Essential WPF

Updating to Windows Phone Mango Final Version by Tomer Shamam

Just connected my HD7 device to Zune today, and guess what? I’ve got this lovely message: Yea, finally I’m updating my Windows Phone to Mango final version 7720. Wish me a good luck. UPDATE While updating, my device restarted one time, and then got this message in Zune: Waited about 10min and nothing! I’ve clicked Cancel, disconnected and connected my phone again, then I’ve got this message: It’s a beta cleanup update! I’ve clicked Update, my phone restarted and after ~2min I’ve got this: Checking...

Windows Phone SDK 7.1 RTW is here! by Tomer Shamam

Just in case that you’ve missed the party, Windows Phone SDK 7.1 RTW is now available for download. The Windows Phone SDK includes the following: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Windows Phone Emulator Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Assemblies Silverlight 4 SDK and DRT Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Extensions for XNA Game Studio 4.0 Microsoft Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone 7 Microsoft Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone OS 7.1 WCF Data Services Client for Window Phone Microsoft Advertising...

Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) is finally rolling out by Tomer Shamam

About two hours ago, Microsoft announced the rolling out of Windows Phone 7.5 , the highly anticipated version of the Windows Phone OS. For those of you who already have it, nothing’s new right? well, happy to disappoint you. Microsoft kept new cool features in the closet for the release of this version. Here are some of them: Internet Sharing (tethering) – Depends on your carrier, you’ll see that option as Internet Sharing under settings. This cool feature supports up to 5 connections at the same...

Windows Phone Assets by Tomer Shamam

I have just published a new Windows Phone project at CodePlex, called Windows Phone Assets . Windows Phone Assets is a development library for Windows Phone developers. This library enhances and extends existing features and controls of the Windows Phone SDK. Currently there are two assets published and there will be more in the near future. Notification Box Notification Box is a replacement for the non-customizable Windows Phone MessageBox native control. The NotificationBox custom control has Control...