This title takes a traditional software programmer into the world of embedded system. It covers the process of designing and implementing an embedded system from a sketch through to optimising performance and power consumption. As an interesting addition...

Microsoft have published details of a new update (7.10.8107.79) which adds a number of fixes to the Mango release. It fixes the issue where the on screen keyboard will randomly hide itself which I've been finding frustrating recently and also a fix...

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...

I've been working on an update to the Tasks application which adds in background synchronisation using the new background task support in Windows Phone 7.5. As with any app when you submit your XAP static analysis is performed on it to check, for...

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...

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...

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 recently had the fun experience of working in the judging team for the Imagine Cup XBox/Windows Game Design competition. This was one of the many tracks of the Imagine Cup competition concentrating on games for Windows and XNA written by teams of students...

The Mango developer tools require Visual Studio 2010 and Service Pack 1. The package includes a Mango emulator image and new project templates. The tools allow you to work with (and create new) projects for Windows Phone 7.0 as well as 7.1 (which is how...

Recently we had an issue where our application would crash on launch after an update was pushed to the device through Marketplace. Fresh installations were not affected and we could not replicate the issue on a development machine. By analysing the contents...

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...

.NET Compact Framework The Compact Framework provides the capability to start a separate process from your code, and stop it but it doesn’t give you more detailed information about what is running and what components are in use. Windows CE includes the...

This is the first in a series of posts about Mobile In The Hand 7.0 which brings a collection of reusable components to the .NET Compact Framework. This latest version is updated to support all versions of Windows Mobile including Windows Embedded Handheld...