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?… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

Microsoft are running a series of development workshops across New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch and Hamilton) over September and October. Full details are on Nigel’s blog along with sign-up links. Places are limited so register today! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nigel/archive/2010/09/09/windows-phone-7-introductory-development-workshop.aspx Continue reading

More proof (if really needed) that Microsoft is abandoning English and making up its own language:- "We have noted your concern and we have given your feedback to our upstream." From Microsoft Subscriptions Support (TechNet/MSDN) Continue reading

The latest CTP release of Windows Phone 7 introduces a new managed library which exposes events you can monitor to catch changes in state in your application. The assembly is Microsoft.Phone.Execution.dll. This contains a WindowsPhoneEvents class which exposes two static… Continue reading

Jamie Rodriguez has a post on the new capabilities security model in Windows Phone 7 which is introduced in the latest CTP release:- http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/archive/2010/04/30/windows-phone-capabilities-security-model.aspx It is interesting to read how this will be handled at runtime, here are the key… Continue reading