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An end to the good times before they even start? …

On may the 18th I published an article that actually managed the biggest view numbers that I have had on any blog post that I have previously written: More good times for app developers? I think this is mainly down

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Posted in ARM, C#, Phone, Silverlight, Windows 8, WP7

More good times for app developers?

UPDATE: 6th June 2011 Hi, I just added a new post that expresses my disappointment in the messages that have come from the Windows 8 launch: https://mikehole.com/2011/06/06/an-end-to-the-good-times-before-they-even-start/ Just a short post to get something that has just started swishing about

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Posted in ARM, C#, Silverlight, Tablets, Windows 8

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

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Posted in Phone, Silverlight, WP7

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

WP7 What to do before the tools are released.

Ok so you have just read the announcement on the Windows Phone Developer Blog that we won’t be seeing the tools for a few more weeks. And you have just read that the Pano Pivot and Bing maps controls are

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Posted in Phone, Silverlight, VS2010, WP7

oData call debugging.

  If you find yourself looking at error responses from the WCF data service  that only tell you ‘An error occurred while processing this request’ from a WCF Data Service then… Just add:             config.UseVerboseErrors = true; to the method:

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Posted in DataService, oData, Silverlight, WP7

Dynamics CRM 4 with Silverlight Part 1 – The IFRAME approach.

Introduction 29/72010: Sorry but I am going to be dropping this series because my software focus has change to developing Windows Phone 7 applications. Maybe re visit this in the future (hopefully before CRM 5 is released Hi, this is

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Posted in Dynamics CRM, Silverlight, VS2010, xRm

Microsoft getting stick for using Flash again.

Somehow I missed it but Microsoft launched a new phone platform recently (Kin). This comprises of two phones that have quite different factors but have one main purpose, to be the users social hub. To promote the new phones Microsoft have put

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Posted in Flash, Kin, Silverlight

And so it starts!

Tomorrow we see the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight V4. I for one can’t wait as it will give me loads to blog about! Technorati Tags: VS2010,Silverlight

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Posted in Silverlight, VS2010