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Update your Windows Phone with build 7712 (Early build of Mango RC) by Tomer Shamam

For those of you who participated in the Connect program and already have the Mango Beta 2 OS, Microsoft just released a new “Beta 2 Refresh”, build 7712, for the Windows Phone, which is a pre-mango release, working with the new WPSDK 7.1. You should follow these steps to install the new update: Place the backup you took when you updated to the Mango Beta 2 pre-release in a safe place. THIS IS A MUST. Download the new files from Connect.Microsoft.com which includes a new Zune client and a new UpdateWP...

Materials from Windows Phone Open House at Sela Group by Tomer Shamam

Thanks to all of you who participated in my Windows Phone open house session today at Sela Group , it was a great pleasure. Here are some of the topics we’ve discussed about: - Windows Phone Concept and Metro UI - Hardware foundation - App Hub registration and unlocking the phone for development - Silverlight application deployment - UI development with Visual Studio 2010 and Blend - Fast Application Switching and Application Lifetime (Tombstoning and Dormancy) - Background Tasks - Push notifications...

Windows Phone development team officially signed off on the RTM build of Mango by Tomer Shamam

Earlier this morning, the Windows Phone development team officially signed off on the release to manufacturing (RTM) build of “Mango”. These are a great news and soon we are going to have Mango RTM in our pockets (at least mine). Currently I’m running Windows Phone Mango Beta 2, and I really hope that Microsoft won’t forget us, the beta testers of this great edition. After all we sacrificed our personal devices. Now we are in the hand of the mobile manufacturers, HTC, Samsung, etc. Hope that they...

Windows Phone Open House at Sela Group by Tomer Shamam

Tomorrow I’m having an Open House about Windows Phone Programming at Sela Group Headquarters, Bnei Brak. I’m going to provide overview of what Windows Phone is all about and how simple it is developing applications and games for this platform with Silverlight and XNA which both are .NET technologies. Also I’m going to review new features in the new Windows Phone Mango Beta 2 SDK. So aren’t you coming? it’s free! Hope to see you tomorrow.

Get ready for Windows Phone 7.5 – Part 4 – Background File Transfer (Hebrew) by Tomer Shamam

בפוסט הקודם דיברתי באופן כללי על תהליכים שניתן להריץ ברקע בגרסת מנגו, ובפרט כיצד ליצור Agent שיודע לנגן קבצי שמע ולהגיב לפקודות ברקע למרות שהאפליקציה הראשית אינה רצה בקדמה. בפוסט זה אסביר כיצד ליצור אפליקציה שיודעת להוריד קבצים ברקע. Background File Transfer נניח לרגע שברצונכם ליצור אפליקציה חדשה, שיודעת להחליף Ringtone של הצלצול הראשי (בגרסת מנגו יש API's מיוחדים לזה), ובנוסף ברצונכם לספק למשתמשים יכולת להוריד Ringtones חדשים מהשרת שלכם (בחינם, בתשלום, מה שתבחרו). הרי שלא כל כך הגיוני לגרום...

I've successfully installed Windows Phone Mango Beta 2 on my HD7 by Tomer Shamam

I did it! I've successfully installed Windows Phone Mango Beta 2 on my HD7 device. Thanks god, it works amazing! Since now I'm under NDA I can't tell you much but: The upgrade process successfully backed up my previous OS. The upgrade process worked smoothly with no problems at all and now I'm running Mango Beta 2 OS. The upgrade process kept all my personal data and settings (Emails, Pictures, Music, etc.). Mango is amazing! I highly recommend you to participate in the Connect program...

YallaApps Just opened my private Windows Phone for Development by Tomer Shamam

According to Tzvia's post from Microsoft Israel , I've registered YallaApps for free, and they opened my personal Windows Phone for development. Have to say that the process was smooth and with no pains, and the support team are great. Thank! To those of you in my country who didn't open the phone yet, hurry-up, it's still free till end of this month. Then the account will be transferred from YallaApps to App Hub automatically for free. If you're curious about the registration...

Get ready for Windows Phone 7.5 – Part 3 – Background Audio (Hebrew) by Tomer Shamam

בפוסט הקודם דיברתי על Fast Application Switching, אחת מהיכולות החדשות והחשובות בגרסה החדשה של Windows Phone. בפוסט זה אציג תכונה חדשה שנקראת Background Audio המאפשרת ניגון ושליטה על אודיו ברקע. הרעיון המרכזי בגרסה החדשה הוא לאפשר למשתמש לבצע פעולות ברקע, ועם זאת מבלי שה-Process ירוץ במקביל ויבזבז משאבים יקרים. אחת מהפעולות שניתן להריץ ברקע בשיטה זו הינה ניגון ושליטה על אודיו מקוד שאתם כתבתם. לדוגמה, אתם מעונינים ליצור נגן מדיה חדש, עם יכולות שלא קיימות בנגן המקורי. עם זאת אתם מעונינים שהמוסיקה תמשיך...