Webinar – Cross Platform Mobile App Development
SYNERZIP , Agile Software Product Development Partner is conducting a Webinar on April 19, 2011 at 10:00AM CDT on the topic “Cross Platform Mobile App Development” . The event will be presented by Rohit Ghatol who works for Synerzip as Associate Architect . With the Worldwide adoption of different smartphones [...]
Categories: Events Tags: Android, Blackberry, Development, iOS, Mobile, Symbian, SYNERZIP, webOS, Windows Phone 7
Happy Birthday Visual Studio 2010
Yesterday was Visual Studio 2010′s first birthday . Somasegar in his weblog talks about the first year of Visual Studio 2010 . How well it has been for the users as well as the MSDN subscribers . The Visual Studio got lot of things in its first year which includes [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1, LightSwitch, MSDN, SP1, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio Async CTP, Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, WPF Designer
TouchStudio – Script Your Phone on Your Windows Phone 7
Here’s an interesting project from the Research in Software Engineering group at Microsoft Research called TouchStudio. TouchStudio is an Windows Phone 7 App that allows the users to script their phone. TouchStudio is a new programming environment for Users to program in your Windows Phone . Note that it was [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: App Pex for fun, Marketplace, Research, TouchStudio, Webinar, Windows Phone 7
Code in C# in Your Windows Phone 7 with Pocket C#
Coding in C# not just in your PC but also in your Windows Phone 7 is made easy now with the Pocket C# . How often have the c# developers would have thought of creating some functions on the fly when they dont have access to their computers ?. Something [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: C#, Infinite Pockets, Marketplace, Microsoft, Pocket C#, Windows Phone 7
My Phone Updated with Windows Phone 7 “NoDo”
I just got the NoDo update for my HTC Mozart 7 ( Windows Phone 7 ) . This is the Windows Phone Update , March 2011 and includes the following 1. Copy and paste 2. Faster start and resume times for Windows Phone Apps 3. Improved category search in Marketplace [...]
Categories: How To's, Windows Phone 7 Tags: HTC Mozart, Marketplace, NoDo, Windows Phone 7
Different searches inside Windows Phone 7
The Search Button in Windows Phone 7 helps you find different things easily depending on the form / hub the user is currently viewing . When you are in the start screen or Internet Explorer , pressing the Search Button will Open the Bing Search . Some how this also [...]
Categories: How To's, Windows Phone 7 Tags: Bing, call, howto, India, people hub, search, Windows Phone 7, WP7
Interesting .NET Links – April 6 , 2011
How to send email in Windows Phone 7 using c# ? Productivity Power Tools – Enhanced Scroll Bar – Arian Kulp F# Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4.1 – The Visual Studio Blog Executing SQL queries on SQL CE 4 through Entity Framework – Arun Mahendrakar Belgian eID and .NET [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: C#, Entity Framework 4.1, NET, Windows Phone 7, WPF, XNA
New Spring Cleaning Opportunities for Your Windows Phone 7 Apps
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has unveiled its “Spring Cleaning” opportunities for Windows Phone 7 developers to better merchandise and sell the XNA game in Windows Phone 7 Marketplace . The marketplace team is offering a number of merchandising slots that has the potential to increase the app sales. There [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Marketplace, MSDN, Panoramic, Spring Cleaning, Windows Phone 7
Symbian OS becomes OpenSource
Symbian OS , Nokia’s popular mobile OS is now opensourced . Nokia , in its blog post recently accounced that it is making its primary Mobile OS – Symbian available for its platform development partners . Th sourcecode of SYmbian is made available at https://collab.symbian.nokia.com/home , a site that is [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Nokia, Open and Direct Model, OpenSource, sourcecode, Symbian, Windows Phone 7
f!acedeck – Silverlight based facebook desktop client
f!acedeck is a desktop client for Facebook that is powered by Microsoft’s Silverlight . It was earlier known as Microsoft Client for Facebook . The app is developed by telerik and hence called as telerik f!acedeck client for Facebook . The UI looks clean and is a must if the [...]
Categories: General Tags: client, f!acedeck, interface, Microsoft Client, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7
IDC predicts Windows Phone 7 as #2 Mobile OS by 2015 overtaking iPhone
IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, March 29, 2011 predicts that Windows Phone 7 will overtake Apple’s iPhone to become the Number 2 smartphone in the market . As per the prediction , Google’s Android will still remain dominant in the smartphone business until 2015 . “Android is poised to [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Android, Apple, IDC, iPhone, Microsoft, Social Media, Windows Phone 7
Interesting .NET Links – March 27 , 2011
Why one .NET vendor relies on another for finding critical performance – Redgate Working with TypeDescriptor in C# – Jonathan Wood Armadillo for .NET Developers in Beta Lessons Learned developing a Windows Phone 7 App – Cameron Skinner Handling Updates with the WCF Data Services Toolkit – Jonathan Carter Avoiding [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: NET, Redgate, TypeDescriptor, Visual Studio, WCF, Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac version 1.1 is out
Few days back , Microsoft had released the version 1.1 of its Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac that features some enhancements and Bug fixes like high CPU utilization on certain sync situations . Windows Phone 7 Connector is a Application that can be used to sync the media files [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: Connector, CPU utilization, Mac, Mac App Store, Preview, Windows Phone 7
Meet the Expert – WP7 and the Web
AT&T is conducting its 2nd part of the Windows Phone 7 webinar series on the topic silverlight development on the Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform . The webinar will be held on March 31, 2011 ( pacific time ) for an hour and will be presented by Simon Jackson, indie [...]
Categories: Events Tags: AT&T, event, Microsoft, Webinar, Windows Phone 7, WP7, XNA-UK.NET
Interesting .NET Links – March 23 , 2011
SQL Server: The Magical OVER clause – ConnectSQL My Visual Studio 2010 HTML5 Templates are Updated for jQuery 1.5.1 and Modernizr 1.7 – Rey Bango Using EF 4.1 Code First to support multiple database vendors Visual Studio 2010 Unlimited Load Test Virtual Users – Steve Smith Sql Where In [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: ADO.NET, Analytics, EF 4.1, HTML5, Magical, MVMM, SQL Helper, SQL SERVER, Windows Phone 7
Interesting .NET Links – March 20 , 2011
Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part One – Eric Lippert How to Get Started with HTML 5 – Bruce Kyle How to debug DXCore plug-ins under Visual Studio 2010 SP1 – Alex Skorkin The Difference Between @Helpers and @Functions In WebMatrix – Mike Task Parallel Library 4 of [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: CodePlex, DXCore, HTML 5, NET, Parallel Library, Visual Studio 2010 SP1, WebMatrix, Windows Phone 7
IE9 Demo on Windows Phone 7
Here comes another IE9 Demo on Windows Phone 7 from The Next Web by Joe Marini . Looks like the phone used in the demo is “Asus E600″ , a prototype device . The browser is also slated to come “later this year” as per the video . Source [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Asus E600, IE2, internet explorer9, nextweb, Windows Phone 7, WP7
Geogonix 1.0 for Windows Phone 7
Geogonix 1.0 , a Windows Phone 7 game is coming soon to the Windows Phone 7 devices. In the Geogonix , the players are tasked to correctly place the pieces in to right puzzle image Geogonix 1.0 includes 96 puzzles split out in level packs of 24 each.The player completes [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: Geogonix, KittyCode, uzzles, Windows Phone 7
What Windows Phone 7 App do you want ?
What Mobile Applications would you like to have ? . Hear from different people on what Apps they wish they had on their phone . Interesting App ideas from different people . Nice to see a person asking for a Hindi translator I would like to see GTalk , Skype App [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: GTalk, Microsoft, Skype, Windows Phone 7
Interesting .NET Links – March 15 , 2011
How to publish WP7 applications if you live in the Middle-east & Africa region – Rudi Grobler Defining .NET Components with Namespaces – Patrick Smacchia Creating mutually exclusive code block C# – Mayur WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers – Hardware and Device Services – Kevin Introducing .Net Perf [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: Android, C#, iPhone, NET, SQL Server 2008, Windows Phone 7, WP7
MOMOB’s first Windows Phone 7 meetup in Bangalore
MOMOB brings the first Windows Phone 7 meetup in Bangalore on April 9 , 2011 ( saturday ) from 09:00AM to 01:00PM . The Schedule of the event is as follows : 09:30 to 10:00 Registration and Introduction 10:00 to 11:00 WP7-Architecture-Overview 11:00 to 11:30 How to [...]
Categories: Events, Others, Windows Phone 7 Tags: meetup, Microsoft, mobile monday, MOMOB, Windows Phone 7
Whitepaper – Designing Websites for smartphones
Few days back , Microsoft’s App Hub had released a whitepaper that presents the guidelines for designing websites for Phone Browsers ( Windows Phone 7 , iPhone , BlackBerry etc. ) . This includes the key differences between the desktop browser and the phone browser that the developers should consider [...]
Categories: Others, Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Blackberry, browser, iPhone, Microsoft, smartphones, Windows Phone 7
Duplicate Contacts Problem in Windows Phone 7
Long Zheng in his blog writes about one of the problems he faces in his Windows Phone 7 . The author has got the duplicate entries in his contacts / people hub . The author seems to have found another 2 users of windows phone 7 who faced the similar problems [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: contacts, Microsoft, people hub, Windows Phone 7
Now you can Code in Windows Phone 7 with Pex4fun
Microsoft’s Research Group ( Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) ) has come up with an interesting fun project that allows the users to program in Microsoft’s c# , Visual Basic.NET and F# in the Windows Phone 7 . Pex4fun inclues a code editor with Auto-completion Snippets background compilation Pex4fun was [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: Microsoft, Visual Studio, Windows Phone 7, WP7
New Windows Phone 7 lovable Ads
Here are some good video ads on Windows Phone 7 displayed via Youtube . Some of these videos have been posted by Windows Phone 7 fans . New Windows Phone Ad: We Love WP7 . Dont you ? . There is a perfect match between the music and the video [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Ads, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7, WP7
Interesting .NET Links – March 11, 2011
Windows Phone 7 Native Database Programming via Sqlite Client for Windows Phone – Xianzhong Zhu YACE (Yet Another Comment Extension) for VS2010 – Small, big, bigger and Red! SharpComments – Greg Automapper: Mapping objects Part 3 of 7 (Nested Mapping) – Taswar Bhatt ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0 – James Michael [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0, NET, Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, VS2010, Windows Phone 7
Interesting .NET Links – March 9 , 2011
Support dynamic fields with NHibernate and .NET 4.0 – Oren Eini Visual Studio 2010 enhancements – Somasegar Silverlight versus other applications inside web browser Visual Studio 2010 and HW acceleration on Windows XP… – Jeremy Alles Windows Phone 7 Notification Control with MVVM support – Nigel “A Day of Multicore [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: .NET 4.0, NET, NHibernate, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone 7, Windows XP
HTC Mozart 7 – Technical Specifications
HTC 7 Mozart is the Phone from HTC that uses Microsoft’s latest Mobile OS ( Windows Phone 7 ) that comes with 480 x 800 pixels display and 3.7 inches screen size. One of the best feature of HTC Mozart 7 is its Camera with 8 Megapixel . Here’s a [...]
Categories: Device Hub, Windows Phone 7 Tags: HTC Mozart 7, Snapdragon, Windows Phone 7
Webinar – Meet the Expert – Entry in to Silverlight for WP7
As a part of AT&T Developer program , a Webinar is being organised on March 17, 10:00-11:00 AM Pacific Time .This is the part 1 of 2 part series aimed at introducing the Developers and Designers to the Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 . The webinar is presented by Simon (Darkside) [...]
Categories: Dotnet, Others, Windows Phone 7 Tags: AT&T, seminar, Silverlight, Simon, Webinar, Windows Phone 7, WP7
Interesting .NET Links – March 6 , 2011
Inserting the Class Name in a Code Snippet – Richard Carr Kiosk Mode Library for Windows Mobile Internet Explorer 9 Guide for Developers – MSDN Code Issues – Nested code can be flattened – Alex Skorkin Getting Free and Total Memory Details (Windows / C#) – BlackWasp C#/.NET Little Wonders: [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: C#, Internet Explorer 9, MSDeploy, NET, Visual Studio, windows mobile, Windows Phone 7