Being a windows phone developer I must say that the Mango platform update has me very excited (except a 30min and 15 second agent restriction leaves me underwhelmed – but that’s another story). One aspect of Mango that Microsoft have…
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From demo to featured application
Part of the agenda for each WPUG meeting is to give time for people to demonstrate their application to the rest of the attendees. These applications can be a finished product or something that has just been started by the…
Cardiff – WPUG March 2011
Ok so meeting Number 1 down and definite call for more! From the feedback that I have received people did find it very useful and they are also expecting more. Some pointers to follow on from my talk: The developer…
WP7 Text Boxes – OnEnter (my 1st Behaviour).
One problem I have encountered on various WP7 apps (including my own applications) is moving between text boxes on a page. The problem can present itself when the SIP is being displayed in front of the next control that requires…
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet…
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Where is my 3rd screen?
With MS using the new catch phrase ‘To the cloud’ and saying things like ‘three screens and the cloud’. You would think that they would consider their cross device support even if those devices are all Microsoft based ones. We…
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Posted in Cloud, Silverlight, xBox
I made this too …
Well ok so I did the easy bit! Anyway say hello to Ed Hole It all started at 1am on Tuesday 26th and after a long labour that started with my partner Helen wanting a water birth in Llandough Hospital…
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I made this …
Pathfinder has finally hit the app marketplace for the UK. We will be posting a video of some of the features very soon. I am quite proud to say that this app went from being a simple ‘featured’ application to…
Launch day shopping…
Just had a mooch around Cardiff to see what’s out there in WP7 land and here is what I found: Orange Posters in the windows and the shops have had stock yay! One shop was given one - which they…
WP7 Don’t give false impressions.
Looking at our app submission I spotted that our app states that it requires access to the phones identity: Looking at the WMAppManifest.xml shows that the app doesn’t state that it will do this: So it must be my code.…
Mike Hole 