Posted 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 [...]
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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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Posted on October 7, 2011 by Chris Koenig
Here are the slides and source code from my talk this morning at Tulsa TechFest on using databases on Windows Phone. I will be writing up a longer technical post to go along with these resources, but since so many people asked for them today, I’m publishing them for your convenience. Slides (via SlideShare) Databases [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on September 21, 2011 by Chris Koenig
My teammate Jeff Blankenburg will be hosting a Windows Phone Development Lab at Tulsa TechFest on Saturday, Oct 8th from 8am-5pm at OSU Tulsa. The Windows Phone lab is a combination Instructor-Led and Self-Directed lab environment that is designed to help you learn about Windows Phone by building applications instead of just listening to sessions. [...]
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Posted on August 19, 2011 by Chris Koenig
When speaking to a crowd of Windows Phone developers the other day, I was asked an interesting question about uploading files. We talk about how, with Mango, you can use the BackgroundAgents to download tons of data to the device, but we never talk about uploading. As I understand it (at least as of this [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on June 29, 2011 by Chris Koenig
Big announcement from the Windows Phone team – they’ve released the Windows Phone Mango OS beta along with the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 2 this morning. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9772716 The best part? If you have a developer unlocked Windows Phone device (that means that you’ve gone through the Marketplace registration and can currently deploy development apps [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2011 by Chris Koenig
http://wp7sketchflow.codeplex.com/ The SketchFlow Template for Windows Phone 7 adds a new SketchFlow template for Expression Blend* users that makes creating a prototype of a Windows Phone app quick and easy. * Please note: To use the SketchFlow Template for Windows Phone 7 you need to be using Blend 4 with SketchFlow enabled (this is the [...]
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Posted on May 24, 2011 by Chris Koenig
My friends over on the Windows Phone team are pleased to announce today’s release of the Windows Phone 7 “Mango” beta tools release! Loads of new and exciting stuff coming in these updated tools – here’s a slice from the announcement: Support for the Windows Phone OS 7.1 – Build mobile apps that take advantage [...]
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