Having worked in Geographical Information Systems over 20 years, I can tell you rightfully the new Windows Phone 8 mapping and location abilities are...
0 replies - 1206 views - 03/18/13 by Joost Van Schaik in Articles
Introduction I recently delivered a webinar for SilverlightShow titled, “An Overview of the New Windows Phone 8 SDK.” The recording of the webinar is...
0 replies - 1576 views - 12/24/12 by Michael Crump in Articles
Many application usage scenarios on Windows Phone are not only relying on data that is being fetched through third-party services or APIs, but also on storing...
0 replies - 9106 views - 12/20/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
During the Microsoft BUILD conference in Redmond, WA, this past week Microsoft announced that the Windows Phone 8 SDK became public. This means that...
0 replies - 2034 views - 11/04/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
As I am still looking to remotely provision the Dell Venue Pro device
that I am experimenting with, it suddenly hit me that it in fact
connects to Visual...
0 replies - 2702 views - 06/04/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
RAM Size
It appears that the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 does not come with two
separate OS images for 256MB and 512MB. Instead, it is using the
standard...
0 replies - 3937 views - 05/27/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Today’s highlight from Hacker News is What Time Is It?
– a web page that shows how some construction workers are putting
together a wooden...
0 replies - 2093 views - 05/27/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
I was
thinking that it is a shame that I cannot attach files to an email via EmailComposeTask – and indeed, I am not the only one thinking about this: ...
0 replies - 3330 views - 05/27/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Game development is an interesting area mainly because you get to learn a lot of stuff as you go. There is no universal recipe for every game and every...
0 replies - 2747 views - 05/12/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
There aren't that many applications in the Windows Phone Marketplace that actually work with texting on a level beyond the SmsComposeTask class. There are,...
0 replies - 2890 views - 04/30/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Over this weekend I had the opportunity to work on an application that uses the Microsoft Live SDK to upload data files to SkyDrive. I must admit that I really...
0 replies - 6675 views - 04/22/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
As I was working on my next Windows Phone project, I had to once again integrate the Dropbox API with my application. I already had a wrapper done (remember...
0 replies - 6006 views - 04/14/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Zune has a pretty cool sub-service called Zune Card - it displays a user's most played tracks, as well as the total number of plays. If you've ever used Xbox...
0 replies - 2645 views - 04/11/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
In case you missed them, the previous articles on how to build MangoTree, a Windows Phone Twitter client, are available here: OAuth client & basic...
0 replies - 4322 views - 04/08/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
As Rowi, a great Twitter client for Windows Phone, pushed its next update, it introduced a very interesting type of menu - "show-on-tap". It is...
0 replies - 3446 views - 04/08/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
