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Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone in 90 seconds!

May 13, 10 //
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Everybody can spare 90 seconds, so why not put that time to good use and learn something new?

Take your ideas from concept, to completed apps quickly and easily with Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone. Built in templates for Windows Phone, controls that automatically take on the look and feel of the phone and the ability to test your application on the Windows Phone emulator or directly on a Windows Phone device are all features that help keep you focused, thinking creatively and building compelling apps for your users.

More 90 second videos HERE

Behind Windows Phone Tools for Developers – The Emulator

May 12, 10 //
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While Silverlight and XNA Framework enable developers to create new and innovative applications and games for the Windows Phone (WP), these are just sets of libraries. In order to complete the development experience, a set of powerful tools is required. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone is a free express version of Visual Studio tailored to the Windows Phone. It includes Visual Studio Express to write great software, but more importantly for our purposes, it also includes the Windows Phone Emulator, which allows you to test and debug your application without even having a WP device. This enables you to create your software with high predictability and ease.

 Join Amit Chopra, Raghuram Lanka, and Mukund Bhoovaraghavan from the Windows Phone and Tools team, and Yochay Kiriaty, Senior Technical Evangelist, for a tour of the internals of the Windows Phone Emulator.

Windows Phone Push Notification

May 5, 10 //
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Windows Phone Push Notification Service provides developers with the infrastructure to support sending notification messages to a Windows Phone device even when their applications are not running, in a better conservative manner. Since Windows Phone doesn’t allow 3rd party applications to run in the background, your code can’t listen to or poll the Web for updates. Windows Push Notification Service was created to overcome this communication issue by enabling developers to send Push Notification Messages to Windows Phone devices even when their applications are not running.

Join Jorge Raastroem, a Program Manager in the Windows Phone Application Platform team, and Yochay Kiriaty, a Senior Technical Evangelist, as they describe what push notifications are and how they work with Windows Phone Push Notification Service.

You can also read  abot Understanding Microsoft Push Notifications for Windows Phones and Understanding How Microsoft Push Notification Works – Part 2

Windows Phone Application Life Cycle

May 4, 10 //
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Windows Phone 7 provides developers with two main frameworks in which to work:  Silverlight and XNA Framework. Regardless of the framework you chose, you will end up with a Windows Phone application that must be deployed to the Windows Phone market place and from there installed on a Windows Phone device, and provisioned and managed by the user.

Join Tudor Toma – a Principal Program Manager in the Windows Phone team, Jaime Rodriguez – a Principal Technical evangelist, and Yochay Kiriaty – a Senior Technical Evangelist, as they provide an overview of the Windows Phone Application life cycle, explaining the internal architecture of Windows Phone and how application get installed and executed on.

TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools Refresh, Messenger Wave 4 Preview

April 30, 10 //
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This week on Channel 9, Brian returns from his European tour and there is much rejoicing with Dan as they discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Picks of the week:
- Brian’s pick: TFS 2010 Power Tools now available, via Greg Duncan
- Dan’s pick: Auto-Update your wallpaper with Flickr images using your location with Arian Kulp’s Coding4Fun app – Geo-location and Flickr

Microsoft announces Kin! The next Windows Phone (Formerly code named Pink): Full Demo

April 12, 10 //
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It’s been all rumors and speculation up until now. What some bloggers out there have been calling “Pink” or “Tribe” has just been officially announced as Kin, the next Windows Phone. Take a look at this full hands on demo followed by some Q&A.
Kin aims to be a new social experience from Microsoft that combines the phone, online services and the PC. It is designed for a socially connected audience with unique features such as The Spot, The Loop and The Studio. Check it out!

Pete at MIX10: Richard Costall – Silverlight Manic Miner for Windows Phone 7

April 5, 10 //
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One of the more interesting uses for Silverlight is casual gaming. When you add Windows Phone 7 Series into the mix, it becomes even more exciting.

At MIX10, I met up with Microsoft MVP and all around cool guy, Richard Costall. He showed me how, with no real changes, he was able to get his Silverlight game Manic Miner to run on the Windows Phone 7 Series. In fact, he did the port that day, using bits he just received at the conference. He plans to take this further and optimize the experience for the Windows Phone. I can’t wait to see the results.

Pete at MIX10: Robert Kihm on Aptify RAD

March 29, 10 //
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While at MIX10, I met up with Robert Kihm, Director of Product Architecture at Aptify. We talked about how Aptify enables you to create metadata for an application as well as surface the UI, including bindings and validation rules across multiple user interfaces (Silverlight and Windows Forms shown), without making any changes.

Building on all the cool things in .NET, Aptify uses Silverlight, WCF RIA Services, SQL Server, Regular WCF SOAP Services, and tons more to help you build cross-technology, cross-platform business applications using Microsoft tools and technologies.

The Aptify Web Site offers more details on the Aptify product.

Visit Pete Brown’s Blog at 10rem.net for more information on Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone, C++, and more.

TWC9: MIX Wrapup, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone 7 Tutorials

March 27, 10 //
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This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by guest host Clint Rutkas to discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

  • This week on Channel 9 is now on iTunes
  • Mike Swanson – MIX10 Wrap Up
    • Interesting because: Lots of fun facts about MIX10 including the on-demand traffic spike, miles of cabling, Red Bull bottles
  • Larry Larsen – Dungeons & Dragons on Microsoft Surface 
    • Interesting because: Playing D&D on Surface is the coolest+geekiest thing you can do 
  • Charles Torre – JavaScript – Project JSMeter
    • Interesting because: JSMeter analyzes JavaScript from the top Web sites to profile real-world JS performance and it’s used for IE9 
  • Brian Keller – Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Virtual Machines with Sample Data and Hands-On Labs
    • Interesting because: If you’re looking to get started with TFS, this ready-to-run VM includes sample data and hands on labs  
  • Sara Ford - Visual Studio Color Theme Editor
    • Interesting because: You can change the Visual Studio chrome colors (aka remove purple) 
  • Simone Chiaretta - Delete Visual Studio artifact folders & SVN folders, via Alvin Ashcraft
    • Interesting because: You can right click in Windows Explorer and clean your project up
  • Christian Schormann – Using Paths in a ListBox in Silverlight 4
    • Interesting because: It’s a step-by-step tutorial for building a circular path for a ListBox
  • Robby Ingebretsen - 10 Favorite Open source fonts you can embed in WPF or Silverlight
    • Interesting because: Free and beautiful fonts 
  • Steve Clayton - I <3 Windows Phone Desktop Wallpapers
    • Interesting because: Everyone loves the iconic I <3 Windows Phone 
  • Channel 9 - Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Course
    • Interesting because: Great resource for building your first Windows Phone applications using Silverlight or XNA 
  • Scott Guthrie – Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application in Silverlight
    • Interesting because: It’s a step-by-step tutorial for building the Twitter application Scott built in the MIX keynote 
  • Jeff Wilcox – Reusing the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone
    • Interesting because: Jeff walks through his testing of specific parts of the Silverlight Toolkit that work and don’t work on Windows Phone 
  • Daniel Vaughan – CodeProject – Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game
    • Interesting because: Tutorial on building a Silverlight game for Windows Phone 
  • Andy Beaulieu - Physics Helper Deluxe Running on Windows Phone
    • Interesting because: Physics Helper is a great library that you can easily reuse for building physics games

Picks of the week:

Windows Phone 7 Series Shazam App: MIX 2010 Keynote

March 25, 10 //
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Jeff Sandquist demos Shazam on the Windows Phone 7 Series during the MIX10 keynote Address. Shazam is an amazing music discovery engine that allows you to find, buy and share the song that is playing right now. But don’t listen to me- let Jeff tell you!

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