Thursday, July 15, 2010

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 10:38 PM PDT

Earlier today we shipped the beta of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools.  You can download them here . What is included in the Windows Phone Developer Tools The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone – a new free, express edition of Visual Studio 2010 Express Blend for Windows Phone – a new free, edition of Blend focused on Windows Phone 7 development Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone 7 Integrated with the development tools is a phone emulator that enables you to easily develop and test Windows Phone 7 applications on your laptop or desktop machine – without requiring a phone device.  It is hardware accelerated, supports multi-touch events on multi...(read more)

Request for Real-World Web Applications

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 01:50 PM PDT

In preparation for enhancing Visual Studio design-time experience testing, we'd like to collect a catalog of real world applications to use for performance, stress, and ad hoc testing by the Web Platform and Tools team. We're looking for small, medium, and large applications covering a range of architectures, languages, frameworks, and features. Your contributions will help us to ensure stability and performance in the areas of greatest interest to you. These additional testing opportunities will also help us ensure that we will have more real world samples to verify every release of Visual Studio whether it is Beta, RC or RTM. If you are interested in helping us, please provide the following information: Please send an email to WptApps@live...(read more)

Customize a ListBox Template with Silverlight

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 07:00 AM PDT

In this episode of Silverlight TV, Adam Kinney discusses how you can completely customize how a control looks and behaves . Adam explains how all Silverlight controls are lookless and that they can be customized using various templates depending on what...( read more )...(read more)

Understanding control customization with templates: part #2

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 01:36 AM PDT

In the previous part of this article , I've explained the role of templates in Silverlight controls showing how to radically change the appearance of a control without having to change or rewrite its logic. This is an important feature of Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

Balder on Windows Phone 7

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 02:18 AM PDT

After a couple of days of work - actually more like a couple of hours over a couple of days (sneaking away during vacation to feed my computer abstinence), I've managed to port Balder to Windows Phone 7, a couple of quirks needed to be fixed - like this...( read more )...(read more)

Dynamically discovering assemblies and types on Windows Phone 7

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 01:31 AM PDT

The last few days I've been busy porting Balder to other platforms, amongst those; Windows Phone 7 Series. There are some nuances between the different platforms Balder will support, one of these for Windows Phone 7 was that the Load() method does not...( read more )...(read more)

Designing for Multiple Orientations

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 09:02 PM PDT

Learn how you can use Expression Blend to make designing for multiple orientations on the Windows Phone easy....( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2010 -- #903

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 04:36 PM PDT

In this Issue: Jim Jackson ( -2- ), Alex Golesh , Dustin Horne , Sl.ayer , xprblog , Mike James , and David Anson . Shoutouts: John Papa is on Deep Fried Bytes: Silverlight 4 Tools and RIA Services as Heard on Deep Fried Bytes Jaime Rodriguez has some...( read more )...(read more)

A tool to help diagnose problems setting up your PivotViewer app

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 01:50 PM PDT

A number of people have been running into a handful of common configuration problems with their application, server, or the collection content when trying to use PivotViewer, so I've built a tool to help diagnose these problems. You can find it here ...( read more )...(read more)
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