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  • Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1

    At MWC today Nokia announced the Lumia 610 which is a lower spec device designed for emerging markets. This is running an updated Windows Phone OS which supports devices with just 256MB of RAM. To enable developers to create apps… Continue reading

  • Tasks v1.19

    The latest update to Tasks is now available in the Marketplace. This release continues the improvements to the sync experience by providing more resilience in situations where the network drops out during a sync. It also improves the reminders feature in… Continue reading

  • Follow Up from Windows Phone Camp Bristol

    A few of you who attended the Windows Phone Camp in Bristol asked about the slides and code from the Storing Data and Cloud/Networking session. I’ve uploaded the latest versions of these slides and the additional Sockets code project to… Continue reading

  • Review: Making Embedded Systems (Elecia White)

    This title takes a traditional software programmer into the world of embedded system. It covers the process of designing and implementing an embedded system from a sketch through to optimising performance and power consumption. As an interesting addition, at the… Continue reading

  • Windows Phone Update due shortly

    Microsoft have published details of a new update (7.10.8107.79) which adds a number of fixes to the Mango release. It fixes the issue where the on screen keyboard will randomly hide itself which I’ve been finding frustrating recently and also… Continue reading

  • Developer Unlock Expiry

    When you’ve developer unlocked your Windows Phone you can merrily deploy and debug on it and everything is great. If you’ve upgraded to Mango you had to run the Unlock tool again but this is fairly painless. What is not… Continue reading

  • Submitting Apps to Marketplace with Background Tasks

    I’ve been working on an update to the Tasks application which adds in background synchronisation using the new background task support in Windows Phone 7.5. As with any app when you submit your XAP static analysis is performed on it to… Continue reading

  • Showing Mango Features on Marketplace

    The Windows Phone team have posted to their blog about application updates with a couple of useful points:- From October you will again be able to publish updates to your 7.0 apps independently from 7.5 (previously once you had published… Continue reading

  • Working with Marketplace Exported Reports

    When Microsoft refreshed the Windows Phone developer portal in advance of the Mango refresh they added various improvements to reporting, an important one being export to file (XLSX). When you open the exported payout detail reports in Excel and enable… Continue reading

  • Need a Windows Phone developer handset?

    Are you a Windows Phone 7 developer in New Zealand? Are you in need of a real Windows Phone device to test and debug your apps on? If so I have a spare Samsung developer handset which is going free… Continue reading