Posted in Windows Phone, WP7 on Oct 4th, 2010
You can customize the image shown in your Windows Phone 7 Tile. All you need to do is change the BackgroundImageURI value in the WMAppManifest.xml file. <Tokens> <PrimaryToken TokenID="MyAppToken" TaskName="_default"> <TemplateType5> <BackgroundImageURI IsRelative="true" IsResource="false"> /Images/Coins/tileImage.png</BackgroundImageURI> You can also change this value in the Visual Studio 2010 Property page. Figure 1: Change Background Image in Property [...]
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Posted in Windows Phone, WP7 on Oct 4th, 2010
It’s easy to embed information inside your assembly. Just add it to the assemblyInfo.cs/assemblyInfo.vb file or use the Visual Studio properties window. Reading the AssemblyInfo data When you want to read this information from a Silverlight/WindowsPhone assembly you can call on the Assembly class to get the desired data. You can use the GetExecutingAssembly method [...]
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Posted in Windows Phone, WP7 on Sep 30th, 2010
Windows Phone 7, like most modern touch screen phones, has an on screen keyboard. It’s known as the Software Input panel (SIP) and it is a virtual keyboard that appears when a text-input control such as a TextBox gets the input focus. There are 50+ keyboards configurations available. Figure 1 shows the default keyboard layout. [...]
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Posted in Silverlight, Win 7, Windows Phone on Sep 18th, 2010
The all-in-one installer Here’s a story you know very well. Microsoft creates a new version of a popular framework. Throughout the beta cycle they release versions of the tools and SDKs. Finally the day comes when they release the final version and we start installing the bits on our computers. The best solution for us [...]
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Posted in Windows Phone, WP7 on Aug 20th, 2010
Let’s be frank, it doesn’t take much to double the number of Windows 7 applications available on the market place. Up till today us only been six apps on the store. The good news is Microsoft has started testing the deployment of apps to the store and it appears to be working. Now there’s a [...]
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Posted in Games, Windows Phone, WP7 on Aug 20th, 2010
Continuing with my game theme for the week here’s a little tidbit about a great looking, 3-D puzzle game. SouthEnd Interactive has just announced that they will have their cute iomilo game available when the Windows Phone 7 is launched this fall. Now you can carry ilomilo with you in your pocket and play it [...]
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Posted in Windows Phone, WP7 on Aug 17th, 2010
What happens when you put three interviewers, one studio audience and a guest on a podcast? You might think it was total mayhem. but really, it was a just a lot of fun. This week I was a guest on the Sparkling Client podcast. They had me on to talk about Windows Phone 7 hardware [...]
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Posted in Windows Phone, WP7 on Aug 16th, 2010
A few days ago I wrote about the new game studio opening at Microsoft. I’ve argued for years that the way to get platform adoption is to provide compelling applications for users. Games, games games. Today the XBOX team announced a huge number of XBOX titles intended to be ready for the WP7 launch in [...]
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Posted in Windows Phone, WP7 on Aug 11th, 2010
It’s taken 10 years, but Microsoft is finally getting serious about phone development. They’ve thrown out the old model and embraced the multi-touch smart systems that Android and iPhone have popularized. They’re thinking hard about the social aspects of the device. They hired a ton of design and UX people and are working to make [...]
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Posted in Windows Phone on Apr 14th, 2010
The Windows Phone 7 Series specification mandates that certain hardware be present on all hardware. Camera No, this is not the camera on the phone. But we can wish can’t we? The phone must contain a 5-megapixel camera and accompanying flash. Developers can mark their phone applications as a Photo aware application. I believe [...]
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