, this...( read more )...(read more)

Announcing Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 11:12 AM PDT

Today we released the beta tools for Windows Phone 7. This is a strong, solid beta, just about feature complete. Heck, I'd almost consider it more of an RC when it comes to quality. If you've been waiting for a solid build before diving into wp7dev, this...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Launchers and Choosers

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 05:00 AM PDT

This post will talk about launchers and choosers mechanism in Windows Phone 7 applications. The Windows Phone application model isolates every application in its own sandbox, both for execution and file storage. Applications are not able to directly access...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Push Notifications (Part 2 of 2)

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 04:55 AM PDT

In previous post I described how to build server part of push notification mechanism for Windows Phone 7. This time I'll show how to handle push notifications on the phone. To demonstrate it I created pretty simple Silverlight application for Windows...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Push Notifications (Part 1 of 2)

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 04:53 AM PDT

Now, after Beta tools released it is a time to start talking about new features and changes since Apirl CTP. This is the first part of two parts blog post about push notification mechanism in Windows Phone 7. The API described in this article according...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta Available for Download

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 04:42 AM PDT

Windows Phone 7 Tools beta available for download. Download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8496c2a-54d9-4b11-9491-a1bfaf32f2e3 The Beta includes: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Windows Phone Emulator...( read more )...(read more)

Thoughts on WebMatrix

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 09:13 PM PDT

The WebMatrix announcement last week triggered a range of reactions on Twitter. It also brought back some personal memories. A decade ago (wow), I started a little tool to simplify using and developing asp.net server controls as a side project, and it grew bigger and was eventually released using the name "WebMatrix". It was a fun project, and my first "serious" side project so to speak. There were a few interesting things we did there, both technical and non-technical. It is great seeing similar things happening in this generation of WebMatrix branded tooling . :-) Vertical and Scenario-Focused Tooling I personally think having a variety of tools is good, especially if they can focus on different verticals, and are optimized...(read more)

Understanding control customization with templates: part #1

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 04:31 PM PDT

Every Silverlight developer - and more extensively each Windows developer - knows what I mean with the term "Control". The term is referred to a reusable component that let the developer to add a known behavior to the user interface. The Silverlight plugin...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight World Cup Mashup Wins Real-Time Push Web App Competition

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 05:21 AM PDT

A month ago Kwwika, a real-time data streaming service provider annonced a competition to build a mash up that uses their World Cup 2010 Twitter streams. I've decided to enter the competition and visualize the stream of tweets in a fun and engaging...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 – Open House

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 07:10 PM PDT

Silverlight 4 coming to the North (of Israel)! Tomorrow afternoon I'll hold an open house about Silverlight 4 for Haifa and surroundings based developers. The open house will take a place in Philips building (building No. 34) at MATAM (Haifa industrial...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 7/12/2010

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:58 AM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #32. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms,...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 7/12/2010

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 12:58 AM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #32. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++, XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7, Windows Forms,...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2010 -- #901

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 08:24 PM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Sl.ayer , András Velvárt , Jag Reehal ( -2- ), Einar Ingebrigtsen , Robby Ingebretsen , Shawn Wildermuth , Pete Brown , Tim Heuer ( -2- ), Rob Eisenberg ( -2- ), Roger Peters , snoutholder , Wolf Schmidt , Kyle McClellan...( read more )...(read more)

Open Letter to (and deal for) Silverlight Bloggers

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 05:51 PM PDT

While doing that 900th Silverlight Cream post last night, I found some dead links in the database. With close to 6,000 links, there is absolutely no way I can test them all and make sure they are (still) correct. Two of the cases I know are because of...( read more )...(read more)

Designing the Windows Phone 7 “Mix Zoomery” app

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 02:26 PM PDT

Summary: this blog post details the design decisions and some technical information behind the Windows Phone 7 Mix Zoomery app. Some of you may have heard of Zoomery, which is the Deep Zoom framework of my company ( Response ). Some of you may have even...( read more )...(read more)
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