Posted on December 7, 2011 by Chris Koenig
I’m pleased to announce the release of Version 2 for the Windows Phone Starter Kit for Schools! Thanks to some AWESOME help and source code changes submitted by Rudy Hyun, I was able to incorporate a bunch of new stuff into a new version of the Starter Kit. added localization support (fr and en included) [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2011 by Chris Koenig
If you do, we now have a place for you to submit your ideas for others to see and vote on! This morning I established a User Voice site for Windows Phone Starter Kit Ideas – you can find it at the following url: http://wpsk.uservoice.com User Voice is a great feedback system that allows companies [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on November 17, 2011 by Chris Koenig
I’m excited to announce the release of a new Starter Kit for Windows Phone! Officially titled the Windows Phone Starter Kit for Podcasts, this kit makes it really easy to turn your Podcast into a branded Windows Phone application. I helped with a little bit of the code, but the vast majority of the work [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2011 by Chris Koenig
Thanks to everyone that joined us last week for the Windows Phone Camp in Minneapolis. It was great seeing so many Windows Phone developers come together to talk about building cool applications. I was very excited at how many people attending had already spent some time with the tools, and especially how many had already [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2011 by Chris Koenig
The guys in Baton Rouge have scheduled the first meeting of the Windows Phone user group. They don’t yet have their own web site, so I’m going to try to help out by blogging the mailer that just went out. For now, head over to their Google Group site to keep up on all the [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on October 19, 2011 by Chris Koenig
I’m very pleased to announce a new set of Windows Phone Acceleration Labs to be held in Dallas, Columbus, Chicago and Minneapolis. Acceleration Labs are a week-long event where developer get a chance to break away from the office and minimize the distractions of email, the telephone and other work-related fire-drills to spend 3-5 quality [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on October 17, 2011 by Chris Koenig
I just heard off the grapevine that there is a new Windows Phone user group starting up in Baton Rouge! For those of you in the area, I *highly* recommend you attend. I absolutely LOVE the format – a little time to chat and eat, a little time for a presentation, then a good 90 [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2011 by Chris Koenig
One of the top wish-list items for Windows Phone 7 developers was the ability to store data locally on the phone in a relational format. That was one of the top questions I always got asked when talking about Windows Phone – “Where is my local database?!?!” Thanks to a LOT of feedback from all [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2011 by Chris Koenig
My peer over in Japan released a new project on CodePlex this morning called the Windows Phone Icons Maker. From the web site: This project makes multple icons necessary to build and publish Windows Phone Application. When you build and register Windows Phone Application to Maketplace, you have to make 4 size of square Icons [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on October 12, 2011 by Chris Koenig
Thanks to everyone who attended yesterdays Windows Phone Camp in Dallas, TX! As promised, here is a download to the slides and demos from the event. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at chris.koenig@microsoft.com or via our new email alias msnextde@microsoft.com. Direct Link (experimental)
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