Me and some other Microsoft Student Insiders started working on a
game for Windows Phone 7 (XNA-powered, of course). After some
brainstorming we decided to...
0 replies - 3008 views - 11/14/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
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of the first applications I did with Windows Phone 7, utilized the
pivot control. I imagine that type of control to be very popular in
future...
1 replies - 4452 views - 07/25/11 by Corey Miller in News
Live Tiles are one of the key components that are specific to the Windows Phone platform and allow pushing informational messages much faster to the...
0 replies - 8685 views - 07/25/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
ImagineCup Worldwide Finals is a huge event where everything is going on so fast, that it is ultimately necessary to carry a schedule around just to make sure...
0 replies - 3048 views - 07/09/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Today, Microsoft officially unveiled its next release of Windows Phone. Although a lot of the features that were shown were expected, it was a pleasant...
0 replies - 3233 views - 05/24/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
I blogged a while ago about a hidden endpoint in Pandora that allows developers to query the Pandora service for artist information. The service itself is...
1 replies - 7558 views - 05/17/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
I was working on a download manager for Windows Phone, and although I expected this to be a fairly simple and straightforward project given the existing tools,...
0 replies - 10343 views - 05/15/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Microsoft has launched its new WP7 App Challenge for Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2011 .
The Developers can participate by developing an Application ,...
0 replies - 2551 views - 04/17/11 by Senthil Kumar in News
The Windows Phone 7 SDK (and the platform itself) was lacking some
important features from the very beginning. It started with a pretty
basic set of...
0 replies - 4444 views - 04/14/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
One of the sessions I attended today at MIX11 was one on Flickr API on Windows Phone 7. Even though not a lot was said about the implementation itself, I got...
0 replies - 4051 views - 04/13/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
It's now time to work on the actual upload mechanism for the application. It still relies on OAuth, but as it was shown in the previous article, the foundation...
1 replies - 7321 views - 04/06/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Time to get further with OAuth, and now it gets a little bit more
complicated because we'll have to deal with request signing (which might
be a headache...
0 replies - 5774 views - 04/05/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
MVVM Light offers a class specific to every ViewModel instance that is used in the context of an application - Messenger. One might ask - what exactly is it...
3 replies - 18711 views - 03/30/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Microsoft officially released the NoDo ("No Donuts") update for Windows Phone 7. This is the first major update to the platform that introduces many...
0 replies - 3170 views - 03/24/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
We all know that Windows Phone 7 doesn't carry support ringtone modifications (not by default). This can be a bit frustrating for people who don't like any of...
2 replies - 26689 views - 03/17/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
