Adding a map image to a secondary live tile.Does your app use live tiles to pin a tile that relates to a location that has a known Latitude and Longitude? If so did you know that it is easy to have a map of that location appear on that tile. Th
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
Cardiff–WPUG #2On June 1st we had the second user group meeting in Cardiff. It was quite an impressive turnout and I would like to say thanks to all those who came along. We do have a nice group of people building w
Tile MakerOne of my applications on the marketplace is the countdown tile application. This is a simple application that when pinned to the home screen lets you see a countdown of the number of days until a cer
The WP7 Marketplace and the EnterpriseBeing 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 as
From demo to featured applicationPart 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 ju
Cardiff – WPUG March 2011Ok 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:
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 th
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’ appli
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 had so
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 i
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
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.UseVerbose
Windows Phone 7 – Starting outThe one thing about having to take a train home after an event is that is gives you a chance to create a blog entry after it, yesterday was a long day so please forgive any mistakes! Yesterday I atten