In The Hand LtdI received my Band today and have just started setting it up, loading in my Starbucks card and tweaking settings. One thing which is interesting is that the phone doesn’t use GATT Bluetooth LE to expose functionality unlike some other wearables. Instead it has three RfComm services named:- Cargo Service Cargo Service 2 Push Service […]
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 Windows 7.5 and improves the display of reminders for tasks with very long titles. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/55fcf880-6b03-e011-9264-00237de2db9e […]
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 obvious is that the developer unlock has a 12 month expiry from when you first […]
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 a Mango update your 7.0 app would be locked). It does mean potentially being in […]
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 editing you’ll see a number of warnings against a couple of columns. This is because […]
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 to a good home. Shipping is $5 to anywhere in New Zealand. I could ship […]
The latest version of our Tasks app has now hit Marketplace. This release builds on the improvements from my last blog post:- We now have fixed an issue some users were encountering with synchronising Hotmail tasks in v1.8 We now support a wider range of Exchange Server 2003 mailboxes including those with non-standard security policies […]
This week we released the second in a couple of updates to the Tasks application. We’ve added a large number of features and improved compatibility with a wider range of servers based on user feedback. Let’s look first at compatibility – we now support Exchange 2003 and other ActiveSync 2.5 compatible servers. This includes your […]
The range of Tasks available in the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace call into various system features from your application. In some circumstances these may not work as expected. The most obvious example is the Emulator where not all of the system is implemented. The behaviour will differ depending on the specific task. For example EmailComposeTask on the […]
The latest release of the Silverlight Toolkit contains a number of fixes and new features including:- TiltEffect (previously available separately) PerformanceProgressBar (previously available separately) Visual Basic Samples Major improvements to LongListSelector and Transitions Go grab the latest release here:- http://silverlight.codeplex.com/releases/view/60291
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