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 [...]
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Posted 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 [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2011 by Chris Koenig
The Windows Phone team announced this morning the Release to Web (RTW) of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and Developer Tools. This release consists of seven additional release languages, final finishing touches to the tooling experience, a handful of bug fixes, and additional upgrade logic to provide a better installation process for users coming from [...]
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. [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on September 20, 2011 by Chris Koenig
A Windows Phone Camp is a free, full-day or two-day event chock-full of everything you need to know to develop a Windows Phone application. Whether you’re a student, a seasoned veteran or just getting started with .NET development this full-day event is for you. Interested in profit? We’ll also lead discussions on how to monetize [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on September 15, 2011 by Chris Koenig
I’m pleased to announce the release of the first two Windows Phone Starter Kit samples from the MSDN Code Gallery! The goal of the Starter Kits project is to provide sample application templates that can be easily configured and customized by Windows Phone developers to help jumpstart their development efforts towards an ultimate goal of [...]
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Posted on September 14, 2011 by Chris Koenig
Found a great video today on YouTube showcasing the mobile awesomeness that is Windows Phone. Enjoy.
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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 [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2011 by Chris Koenig
Just a few minutes ago, Terry Myerson announced on the Windows Phone developer blog that WIndows Phone 7.1 (a.k.a. Mango) has been released to manufacturing! http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2011/07/26/windows-phone-mango-released-to-manufacturing.aspx For those of you who are not Windows Phone developers, you'll still have a little bit to wait to get the bits on your device. Terry says "The Mango [...]
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