Lots of things are tough to do in 30 days. Having a baby, building a skyscraper, shooting a movie. One thing that’s dead easy though? Creating a Windows Phone application. To that end, we’ve launched a new campaign designed to help you be successful doing...

What's a Windows Phone Garage? A free, full day event being designed to help developers/designers build Windows Phone applications. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or just getting started with .NET development this full-day event is for you. Not sure...

The industrious developer community over in Alabama has just announced their 9th code camp, taking place this coming March 10th in Troy. If you want a fantastic day of free training, networking with some great folks, and a lot of geek fun, make plans...

If you have been wanting in-depth in-person training on ASP.NET MVC3, HTML5 and jQuery in Atlanta , check out Shawn Wildermuth ’s upcoming class on building applications on the Microsoft web platform. Here is the outline for the class: This workshop is...

Windows Phone has a unique and very handy way of providing multiple entry points into your application. This is done through the use of one or more Live Tiles. The start screen on Windows Phone is comprised of tiles that represent many things – applications...

This morning the PhoneGap community announced their version 1.3 release! This release is special because it’s the first one to include support for Windows Phone. And not just a little support, but all the main PhoneGap features. For those of you with...

One of the downsides of finding videos and articles on the Web is that they can get out of date (to varying degrees) over time. So it’s always exciting to me when fresh material comes around, especially in conjunction with new announcements and...

“So two applications walk into a bar…” One of the user interface constructs that’s unique to Windows Phone is the Application Bar. The App Bar (as we affectionately call it) gives users a standard place to find buttons for commonly used tasks within an...

In this tip, I’m going to show you how to send an SMS message from PhoneGap on Windows Phone using the SMSCompose member of the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks namespace. There are a lot of useful launchers and choosers in that namespace, and I’ll be writing about...

(This post is part of my series PhoneGap on Windows Phone 7 tips .) When you are creating integration points between your PhoneGap HTML5 application and the Silverlight hosting application, there are a few ways you can go about crossing the gap (pun intended...

Today’s PhoneGap on Windows Phone 7 tip involves handling orientation changes. This means when a user rotates their phone from portrait to landscape, the content should rotate as well. Not only that, in some scenarios elements on the screen should...

A few months ago, Microsoft a nnounced support for PhoneGap on Windows Phone Mango. This announcement seems to have flown under the radar, because it hits a (currently) small intersection, developers who know HTML5 and developers who want to target Windows...

Thanks to all who came out to last week’s Atlanta .NET user group meeting. Although we were moved a week back due to Halloween, I'll pretend it was some kind of super Daylight Saving time adjustment instead. (grin>. In any case, here are resources...

Yet another great sounding conference is headed to Atlanta. This one is WebVisions and it explores the future of the Web and mobile design, technology, user experience and business strategy. After 11 years in Portland, the show is bringing its Indie/DIY...

In addition to the Microsoft led Windows Phone camps that are happening on the east coast, some industrious folks in Birmingham have put together one for folks in Alabama to get up to speed on Windows Phone development, learn about the Mango release,...

A Web Afternoon is a mini event intended to inspire and educate people who love the web. It’s being put on by the leaders of the Atlanta Web Design Group. Think TED, but for the web. Both speakers and attendees will be people from a variety of disciplines...

At the Windows Phone camps that I’ve been presenting at around the east region, I’ve been showing how to use trial mode to help increase sales by giving users a way to try your application before they commit to buying it. Here are some suggestions to...

Here’s a great contest for those of you thinking about publishing Windows Phone applications that take advantage of the new Mango features. For every new Mango app you publish, you’ll receive 1 entry into a raffle for a Samsung Series 7 slate PC. Publish...

As many of you are aware, Microsoft has been holding conferences known as MIX in Vegas for several years. MIX features sessions and speakers from the cutting edge of the design and development world. The local community in Atlanta has channeled the excitement...

The Microsoft HTML5 Web Camps are free, full-day events to help you get up to speed with HTML5 and related web standards. Over the course of four sessions, you’ll learn about the next wave of web standards including HTML5 , CSS3 , ECMAScript5 , SVG ,...

Are you a college student out of ideas on how to spend your summer? Learn how to build a Windows Phone app (the tools are all free ), publish it in the marketplace, and win prizes! For full details check out http://www.wpstudentapp.com/

Have you ever played Rock, Paper, Scissors? Then you already know how to play the game. Now’s your chance to code your own player “bot” and test your skills online against players from seven countries. The Grand Prize tournament winner will take home...

If you have been working with the Windows Phone Developer Tools for Mango, no doubt you have played around with the emulator some. And as good as that emulator is for testing your apps, what you’ve really been wanting is a way to test your apps on a real...

After a bit of a dry spell, the Atlanta Code Camp is back, and it’s bigger than ever! Code Camp is a free event where speakers from the community share their knowledge and expertise with local developers. This year’s Code Camp features 11 tracks with...

Two great community guys – Chris Eargle and Chris Williams - are setting up community led Windows Phone Garage events next week in Columbia and Greenville. Remember, at a Windows Phone Garage you get instruction on the basics of creating Windows Phone...