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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...

Windows Phone 7 Israeli Forum by Tomer Shamam

לא ידעתם? לא שמעתם? נפתח במיקרוסופט פורום חדש בנושא Windows Phone 7 בעברית! אז קדימה, למה לחכות? צרו חשבון Windows Live ותרגישו חופשי לשאול שאלות בכל נושא הקשור לפיתוח Windows Phone 7. את הפורום תמצאו בכתובת: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/he-il/WindowsPhonedevil אגב, אני אחד המנהלים שם, אז דירבאלאק, לא לפרסם שטויות…

Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone v1.3 has been released by Tomer Shamam

You can download the new version from codeplex , it’s now support the new WPDT 7.1 RC . The new version includes great updates, including: Support for SQL Azure as a membership provider. Support for SQL Azure as a data source through using OData. Updates for the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 1.4 and the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 RC . Upgraded the web application ASP.NET MVC 3. BabelCam full source code, available at Windows Phone Marketplace .

Installing Windows Phone Mango on HD2 by Tomer Shamam

So you’re stuck with your HD2, running Windows Mobile 6.5, or Windows Phone pre Mango? Two XDA members: xboxmod and YukiXDA revealed WP Mango ROM for HD2. You may find these instructions from XDA developers very helpful , installing Windows Phone Mango on your HD2 device. I wish you a Good Luck, you may need it

Submit your Mango Applications to the Marketplace by Tomer Shamam

Microsoft has just announced that the Marketplace is accepting Mango edition Applications. So just in case that you’ve kept your mango applications ready in your hard-drive, waiting to this moment, this is the time! First, you must uninstall beta Mango SDK from your machine and install the new WP RC SDK. You can download it from this page . After installing the new SDK, you should recompile your applications and use Marketplace Test Kit directly from Visual Studio. This runs the same tests that the...

Windows Phone Enhanced Application Bar or Bindable AppBar – Part I by Tomer Shamam

I’ve just got sick working with the strange implementation of the default Windows Phone Silverlight Application Bar, and the reasons are: Nonstandard Silverlight control lack of Data Binding Lack of Commanding support Completely non-MVVM friendly So I developed my own solution which looks much the same without the cons. Usage of the standard AppBar: Code Snippet <!--Sample code showing usage of ApplicationBar--> < phone : PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar > < shell : ApplicationBar...

Open Links inside the WebBrowser control or outside using IE by Tomer Shamam

Windows Phone WebBrowser control is a great option for those applications that should host HTML content. Using the WebBrowser control is so simple, you just have to instantiate one and start using it by just calling the Navigate method: Code Snippet < Grid x : Name ="ContentPanel" Grid.Row ="1" Margin ="12,0,12,0"> < phone : WebBrowser Name ="webBrowser" /> </ Grid > Code Snippet webBrowser.Navigate( new Uri ( "blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs...

Get ready for Windows Phone 7.5 – Part 6 – Reminders and Alarms by Tomer Shamam

בפוסט הקודם דיברתי על Scheduled Tasks, והראתי כיצד ניתן ליצור תהליכי רקע שפועלים למרות שהאפליקציה אינה רצה בקדמה. בפוסט זה אראה כיצד ניתן ליצור Reminders ו- Alarms שפועלים מבלי שהאפליקציה שאחראית אליהם רצה בקדמה. Scheduled Notifications בגרסת מנגו יש שני סוגי Scheduled Notifications: Alarm – מציג הודעה מתוזמנת עם אפשרות בחירת Sound. Reminder – דומה ל- Alarm בנוסף, בעת לחיצה על ההודעה מזניק את האפליקציה ומעביר לה מידע רלוונטי. דוגמאת קוד Code Snippet private void ButtonSetAlarm_Click( object sender...

Get ready for Windows Phone 7.5 – Part 5 – Scheduled Task (Hebrew) by Tomer Shamam

בפוסט הקודם דיברתי על Background File Transfer והראתי כיצד ניתן להוריד קבצים משרת ברקע, מבלי שהאפליקציה שלנו רצה בקדמה. בפוסט זה אציג תהליכים נוספים שניתן להריץ ברקע בגרסת מנגו. Background Agents נניח שאתם מעונינים לכתוב אפליקציה שרצה ברקע, ומבצעת סינכרון נתונים מול השרת, או שולחת נתונים שנאספו בעת ריצת האפליקציה. כידוע בגרסת תרום מנגו לא ניתן להריץ אפליקציה ברקע. כלומר אם יצאתם מהאפליקציה ע”י לחיצה על כפתור Start, האפליקציה יורדת מזכרון המכשיר וה- Process לא רץ (Tombstoning). בגרסת מנגו האפליקציה...

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...