Articles having tag: WP7

Broken Windows Phone Marketplace

Recently the Windows Phone Developer Team posted an article about how App Insights work and specificallyhow Free, Top, and New apps work. It's all accurate, a good read, and (to an extent) will help you improve your app's ranking in the Marketplace...

The Manifold Blunders of Xaml–Part 1: Version and Platform Hell

By .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF

I started work with “Xaml-based” platforms in the pre-Beta days of WPF, so I’ve been working with this technology longer than most. Back then I was utterly awed and inspired by it’s capabilities. Today I’m frustrated and Read More......(read...

Farseer tutorial for the absolute beginners

By Bil Simser

This post is inspired (and somewhat a direct copy) of a couple of postsEmanuele Feronatowrote back in 2009about Box2D (his tutorial was ActionScript 3 based for Box2D, this is C# XNA for theFarseer Physics Engine).Here's what we're building:What is...

Find all the Microsoft Developer downloads (upcoming tech)

By XAML Wonderland

This is not breaking news by any means. We all are aware of how hard it is to keep up with new tech coming out of the Redmond. Here’s a few links to some of the more important APIs coming soon. (feel free to speculate on Microsoft release...

Get Juiced with me and 10,000 friends at Prairie Dev Con West

By Bil Simser

I"m happy to say thatPrairie Dev Con West 2012is almost upon us. In just over a week geeks from the five corners of the planet will get together and talk about D'Arcy Lussier's hair and hope that the Mad Mexican doesn't crash their session.For...

The Big Dummies Guide for Windows Phone Developer Resources

By Bil Simser

Windows Phone apps are growing in popularity as does the50,00060,000 apps in the marketplace today. Microsoft has done a great job at putting togethersome resourcesfor developers includingfull documentation. When you first land onApp Hubthere's all kind...

Caliburn Micro: More About Events and Parameters (part 3)

Caliburn Micro is a fantastic MVVM framework for XAML developers (WPF, Silverlight, WP7) and in this post more advanced eventing with parameters is discussed. This is the third post in a series (older posts linked to in the article) but it is designed for developers...

Boo-yah!!! Caliburn.Micro v1.3 RTW is Here

By .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF

I’m extremely pleased to announce the release of Caliburn.Micro v1.3 . This is a great release with many bug fixes and several API improvements. We also support several new platforms. Here’s the highlights: Support for WP7 Mango Support for Read...

Getting started with Caliburn Micro - Databinding & Events

The second part in the series from Mindscape about getting started with Caliburn Micro to build better WPF, Silverlight and WP7 applications. This part looks at how Caliburn Micro uses convention driven event and binding wire ups to save time. A must read for...