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This years BlackBerry World trade show being held this week, brought the announcement of their new “PlayBook” tablet. That announcement however was dwarfed by Steve Ballmer’s announcement of a new partnership between the software giant and the smartphone giant that would bring Bing to the platform. A deal that wouldn’t normally bring the boss of […]

The update will be made available however it will be on a “per device basis” as not all devices will be capable of receiving the new patch. No word on when the patch will be available for “all” Windows Phone 7 users and while Microsoft has not commented on why the patch is being delayed […]

Introduction The increased use of JavaScript and libraries based on JavaScript (such as ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery) results in a considerable amount of JavaScript being downloaded on the client side. The need for large amounts of JavaScript to be downloaded may result in your website getting a performance penalty for obvious reasons. In such cases […]

Introduction As we saw in an earlier article describing Launchers, the Windows Phone 7 platform does not provide any application direct access to the contacts, send email or take pictures features of the phone. This is done to provide sandboxing. However when applications have a legitimate need for doing so, they can access these features […]

The German Antivirus testing organization AV-Test.org presented their results this week. Microsoft’s antivirus program “Security Essentials” results on its ability to protect users from malware and other security vulnerabilities are out, and it didn’t do well, ranking only 20 out of 22 AV apps tested this quarter.

UI Stencils just released a new and very useful tool to aid Windows Phone 7 developers. The stencil was co-created by the actual Windows Phone 7 development team and it allows developer to quickly and easily mock-up app ideas on paper with ease before they ever sit down in front of their keyboard. The kit […]

While the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 app list pales in comparison to the iPhone, 12,000 is still nothing to shake a stick at and keeping track of those apps just got a little easier for developers who are in the business of porting those apps from one platform to another. Microsoft has just launched a […]

Introduction to System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch There are a number of 3rd party tools that can help you profile your code and gauge things like the execution time, amount of memory consumed, number of loops, and other items useful in refactoring your code for optimal performance. There are even some tools natively available as part of Microsoft Visual […]

At the end of the day, its Microsoft who is to blame, not Samsung. Microsoft, after all, certified the Samsung hardware as being “Windows Phone 7 Compatible” and obviously, something, somewhere was not properly tested. And for a company that is responsible for pushing out updates to millions and millions of computers on regular and […]

For the cost of nothing more then registering with AppMakr, you’ll have everything you need to get started building apps and publishing them to the Windows Phone 7 AppStore. Without ever writing one line of code you’ll be able to create mocks of your app, prototype them and get them to Market for Free. And […]

As you are probably aware, pages in Windows Phone 7/WP7 are created using XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language). Unlike other mobile platforms, the highly structured nature of XAML includes several different controls that provide different layout methods. This is somewhat of a departure from other platforms where controls are placed on screen/page using an absolute […]

Microsoft first released OneNote Mobile this past January. OneNote Mobile, designed for the Apple iOS, Microsoft allows the user to create text-based notes, embed pictures, create lists and other rich notes and sync them to your Web App at office.live.com and OneNote 2010 for Windows. New features also include a easier sign-up process for new […]