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Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Profiler” - Part 9 of 8)

This post is a “missing part” of series about new features in Windows Phone Mango New and very important feature of Windows Phone “Mango” Developer Tools is the profiler. The profiler enables the developers of Silverlight applications (currently only Silverlight scenarios are supported) to sense important heartbeats of the application and collect information about application behavior at runtime. To measure the performance or the application, navigate to Debug menu option and select Start Windows...

Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“New Sensors & Tooling Enhancements” - Part 3 of 8)

Windows Phone devices are modern devices. As such, they usually have few sensors such as built-in accelerometer, A-GPS, light sensor, magnetometer, etc. Windows Phone minimum hardware spec requires that all Windows Phone will have at least 4 of them – A-GPS, Accelerometer, Compass and Light sensors. While accelerometer and A-GPS were available for developers with first version of Windows Phone, there are some new sensors which were added with Mango. The hardware market is not standing still, thus...

Windows Phone 7 Quick Tip: How to use Bing Maps in XNA games

A few days ago, a colleague of mine pointed out to this site which shows a Bing Maps usage within XNA game. I was intrigued how to achieve it… I know that Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7 could use Bing Maps control (see great usage tutorial here ), but XNA games cannot render Silverlight controls… To solve it, I decided to use a different approach for XNA – download image tiles and present them in XNA game. Let’s get started. First, in order to use Bing Maps API you need a Bing Maps...

Teaser: Multi-Screen

Something big is coming… Imagine PC, imagine phone, imagine game console… Image all of them playing same game… Imagine player with phone playing versus player on console or player on PC… Imagine player starting the game in public transport at the way home and resuming it after arriving home on the console… Imagine that everything is possible…   Just imagine… and enjoy the photo meanwhile :) Stay tuned for more to come!   Enjoy, Alex

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Push Notifications (Part 2 of 2)

In previous post I described how to build server part of push notification mechanism for Windows Phone 7. This time I’ll show how to handle push notifications on the phone. To demonstrate it I created pretty simple Silverlight application for Windows Phone. The UI of this application looks like the follows: Lets see how the push mechanism is implemented. Phone API defines a class, which responsible for push notifications: HttoNotificationChannel . This class is responsible for subscribing to events...

Silverlight 4 – Open House

Silverlight 4 coming to the North (of Israel)! Tomorrow afternoon I’ll hold an open house about Silverlight 4 for Haifa and surroundings based developers. The open house will take a place in Philips building (building No. 34) at MATAM (Haifa industrial area). Registration is FREE but required (subject to free sitting places availability and auditorium capacity). More information and registration proceed here . Thanks to Sela Group and Philips Israel to organize it!   Cool samples, live coding...

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh Available

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP refresh available! This build is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 RTM! For those who are in Silverlight development – from now it is possible to develop Silverlight 4 applications with Silverlight 4 RTW and Windows Phone 7 applications with this CTP refresh.   The download location here . Make sure you are reading what’s new document here and Release Notes (from download location). Additional information about changes could be found here .   Enjoy! Alex

Silverlight 4 Available

Silverlight 4 finally here!!! It works with Visual Studio 2010 RTM ! All downloads you need to start developing great line of business applications: Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Blend 4 RC here Silverlight 4 Toolkit (April 2010)   For those who are in Windows Phone 7 development : Do not install this build ! If you need to develop for Windows Phone 7 stay with Silverlight 4 RC build and Visual Studio 2010 RC. The update for Windows Phone 7 tools is not ready yet and will be available...

Silverlight 4 Tutorial @SDP

My Silverlight 4 Tutorial day at SDP is over. I’d like to thank all participants!!!   As promised, here is source of application I’ve build during the session. Additional samples here and here . Labs could be found here .   See you at Silverlight 4 session tomorrow :) Alex

Silverlight 4: What’s New?

Today Microsoft announced new version of Silverlight, and released the Beta version of Silverlight 4. Here is the summary of new features in this version: Better Out of Browser Applications Elevated Privileges Support Cross Domain Networking Access Full file path from Open/SaveFileDialog No User-Initiation Requirement for Full Screen, Open/SaveFileDialogs COM interop HTML Hosting Support Media Enhancements WMS Multicast Support Mp4 Playback Protected by PlayReady DRM Offline DRM Output Protection...

PDC09 Day 1 – Dynamics in C# 4

Switched to the Dynamics in C# 4 session. This session hall is not full at all… I’d rather say it is pretty empty… Probably this session is for real technology geeks like me :)   Did you know, that you cold create your own dynamic object by deriving from DynamicObject base class? class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { dynamic d = new myDynamic (); Console .WriteLine(d++); } } class myDynamic : DynamicObject { public override bool TryUnaryOperation( UnaryOperationBinder binder, out...

What’s new in Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 – DevDay (22 July 2009)

Silverlight 3 will be released very soon . Many new features were added, many improvements were made. Come and see me presenting what’s new in Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 at Microsoft Israel Offices, 22 July 2009. I will talk about new features, new and improved technologies. Will see Silverlight 3 tools and features in current version of Visual Studio 2008 and in upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 (Beta). Will see what’s new in Expression Blend 3. Many cool demos, tips & tricks...

Silverlight & Visual Studio 2010 Beta

As you probably know, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 was released to MSDN subscribers and soon will be released to general public here . What is new in this release for Silverlight developers? First of all – Silverlight is a first class citizen in this release, like WPF for example. More good news - now we will be able to create/manage both version of Silverlight projects (2 and 3)! When you choosing to create a new Silverlight projects, you will be prompted with dialog which allows to select the version...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework CTP Downloads

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web. This CTP release is available in English only as a Virtual PC image. Download page for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP is here . Direct links: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/7/4/97467b12-d04b-463f-b703-0e334c177799/VisualStudio2010CTP_11PartsTotal.part11.rar http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/7/4/97467b12...