As I continue futzing around with the new 7.1.1 SDK for Windows Phone Technology Preview , I stumbled upon an interesting feature. Key to 7.1.1 Tech Preview are the dual emulators in 256mb and 512mb flavors. The emulator in the 7.1 SDK can ONLY be...

#FLDEV SCENE - PICK OF THE FISHFRY Kinect and Windows Phone Playing Together - Kevin Wolf (Tampa) - http://new.efficientcoder.net/2012/02/kinect-and-windows-phone-playing.html Imperium RPG Game by NeuralNet (Orlando) - wp7designcorner WindowsObserver...

Some of you might have started playing with the new 7.1.1 SDK for Windows Phone community technology preview . The biggie feature is a 256 megabyte emulator to represent the 256 memory phones coming out soon. The emulator in the 7.1 SDK can only be run...

Random surfing goodness I found worth a deep read lately. Enjoy. #FLDEV SCENE - PICK OF THE FISHFRY Southern Most Developer Group Meeting - Key West via @bytemaster NHL Pro 12 via NeuralNet Zombie Apocalype via beatonpath - a product of @billreiss...

Cats n dogs living together. Yes Virginia, we do make our stuff work with other platforms. As a Windows Phone / Windows client type I've always cringed when esteemed Azure experts like Brian Hitney bring up the Azure SDKs for iOS and Android . Makes...

On September 27, 2011, we announced the expansion of the Advertising SDK to a number of new markets . Today we are happy to announce, effective immediately , (hearing the updates for market selection may not be fully in there yet) the expansion of our...

FLADEV SCENE - PICK OF THE FISHFRY NBA Pro '12 via Neuralnet of Orlando - http://wp7designcorner.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/nba-pro-12-has-arrived-to-the-wp7-marketplace/ Daily Calories Calculator by Tampa's Paul Beaton - http://www.windowsphone.com/en...

Recently I was working on my latest cut of dfRandomWinner and I noted that the behavior of InputScope="Digit" changed from Windows Phone 7.0 to Windows Phone "Mango". I couldn't actually find much documentation on the InputScope changes. Ok, now I'm curious...

Your Windows Phone App Has Crashed? Or has it? How do you really know? And what kind of clues can you get to why it crashed? Crash Reporting was just added to the Windows Phone App Hub recently. With Crash Reporting you can see how many of your apps...

Checking in with some local pride here. When the school four blocks from my old house in the 'burg takes down a world-wide Microsoft competition, I've got to blog it. Note I had nothing to do with Louis Zulli and his earning this award, but he just made...

Microsoft just hosted the very first W3C HTML5 Conference in Redmond, with the participation of W3C, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Opera, Nokia, Amazon and several other industry and community leaders. This is a great picture for cross boundary participation...

Glen Gordon has begun a blog series on tips and tricks to get your HTML5 site running on windows Phone using Phone Gap . PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and...

FLADEV SCENE - PICK OF THE FISHFRY FLA Resident Gary Davis's TIVO Remote - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/s?appid=6a96de72-0338-4b60-ad1d-1c18cb365f27 NeuralNet's DJ Mix - http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/814ffa1a-daae-4049-8a0a-b1e66169d61f...

Christopher Bennage over in the PNP group (and esteemed developer originating from the Florida dotneterati) has asked for an assist. The PNP group is preparing to launch a project delivering guidance about HTML5 development for mobile. PNP is looking...

Windows Phone 7.1 SDK (mango) introduces the DeviceStatus class to the programmer. Microsoft.Phone.Info.DeviceStatus was introduced to replaced the deprecated DeviceExtendedProperties class from Windows Phone 7.0. DeviceStatus is meant to provide an easier...

FLADEV SCENE - PICK OF THE FISHFRY FLA Resident Gary Davis's TIVO Remote - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/s?appid=6a96de72-0338-4b60-ad1d-1c18cb365f27 NeuralNet's DJ Mix - http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/814ffa1a-daae-4049-8a0a-b1e66169d61f...

What’s a GiveCamp? GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where technology professionals – including designers, developers and database administrators as well as marketers and web strategists donate their time and unique talents to provide software...

FLADEV SCENE - PICK OF THE FISHFRY Jason Milgram - Windows Phone Developer Hero of the Week for TrackMyShots - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2011/08/30/jason-milgram-of-south-florida-windows-phone-developer-hero-of-the-week-trackmyshots.aspx...

What’s a Windows Phone Camp? For those who went to our "Windows Phone Garage" series last year, its one of those. For those new to the scene, its a free, full day event chocked full of everything you need to know to develop a Windows Phone application...

.toolbox offer resources, practical techniques, tips, and tricks about with Design Techniques in applications using Microsoft tools. The .toolbox team just updated the tutorial list for Windows Phone to include some great new SketchFlow content. SketchFlow...

Living in Tampa we're surrounded by Heroes. Folks from MacDill in South Tampa are tough enough, but CENTCOM and SOCOM have significant presences. I heard it said once, "There be giants here, and they're down at MacDill". So it makes it tough to call devs...

Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) brings us sockets as another means for us to use data from the Internet. MSDN provides two pretty sweet samples in the UDP and TCP how-to samples . Basically each sample socket connects to the TCP/IP Simple Services Echo and...

On day 2 of the recent Front End Design Conference in St Petersburg, FL, I was privileged to present "Metro UI". Windows Phone has been a solid example of Metro UI in action, but I intentionally avoided doing a pure phone focused session. Probably a good...

Jacksonville .NET Code Camp is coming up on Saturday, August 27th. As a special treat, we've got an 'event inside an event'. Chris G. Williams ( @chrisgwilliams ) is making the roadtrip down from Greenville, South Carolina, to run a XNA Gaming Oriented...

The Kinect SDK has just released a Beta1 Refresh. The update applies a number of driver enhancements including stability fixes to prevent crashes, including those that appear when a PC goes into sleep mode. The update also supplies runtime enhancements...