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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 and the application has a lifecycle which...
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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 review and see how well my application had...
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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 functionality, it feels a little like FlipBoard...
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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 phones there was a notion of “beam contact...
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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 running low on disk space), the phone backup...
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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. I thought I’d take a smattering of controls...
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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 Phone 7 application; and all 3 are responding...
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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 , I thought I’d carry on a little and think...
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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 to get access to the raw events at least means...
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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 and iPad devices for making use of multi...
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Ah, I know it’s a cheesy title but then today’s a big day for Windows Phone 7 and I’m excited about the prospect of getting my hands on a device at long last ( not that I have one at the moment, mind ). Now, which one of these UK phones can I point my Silverlight and Expression Blend at first? I enjoyed...
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The days are ticking down to the Windows Phone 7 launch. The platform and tools bits are out there and it’s just a matter of waiting for devices… For a brief while I managed to get my XAML-centric, Silverlight-centric, client-centric mits on Windows Phone 7 back when the beta came out but then my colleague...
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This post is just a dumping ground for some hyperlinks around Windows Phone 7 development in Silverlight; Windows Phone 7 Sessions at UK TechDays Windows Phone 7 Developer Site Channel 9 Windows Phone 7 Training Kit Silverlight.NET for Windows Phone Charles Petzold’s Windows Phone Book Preview O’Reilly...
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I’ve been holding back on moving to Visual Studio 2010 RTM because I wanted to keep all the bits that I had on my machine working including the Windows Phone 7 preview developer bits handed out at MIX10. But I was finding it more painful to stay there ( because e.g. I had products demanding .NET Framework...
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The sessions from the Windows Phone 7 day at UK TechDays are available online. The day had 3 components to it; Charlie Kindel giving a Technical Overview of Windows Phone 7 Me giving an Overview of Developing for the Windows Phone 7 CTP with Silverlight my slides for that talk are here; Paul Foster talking...