In The Hand LtdI have had a fair bit experience with the test devices which were available prior to the release of Windows Phone 7 but this is my first experience with a commercial device. Therefore it seems inappropriate for me to try and compare this device with other hardware or even to look at the WP7 OS […]
We’ve received a lot of great feedback for the Tasks application so I thought it would be useful to provide some frequently asked questions (and answers) here:- How secure are my credentials, do you send them to your own server? Your credentials are only used to communicate with your Exchange Server directly using the Exchange […]
Below are some hints for setting up the Tasks application to synchronise with your Exchange Server:- Exchange Server Settings We have no way to use your settings already entered when setting up your Exchange Email account so it is necessary to enter these again. In order to setup synchronisation you’ll need your Username, Password, […]
Today has been spent catching up on my To-Do list, though it still doesn’t look that way! I have however been able to make some progress with 32feet. Alongside the class library documentation for the project there is a User Guide which provides an overview of the functionality and some example code snippets. Alan McFarlane […]
While Windows Phone uses the same NavigationService and page-based model as “regular” Silverlight, one area the documentation doesn’t make clear is that although the APIs seem to support both Back and Forward navigation in reality there is no forward navigation on Windows Phone. This means when you navigate to a new page and then return […]
The Windows Phone 7 Emulator takes a fairly bare-bones approach having only Internet Explorer available by default. Because it’s easier when presenting to use the Emulator than to try and capture a device screen with a camera it would be nice to show off features of the platform as part of your demonstration – not […]
Microsoft have released an October update for the Windows Phone Development Tools. This release fixes gesture behaviour in the map control and adds two developer utilities – one to analyse your application to detect which capabilities it requires, the other to allow you to connect using your desktop without Zune running allowing you to use […]
Christian Helle has posted a registry setting on his blog which can be used to toggle the StoneStreet One Bluetooth stack off on Motorola (nee Symbol) rugged handheld devices. Their newer devices (ES400 and MC65) use the Microsoft stack by default. http://christian-helle.blogspot.com/2010/10/motorola-dual-bluetooth-stack-support.html Once you’ve made this change and soft-reset the device you can use the […]
In the previous Beta release you had to compare the RGB values of the background brush to determine if the theme was Light (White background) or Dark (Black background). Now there is an additional resource you can query:- Visibility v = (Visibility)Resources["PhoneLightThemeVisibility"]; if (v == System.Windows.Visibility.Visible) { ImageBrush ib = new ImageBrush(); Uri u […]
The Windows Phone 7 emulator is very limited compared with the real phones so there are no built in applications other than Internet Explorer. This can make it difficult to test some of the APIs which interact with data on the device. Luckily there is a way to load contact data onto the emulator which […]
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