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Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:35 PM

Books, books, books

Seems like today is “books” day. Working really hard for last few months, I completely forgot to blog about the book which I took part in! Announcing: Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight: Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs Few months ago, 15 MVPs from around the globe joined together to write an ultimate resource book for discovering and understanding the C#, .NET 4 Framework and Windows Phone 7.5. Today the book is published, and available at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Real-World-NET...
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Saturday, October 01, 2011 1:49 PM

My Session at UNETAPlus

Few hours ago I delivered a session about creating Silverlight/XNA hybrid applications for Windows Phone Mango. I like to thank all the participants – you were great and I had a great pleasure to present for such quality audience. I loved the questions and the conversation after the session. The slides deck I used for presentation can be download from the here .   As promised, the demo applications also published and can be downloaded from the following locations: Demo #1 is here . Demo #2 is...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:38 AM

Vote for my sessions at TechDays Canada 2011

My sessions made into short voting list to TechDays Canaga 2011. My sessions are: WIN314 - Mango: Silverlight and XNA – Better together! WIN319 - Mango: Search Integration WIN320 - Mango: Background Agents at Work Vote for my sessions at: http://bit.ly/tdcan2011vote   Thanks, Alex
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011 7:49 AM

Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) Developer Tools–RC Release!

Microsoft just released a new refresh of Windows Phone Mango developer tools (WPDT) – the RC. This release includes “Go Live” license that permits registered developers to publish Mango applications to the Marketplace! What changed/added: The profiler has been improved, and now provide memory profiling as well The emulator has a couple improvements to make development and testing better: The RTM build (build 7720) is used by the emulator, providing you with confidence that the code you write will...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:46 PM

Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Silverlight/XNA Interoperability” - Part 7 of 8)

Windows Phone RTM didn’t allowed to mix Silverlight and XNA content. Mango enables the scenarios where Silverlight content can be rendered along with XNA content. In the sample presented in this post we will build 2-pager Silverlight application with pure Silverlight page (1st page) and mixed 3D XNA & Silverlight page (2nd page). Final application looks like the following: In order to ease on the developers, after installing Mango developer tools, Visual Studio provides us with two templates...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:33 PM

Windows Phone Mango–What’s New? (“Overview” - Part 0 of 8)

The Beta version of “Windows Phone Mango” tools release and it is a time to see what is expected from developers point of view. This post is a first part of multi-part “What’s new” series which focuses on new features of “Windows Phone Mango” (or shortly Mango from this point). The Mango brings to the developer many features which we missed from initial release of Windows Phone 7 (or shortly RTM from this point). The “formal” features list includes the following features: Multi-tasking Fast Application...
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Monday, May 16, 2011 8:23 PM

WP7 Acceleration Week in Microsoft Israel R&D Center

Seems this week dedicated to announcements because I have additional announcement to made! Next week I will deliver many Windows Phone 7 & Windows Phone “Mango” sessions as a part of “WP7 Acceleration Week”.   The week agenda is as follows: Sunday, May 22 nd 09:00-13:30 · Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp and Demo – An overview of the Windows Phone 7 platform and its abilities. Presented by Sela. · Mobile Application UI – Principles of good mobile UI. Presented by Balora. · Introduction to WP7 Metro...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:58 PM

Windows Phone “Mango”–What’s coming in near future?

During 2nd day keynotes ScottGu and Joe Belfiore announced upcoming version of Windows Phone – codename Mango. They demostrated a cool demos and provided information about upcoming features. The update for developer tools will ship in near future as Scott said. The highlights of features for upcoming release are: Multitasking: fast app switching (FAS) and Windows Phone background agents. IE9 is coming to Windows Phone with HTML5 support. Additional sensor and runtime access: Additional sensor APIs...
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:31 AM

TechEd Israel 2010 – “XNA Game Studio 4.0: Code Once, Play Everywhere”– Session Slides and Code

Yesterday I presented a session dedicated to games in Dev Track of TechEd Israel 2010. Thanks for all participants – it was a great honor to present for you! The session slides hosted here . The sample I wrote hosted here . Hope you enjoyed the session, will be glad for your feedback Alex
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Sunday, October 31, 2010 12:31 AM

PDC10–thoughts a minute after it finished

PDC10 is over. Now it is a time to think about how it was and summarize the experience. For me it was very special PDC. It was very special because of two things: First – I delivered a session during the PDC Workshop! My session was about XNA Game Development for Windows Phone 7. Thanks for all participants – it was a great honor to present for you. The sample I’ve presented during the demo hosted here . The samples I’ve presented from the phone are the part of XNA Creators Club Education Content...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:41 PM

PDC10 Workshop Session

Tomorrow I’m flying to Redmond, WA to take a part at PDC10. I believe it will be very special PDC and not only because of its location.   PDC10 Workshop taking place on October 30 th , the day after PDC10. During this day I’ll present at “ Beginning XNA Development for Windows Phone 7 ” session. My session slot is from 14:00-15:00 , right after the lunch :)   If you lucky to be at PDC10, staying a day after it ends and want to learn how to start XNA development, when use XNA and when Silverlight...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:32 PM

TechEd Israel 2010 – “XNA Game Studio 4.0: Code Once, Play Everywhere” Session announcement

Next month, 28-30 November, I’m going to TechEd Israel 2010 . At the conference I have a session dedicated to games! During the session I will show how to build the real world computer game running on such various platforms as Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360 and PC. A lot of fun and cool sample are “on the house” :) For additional details about the development tools and technologies track (which hosts my session) follow the  link: http://www.microsoft.com/israel/TechEd2010/Tracks/DEV.aspx   See...
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Friday, October 22, 2010 10:31 AM

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...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:56 AM

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
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Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:49 PM

Windows Phone Developer Tools Released!

Today the Windows Phone Developer Tools have gone final! Download the tools from here ! Read the release notes – quite a few changes from previous Beta version. Documentation (MSDN) for the Windows Phone development here .   Stay tuned for more!   Enjoy, Alex
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