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I just had a cool idea! (actually I had it like 6 month ago, but bear with me). My idea involves mixing some of the features in Windows 7 with some of the features in Windows Phone 7, to create a glorious mix! Windows 7 One of the new features in Windows 7 is the Sensor API which provides a standard interface for accessing sensors of various types, like accelerometer , etc.. I wrote in the past about how you can consume this API from a C# application using Windows API Code Pack . Windows...
I've recently published a 41 chapters tutorial in Hebrew about developing application using Windows Phone. The tutorial is hosted on the great Hebrew developers community site: WebMaster.org.il The tutorial is based on Windows Phone Mango and it teaches Windows Phone development from the first step, using Visual Studio 2010 Express , provided freely by Microsoft. Following is the index for all chapters: Introduction & Working Environment First Application XAML Language Setting Properties...
Sela Technology Center is proud to present Sela Developer Days 2011 which will be held on June 26-30 . One stage - hottest topics - Israel and world lead experts . A rare opportunity to hear all about the next big things in our technological world. 25 full-day workshops 15 lead experts 5 days You can find the full agenda on the conference website . Although I recommend ALL the lectures, I believe my blog readers will most enjoy the following workshops: 26/06 Silverlight 5 by Alex Golesh 27/06 LOB...
Before we continue, I trust that you know exactly the meaning of tombstone state in a Windows Phone 7 application. If this is not the case, simply read Yochay ’s great posts on the application execution model ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ). Every Windows Phone 7 application needs to manages tombstoning correctly to provide a better user experience and pass the application certification requirements . When your application goes into tombstone state, it is your responsibility to save all the application...
This session was delivered by Thomas Fennel, Program manager, from Microsoft. Thomas stated his session by showing what push notifications and tiles are. Push notification is how you can engage the user when your app is not on the foreground. Tiles are the squares on the Windows Phone home screen. Toast notifications – on the top. Tile notifications – most popular – includes data for count, title (of app or arbitrary string) and background image. Then, Thomas explained the normal architecture for...
This session was delivered by Mark Paley, Principal Lead Program Manager from Microsoft. The next version of Windows Phone will support a few new sensors, like Gyro and Compass sensors. Mark started the session by showing several camera and sensors demo. Some common usage scenario: Sudoku solver Barcode scanner Custom photo application etc. So, what sensors are supported? Accelerometer – standard on all windows phone devices, provides acceleration data over 3 axis Compass – gives magnetic heading...
This mini-session was delivered by Vibhor Agarwal, Senior Program Manager from Microsoft. Vibhor presented only the new Emulator enhancements and the new profiler provided in the next version of the developer tools. Some of the new emulator enhancements: Memory model improvements Media support for H.264, AAC Sensor support – Accelerometer and Location Vibhor showed a demo about the new accelerometer emulation: and new location emulation: Then, Vibhor presented how one can use the new profiler to...
This mini-session was delivered by Adina Trufinescu. The agenda for this session was: Application Resume User Experience Application Lifecycle Phone Resource Management Key Developer Scenarios Adina started by discussing the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed Mango , where there is much improvements in the area of returning to a previously active application. To take advantage of this in your application you will need to recompile your application against the new developers tools. Adina then...
Yet another post on MIX 2011 second day keynotes. The Keynotes started by Joe Belfiore presenting some information about how Windows Phone Updates are done. Specifically, Joe answered the common questions: Why the update came later than anticipated? (deployments bugs..) Who decides when to update? (MS and the operators) Joe stated that there are currently almost 13K apps in the Windows Phone market. The next edition of Windows Phone Ecosystem will support 16 additional languages and up to 35 countries...
This session was delivered by Laurent Bugnion , the creator of MVVM Light . In this session Laurent talked about advanced MVVM topics that every WPF/SL developer face sooner or later. Laurent used a demo application an showed how to solve some common issues. For example, how can one share view-models between several different platforms (Silverlight / WP7), short answer: add shared files as links. Also discussed: what strategy should be used to create view-models and exposes them. Short answer: Either...
Note: the following article was first published as part of the Windows Phone Recipe “Shake Gestures Library” found here , which I wrote for Microsoft, together with Yochay Kiriaty . Document Purpose This document introduces a helper library for identifying shake gestures by using the accelerometer built into Windows Phone 7 devices. It explains how to use the library, how the library works internally, and how you can configure the library’s parameters to adapt gesture detection to your needs. Library...
Note: the following article was first published as part of the Windows Phone Recipe “Ways to Load Applications Faster” found here , which I wrote for Microsoft, together with Yochay Kiriaty . Purpose of This Document This document introduces the loading procedure for Windows Phone Silverlight applications. It explains common mistakes that application developers make during application launch, and how those errors can increase the total application load time and harm the user experience. Next, this...
Yesterday I’ve delivered my lecture titled “ 3-Screens Development using WPF, SL and WP7 ” in the SDP 2011 conference. In this lecture I’ve presented the application FlashCards.Show which has 3 clients in WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. I showed how to share the code base between the different clients using: MVVM Adding files as links Preprocessor symbols OOP Portable Library tools Then I showed a few features that exist in WPF and don’t exist in Silverlight, and how one can overcome this gap...
Following is another post by Yochay Kiriaty on a project I’ve done for Microsoft involving WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure. If you’re interested in more details, make sure you come to my presentation at the coming SDP 2011 conference (in two days!). [Cross-posted from http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/03/03/flashcards-show-planning-a-cross-platform-solution.aspx ] I recently blogged about Flashcards.Show Version 2 for WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone...
Following is a great post by Yochay Kiriaty on a project I’ve done involving WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure. If you’re interested in more details, make sure you come to my presentation at the coming SDP 2011 conference. [Cross-posted from http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/developers/archive/2011/02/17/flashcards-show-version-2-for-the-desktop-browser-and-windows-phone.aspx ] The Flashcards.show application has been around for few months now. It is mostly used as a developer...
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