Here’s another list of great Windows Phone resources for developers and designer. Lots of goodies here: Windows Phone Consumer site www.windowsphone.com AppHub – Developer Site for Windows Phone http://create.msdn.com Windows Phone YouTube Channel http...

Don't miss this exciting day of C# content. Following the progression of the .Net Framework release schedule, we'll cover some great topics from each version of C#! We'll end the day with a look at some popular "Best Practices" that can also help take...

Get your abstracts ready ! We're kicking things off for MADExpo 2012. Last year we had a great response from the speaker community and we're expecting 2012 to be even better. Abstracts We're interested in all topics for all platforms. We're interested...

A few weeks ago, I did a short blog post on consuming Json from Windows Phone. I posted more as a reference for myself but I have gotten a few emails about it so I figured I would expand on it. Consuming Json is Windows Phone is not hard but it can be...

Yesterday we announce the “beta” availability of the AWS SDK for Windows Phone. You can read all about it here . Getting started with the AWS SDK for Windows Phone: Getting started guide Getting Started video Video walkthrough of the samples provided...

Over the last year I have had the privilege to attend various hack events. I really enjoy getting together with fellow nerds and just hack at code together. I saw this this on email and thought I would share it with everyone. Education · Jump Start Videos...

To celebrate the launch of Seed Philly, the Philadelphia tech community's newest resource, we are throwing down a mobile app challenge in Philly throughout the month of February...join us over 4 weeks to build a Windows Phone app! Your tickets includes...

Earlier I blogged about a new blog series that I am starting this year and will continue over the next few months. The idea is to document the process of creating a real product from start to finish. Since I am not making this a real business venture...

Ok maybe is not a secret at all as I believe it is common knowledge that all developer dreams of striking it big. To come up with the one technology, framework or product that changes the game. Yes, I am being over dramatic but I am sure if we poll 100...

Week #3 of the Rock Paper Azure Challenge ended at 6pm EST on 12/9/2011. That means another five contestants just won $50 Best Buy gift cards! Congratulations to the following players for having the Top 5 bots for Week #3: AmpaT choi Protist RockMeister...

You asked for it and now you got it. Last year my teammates Brian, Peter and Jim created an awesome coding game for Azure called Rock Paper Azure Challenge . The idea is was not new but they modified it to work on Azure and it is pretty cool. Actually...

I need to get better at naming my blog posts. Oh well for now lets just stick with this one. When we create mobile app, we just not simply port a web or desktop application to a mobile device, we should totally redesign and re-architect for mobile. Most...

I will be speaking at the NYC Windows Phone user group on December 9th. The topic for the day is cross platform mobile development and I will be speaking specific about the design principals that make up the Metro Design Language of Windows Phone 7 ....

I am an outgoing person. Well, at least I like to think I am. When ever I speak to a live audience or meet someone in person, I am not shy at all. Go ahead and ask my three friends. However, for some reason, I tend to be somewhat shy online. I have this...

One of the things I love about my job is that I get the opportunity to help Windows Phone developers be successful in our platform. We are totally committed to the success of every Windows Phone developers. To show this commitment we are constantly doing...

What's a Windows Phone Camp? A free, full day event chock-full of everything you need to know to develop a Windows Phone application. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or just getting started with .NET development this full-day event is for you. Interested...

Interested in developing Windows Phone Apps? Then this hackathon is for you. Join other New York City developers for a day full geeky-ness. We will have Windows Phone experts in house to help you with your App ideas. In addition we will be running short...

December 2, 2011 at 6:00 PM until December 4, 2011 at 5:00 PM (ET) in Rochester, NY http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2352875514/efblike Game Jam Competitor - an all weekend challenge to build the best video game you can in less than 48 hours. Form teams...

The first app I published to the Windows Phone Marketplace was an App for my church. It is a simple app. Goes in an RSS feed or Bible studies and it allows the users to listen to the collection of studies. When I wrote the app any people expressed their...

One of the things I used to hate to do was to create all the images needed to submit your Apps to the Windows Phone Marketplace. You need at least 3 sizes of your App icon. You need: Small mobile app icon - 99 pixels x 99 pixels Large mobile app icon...

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2024949679/efbnen Dev-ing. Mobile. Cloud. APIs. Good food. Awesome prizes. Interested in building your own app? This hackathon will introduce you the the latest cutting edge tools to deploy your own app with a website...

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2024949679/efbnen Dev-ing. Mobile. Cloud. APIs. Good food. Awesome prizes. Interested in building your own app? This hackathon will introduce you the the latest cutting edge tools to deploy your own app with a website backend...

Since Silverlight is one of the frameworks developers can use to create Windows Phone application, there many new Silverlight developer creating awesome app for Windows Phone. Since many of the developers I talk to are new to Silverlight, I get ask some...

Where & When? Microsoft New York 1290 Ave of the Americas, 6th Floor Date: 11/18/2012 8:00a-5:00p REGISTER HERE What's Covered? Building simple silverlight applications is very easy, we have all seen the simple hello world samples that are out there...

This weekend I was feeling crappy so I wrote an Appy . Where I was not really crappy but I wanted to write another app to learn more about the Map control in Windows Phone. I will post about the app some other time but wanted to share this piece of code...