In the past I have written about dealing with data on Windows Phone 7, including WCF Services, WCF Data Services and Isolated Storage. One thing that was missing in the initial release is native RDBMS, such as SQL CE. Luckily, Mango update that should be released later this year finally exposes SQL CE to developers. …
Monday, May 16, 2011 6:00p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Register: http://bit.ly/RegWP7Hackathon Don’t miss this opportunity to get hands on help with your Windows Phone 7 app, from the experts! This is a "hands on" hackathon where you will learn from Windows Phone 7, XNA and Azure experts how to build, scale and publish your Windows Phone …
Between January 1, 2011 and June 30, 2011, when you develop and submit a Windows Phone 7 app into the Windows Phone Marketplace, you can be eligible for a chance to win a Windows Phone 7 (approximate retail value: $500 U.S.). Every valid Windows Phone 7 app you submit will earn you one entry into …
I have a CodePlex project for Isolated Storage based database for Windows phone 7. You can check out this project at http://winphone7db.codeplex.com/ First step is to download the project and build it on your copter. Visit the download page for the latest recommended download. Unzip the source code on your machine, open it up …
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I am starting a short series of blog posts that will go over various techniques of working with data on Windows Phone 7. I am going to create a Silverlight application for the phone that gets local and remote data in a number of ways. I this first post I will build a WCF service …
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I checked the download statistics of my applications for Windows Phone 7 in the App Store, and to my surprise I have quite a few downloads! Mr. Fortune’s Famous Quotes is a free application that generates a random famous quote on demand, accompanied by a cool animation effect. As you can see, that application has …
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I have published an update to the calendar control on my CodePlex project dedicated to building common controls for Windows Phone 7. I added a number of new features. The biggest improvement added is the ability to use context menu from Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. In order to provide this feature, I added …
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I started new CodePlex project for controls for Windows Phone 7. One control I needed for my next application is calendar control. I could not find one, so I started thinking about one a little while ago. Today I published an alpha version of calendar control. You can find it here http://wpcontrols.codeplex.com/. Calendar control supports …
It this post I want to describe the process I went though building and publishing my first Silverlight application for Windows Phone 7. It is currently being tested, and I hope I will pass the test this time. I went through a couple of iterations of testing already, learning in the process from my mistakes. …
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Since Microsoft now released RTM version of their tools for Windows Phone 7 development, I updated my phone database project to the latest version as well. You can find this project here : http://winphone7db.codeplex.com/. I added also a new feature – ability to create tables with data on desktop, then load them into the database …