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Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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Windows Phone 7.5 Programming in C#

The Windows Phone Programming in C# Faculty Resources by Rob Miles has recently been updated at Microsoft's faculty resource center. Here are the sections that are now updated for Windows Phone 7.5 (7.1 OS)... and a made up book cover:

Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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Silverlight Navigation Framework XAML Escape Sequence

The XAML escape sequence and the navigation framework for Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 5 is discussed in a quick and useful tutorial by Alex van Beek. He discusses a common scenario when using the navigation framework:When you use the navigation framework...

Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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App Profile Control Code for Windows Phone

Need to make a profile page feature in your next Windows Phone app? Well, Alex Yakhnin got tired of recoding this functionality for his apps so he a control called 'ProfileItem' that is available for implementation in your own apps. Take a look at this...

John Esposito10/27/11
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The (almost) simplicity of Websockets and the mobile web

On a somewhat more feet-on-the-ground note than my last WebSockets post, Dominique Guinard on Web of Things discusses how WebSockets can be used right now. In his own words:

Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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Poll: HTML5 Turns 5! What Features Have You Used?

Happy Birthday HTML5!Yes, I'd say that the 5-year anniversary of the blog post "Reinventing HTML" by Tim Berners-Lee counts as the birthday for the HTML5 working group and standard. In 2006 the Berners-Lee...

Henry Lee10/27/11
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Windows Phone 7 Application Obfuscation using PreEmptive obfuscator

Recently, I wanted to make sure that Windows Phone 7 applications we publish are protected with obfuscation and since PreEmptive provides a free professional tool called Dotfuscator, I thought I'd give it a try. I've been using DeepSeaObfuscator for years...

Mitch Pronschinske10/26/11
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Nokia Unveils its First Windows Phone: Lumia 800

You may have seen previews earlier of the multicolored devices that were in the works at Nokia for their first major push into the Windows Phone world. Well today they blew the lid off of their plans and announced the gory details of their first Windows...

John Esposito10/26/11
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Tips and tricks: HTML5 video and audio on iOS

Switching from the business to the nuts-and-bolts of HTML5:One of the appeals of HTML5 is, of course, its ability to run comfortably on mobile platforms. But some innate features of a mobile device, even one that supports HTML5 fully, can get in the way.For...

Greg Duncan10/26/11
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Connecting your WinPhone 7 app to an ASP.NET Razor page with a little REST and JSON

"In this tutorial you will learn how ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor syntax can be used to build a RESTful web service that is capable of delivering weather forecast data to a Windows Phone 7 application. We will be using WebMatrix, a lightweight tool...

Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
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Windows Phone Tombstoning with PhoneGap and Knockout.js

You may have heard that PhoneGap recently added support for Windows Phone 7 (WP7), which means that PhoneGap can now be used it to develop HTML5-based applications for that platform as well. This week we have been treated to a unique tutorial on Tombstoning...

John Esposito10/25/11
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Windows Phone Mango database support: actually pretty good

Back in June, WindowsPhoneGeek wrote a popular post walking Windows 7.1 developers through creating a simple Local Database application (for storing strings).A few months later, on September 23rd, Microsoft published their own step-by-step HowTo

Simon Jackson10/25/11
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XNA to SilverXNA–Part 2 Getting your XNA project running in Silverlight

In Part 1 I went over some of the things you’ll need to do to get your current XNA project ready for use in the Silverlight XNA integration which I've dubbed as SilverXNA for this tutorial series.

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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Video: Analytics for Windows Phone and Azure Exception Tracking

Learn how to give your users a better experience by tracking exceptions in your app before customers report an issue. Join David Poeschl, lead developer...

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 1.3.1 Release

The Windows Azure toolkit that provides support for developing cloud services and Azure-connecting Windows Phone Apps was updated today. Let's get right to the new features:

Den Delimarsky10/24/11
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Microsoft Idea Week for student developers

For the students who are currently looking to develop applications for Windows Phone, Microsoft kicked off the Idea Week - an event that lets any student over 18 years old to be able to win a $50 gift card by simply submitting their application ideas to...