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Windows Phone 8–flickR searching demo from UK Dev Camps

We’re running some introductory style developer camps for Windows Phone 8 in the UK at the moment targeted at folks who have perhaps done some .NET in the past but haven’t built apps for the Phone yet and as part of those I work through some parts of a demo...

Published Fri, Apr 26 2013 12:37 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, UKCommunities, VisualStudio, WindowsPhone

Azure Mobile Services: Pre-Release .NET Client Libraries with WP7.5 and PCL Support

If you’ve been along to one of my talks on Azure Mobile Services you’d have noticed that I’d been fairly careful in talking about Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 support in terms of the .NET class libraries for development on the client side which make working...

Published Wed, Mar 13 2013 11:37 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, VisualStudio, WindowsPhone, Windows8, AzureMobileServices

Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8–Application Lifecycles

Mobile devices like phones, slates need operating systems that try and get the best out of the battery power that the device has while providing a fast, responsive experience for the user. The operating system itself can do a tonne of work in this area but...

Published Wed, Mar 13 2013 4:20 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, VisualStudio, WindowsPhone, Windows8

UK App Rewards for Windows 8 and Windows Phone Developers

To flag the launch of the new Windows 8, Windows Phone App Rewards Programme here in the UK I have been publicly goaded on Twitter by my colleague Martin into giving some stuff away. Please note that this is only applicable to people who are resident in the...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2013 10:10 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities, WindowsPhone, Windows8

I Just Want to Be Close To You– Initial Experiments with Proximity

Back in September, 2011 I went out to the BUILD conference where Microsoft first talked about Windows 8. At that conference (as I’m sure you know) the attendees got a Samsung Slate prototype device which is close to the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro . Being an...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2013 12:45 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WindowsPhone, Windows8

Windows Phone/Windows 8 Event–London, June 16th and 17th

For me, there are a lot of similarities between an application developed for Windows Phone and a Metro style app developed for Windows 8. A Windows Phone 7 application (rather than an XNA game) is built in .NET and XAML against a subset of the .NET framework...

Published Thu, May 24 2012 9:22 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, UKCommunities, VisualStudio, WindowsPhone, Windows8

Windows Phone App–ContactShare Updated for ‘Mango’

I’d managed to get my Windows Phone upgraded to the ‘Mango’ developer beta 2 release and so I thought I’d revisit my amazing ContactShare application that I’d built against the RTM version of Windows Phone. Firstly, I thought it’d be good to do a quick...

Published Thu, Sep 1 2011 7:13 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend, WindowsPhone

Mosaic by Tribune

I was very impressed by the Mosaic application that you can read more about on the Windows Azure blog or by hopping over to the Mosaic site; I’ve only tried the Windows version so far but I’m keen to get the Windows Phone 7 version too and try that out – in...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2011 9:50 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight, Windows7, WindowsPhone

Windows Phone 7 App–ContactShare

I wanted to have a bit of fun with Windows Phone 7 and so I thought I’d build a little application as a background task. One thing that I miss from previous phones is that scenario where you meet someone and want to quickly swap contact details. With previous...

Published Tue, Jun 7 2011 11:52 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend, WindowsPhone, Expression

Windows Phone 7–Backup Location/Disk Space

I just updated my Windows Phone 7 and I noticed that I lost quite a lot of disk space in the process as the phone backup hit my local machine. Just in case you're like me and hadn't quite planned for backing up your phone onto your hard drive (I'm...

Published Thu, Apr 7 2011 4:58 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Hardware, WindowsPhone

Touched ( Part 5 )–Touch-Ready Controls

Following on from that previous post I thought it might be interesting to look across the controls that ship with the various frameworks (i.e. WPF, Silverlight and Silverlight for WP7) and see how they respond to being dropped into a touch-based interface....

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 1:24 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Blend, WindowsPhone

Touched–(Part 4)-Simple Example

Following on from that previous post I promised to make a simple example where an application would display 2 pictures and a single-finger drag would flip from one picture to another. Here’s my example as a WPF application, a Silverlight application and a Windows...

Published Thu, Nov 4 2010 7:14 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows7, WindowsPhone

Touched ( Part 3 )–Manipulation and Gesture Support

quick note – this post has a lot of sketchy code in it that I’ve not really tidied up – apply a pinch of salt and look for better examples elsewhere as I’m just trying to skate across the surface of the different API options. Following up on that previous post...

Published Tue, Nov 2 2010 3:16 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows7, VisualStudio, WindowsPhone

Touched ( Part 2 )–Raw Touch Events

Following on from that previous post I wanted to take a look at processing raw touch events. In truth, I suspect that most application developers don’t want raw touch events and would rather work at the level of gestures and/or manipulations but being able...

Published Sat, Oct 16 2010 12:16 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows7, WindowsPhone

Touched ( Part 1 )–Getting Touch for Free

Multi-touch interfaces are becoming more and more prevalent. This week saw the launch of the Windows Phone 7 where the interface is mostly (or almost entirely in the case of phones without keyboards) touch driven and it’s hardly alone amongst the Android, iPhone...

Published Fri, Oct 15 2010 9:06 AM by mtaulty