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Den Delimarsky02/15/11
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Windows Phone 7 with multitasking - coming soon

It was revealed today by Joe Belfiore, vice president and director of Windows Phone Program Management at Microsoft, that Windows Phone 7 will finally support multitasking.

Axel Rauschmayer02/14/11
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Nokia and Microsoft: a few thoughts

By now, you have probably heard the news: In an effort to turn around its decline, Nokia will partner with Microsoft and mostly go Windows Phone 7 (WP7) in the future. This post contains my thoughts on this.

Per Ola Sæther02/14/11
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How to use WCF services to access SQL Azure Database from Windows Phone 7 app – Part 1

This is part one in a series of four and will step by step explain how to use WCF services to access SQL Azure Database from Windows Phone 7 app. As an example I will develop a Windows Phone app where the user can create an account and later on log in to...

Axel Rauschmayer02/11/11
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HP’s new WebOS devices: the highlights

HP announced three new WebOS devices: The cell phones Pre 3 and Veer and the tablet TouchPad.

Den Delimarsky02/11/11
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Nokia partners with Microsoft for Windows Phone 7

It was announced today that Nokia will partner with Microsoft to use the Windows Phone 7 OS software as the foundation for their mobile ecosystem, which ultimately means that Nokia gives up on maintaining Symbian. It is certainly a big step for Microsoft...

Den Delimarsky02/11/11
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Some curious facts about the Windows Phone 7 OS - from the emulator console

There is an interesting post by Nick Randolph that shows how to display the console tied to the Windows Phone 7 emulator. It is a tool that is not officially documented by Microsoft but nonetheless provides some insight as to how the mobile system works....

Peter Friese02/11/11
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Three reasons why I think the HP TouchPad will rock the tablet market

Yesterday, HP introduced the Touchpad, an iPad-like tablet device that is programmed with web technologies. While this certainly isn't the first attempt of a vendor to compete with Apple on the tablet market, I am convinced the TouchPad is a true...

Senthil Kumar02/10/11
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Why the Nokia and Windows Phone 7 combination will succeed

Looks like the news on the Nok

Den Delimarsky02/10/11
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Introducing Coding4Fun toolkit for Windows Phone 7 - Part 2

In this part I am going to talk about the InputPrompt class. It is not something new for Windows Phone 7, since XNA already has an InputBox implementation. However, this is a bit more customizable.

Den Delimarsky02/09/11
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Introducing Coding4Fun toolkit for Windows Phone 7 - Part 1

As a side project, Coding4Fun released a toolkit for Windows Phone 7 developers. It is a set of extensions (just like the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7) - a number of controls and utilities that can make the development process easier and in some...

Alessandro Giorgetti02/09/11
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WP7 - Understanding Serialization

While I was learning and writing my first WP7 application I realized that understanding the serialization mechanism is vital if you want to write a WP7 application. You will probably end up using it when persisting data to the isolated storage and...

Senthil Kumar02/09/11
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Video Training – Windows Phone 7 Development series for Android Developers

MSDev has released the new videos on Windows Phone 7 for Android Developers which helps the Android developers to kick start the Windows Phone 7 Development . The series includes 8 Videos and is presented by Nancy Strickland and Bill Lodin .

Senthil Kumar02/08/11
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Windows Phone 7 Books for starting the Development

Here are some of the Books that i found were available in the amazon.com. The Number of Books / resources are plenty for starting with the Windows Phone .

Den Delimarsky02/08/11
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4 important things to have in your Windows Phone 7 app

There are some things when it comes to Windows Phone 7 application development that are less common in the applications that are distributed in the Marketplace. I am somewhat surprised these aren't actively used even though the user experience could be...

Den Delimarsky02/04/11
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January 2011 Update for Windows Phone 7 dev tools - New Emulator & Utilities

The long awaited update for the official developer tools is out. And although the actual update for the phone itself is not out, you can already see what the new system will carry - copy and paste functionality. One interesting thing is that you won't be able...