Clik here to view.
Publishing my first Windows Phone 7 application
Over the last year I have spent a lot of time talking about Windows Phone 7 development, both at (international) conferences, for students and at companies. During these presentations I always used a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Configuration dependent references
When you are developing Windows Phone 7 applications, especially if you are using additional assemblies that you developed yourself, it might not be sufficient to just add a reference to those...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Splash Screens
If you start developing a new Windows Phone 7 application, you usually start by creating a new Visual Studio 2010 project. As part of the initial project, Visual Studio creates a default splash screen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another year, another MIX
Last year in April, the place to be was Las Vegas, NV for MIX 10. During this conference Windows Phone 7 was officially introduced. Immediately after MIX 10 the development tools were available for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A new Windows Phone 7 Device (Emulator)?
Just a few hours ago, the Windows Phone Developer Tools Update was released by Microsoft. This update is specifically for Windows Phone application developers to allow them to build apps that are ready...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where did my ads go?
Since a few weeks, Windows Phone developers can retrieve data on crash counts and stack traces for each published application through the App Hub. Because two of my applications indeed showed a few...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ease of installation
Of course I am a bit biased, even though I am trying to be objective, independent and open minded. Over the last hour or so I have been busy setting up an Android development environment. If you are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Running for the first time
This time I cannot be objective, because today I created an Android application for the very first time and I created a Windows Phone application (definitely not for the first time). So what I am...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EvenTiles from Start to Finish–Part 5
In episode number four of this series about how to develop a Windows Phone application from scratch we created the SettingsPage using a combination of Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2010. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EvenTiles from Start to Finish–Part 7
In the previous episode of this series about how to develop a Windows Phone application from scratch we used the Isolated Storage Explorer Tool to take a look at the contents of the...
View Article