Posted on April 26, 2011 by Chris Koenig
Do you have the next million dollar idea that you just can’t find the time to finish? Do you already have an app for Android and iPhone that you want to expand into new markets? Then I would like to encourage you to participate with a select group of developers for a Windows® Phone [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2011 by Chris Koenig
Something that hasn’t gotten as much attention as I expected it would was a slide shown by Todd Brix from the Windows Phone Marketplace team about upcoming additions (read: Improvements) to the Windows Phone Marketplace distribution capabilities during the Mango timeframe. Here’s a screen cap of the slide from his talk at MIX11: What Todd [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on March 29, 2011 by Chris Koenig
Do you want to win a brand new Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7? Do you like building applications? If so, this contest is for you! Between now and June 30, 2011, when you develop and submit a Windows Phone 7 app into the Windows Phone Marketplace, you can be eligible for a chance to [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on March 24, 2011 by Chris Koenig
This toolkit is designed to make it easier for phone developers to leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure. The toolkit includes Visual Studio project templates for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure, class libraries optimized for use on the phone, sample applications, and documentation. Get the bits on CodePlex here: http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/ The toolkit contains [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on March 18, 2011 by Chris Koenig
I just got an email from the Windows Phone 7 mailing list and saw that Sprint has announced the release of their WP7 device, the HTC Arrive on March 20th! Looks like an awesome device! Now all you folks on Sprint finally have access to the greatest Windows Phone operating system of all time! If [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on February 13, 2011 by Chris Koenig
I just posted my slides from Thursday night's talk on WP7 Performance over at my Slideshare account. Here there are for your convenience. You can also download this deck, along with the demos from my Skydrive account:
Continue ReadingPosted on February 7, 2011 by Chris Koenig
The Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update includes: Windows Phone Emulator Update – Exposes copy/paste functionality in the Windows Phone 7 emulator. For more information, see How to: Test Copy and Paste in Windows Phone Emulator. End users can use the copy and paste functionality only after receiving the corresponding update to the Windows [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2011 by Chris Koenig
UPDATE (2011-01-27) – I knew I'd miss something! Added UTD Presentation on 2/9 UPDATE (2011-02-08) – Added Connected Systems UG Meeting on 3/9 I’ve been asked for this a couple times, and finally have a few minutes to sit down and type it out. Here’s a list of the things I’ve got coming up and the [...]
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Posted on December 9, 2010 by Chris Koenig
A friend contacted me yesterday asking me how to enable some sort of side-to-side scrolling of images, similar to the way to that the Pictures Viewer works. He looked at taking a ListBox, turning it on its side and just scrolling sideways, but it didn’t give him the “feel” that he wanted. I thought it [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on November 29, 2010 by Chris Koenig
I’m pleased to share with all of you an exciting announcement around a new (hopefully) annual technical event here in Dallas. On March 4 & 5, 2011, Dallas will host the first ever Dallas Day of Dot Net! DDDN is a 2-day conference featuring the top local technical talent as well as a special guest [...]
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