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• Windows Phone Update due shortly

  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... Posted Jan 06 2012, 08:32 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• Developer Unlock Expiry

  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... Posted Dec 22 2011, 06:35 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• Submitting Apps to Marketplace with Background Tasks

  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... Posted Dec 08 2011, 06:38 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• Showing Mango Features on Marketplace

  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... Posted Sep 21 2011, 04:30 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• Showing Mango Features on Marketplace

  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... Posted Sep 20 2011, 04:30 PM by Peter Foot Filed under: Windows Phone

• Working with Marketplace Exported Reports

  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... Posted Sep 12 2011, 09:14 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• Need a Windows Phone developer handset?

  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... Posted Jun 28 2011, 06:32 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• Quick Look at the Mango Developer Tools

  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... Posted May 24 2011, 07:38 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• Bug in Marketplace Over-The-Air Update

  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... Posted May 22 2011, 01:08 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• APPA Mundi Tasks 1.9

  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... Posted Apr 21 2011, 12:20 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding with Mobile In The Hand 7.0

  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... Posted Apr 15 2011, 03:00 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Mobile, Compact Framework, Windows Phone

• Tasks: Coming in v1.7

  This week we released the second in a couple of updates to the Tasks application. We’ve added a large number of features and improved compatibility with a wider range of servers based on user feedback. Let’s look first at compatibility – we now support... Posted Apr 06 2011, 06:59 PM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Localisation and Windows Phone Features

  Anyone who has built an application for Windows Phone 7 in multiple languages will know there are three parts to the process. Within your application you can use managed RESX resource files to provide localised strings. For your application title or the... Posted Apr 05 2011, 07:45 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: More Tilt Effect

  The Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone (Latest version is February 2011) contains a Tilt Effect implementation. To add it to your controls requires the addition of an XML namespace definition and one dependency propery set in your page XAML. <phone... Posted Mar 29 2011, 09:14 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone

• When Phone Tasks Might Not Work

  The range of Tasks available in the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace call into various system features from your application. In some circumstances these may not work as expected. The most obvious example is the Emulator where not all of the system is... Posted Mar 27 2011, 09:50 AM by PeterFoot with Filed under: Windows Phone