Kevin Ashley's Blog at Microsoft

If you are a developer, or just curious about Windows Phone platform, we have a series of Phone Camps in Costa Mesa, Phoenix, Denver, Santa Monica, San Diego, San Francisco, Redmond and Portland. I’ll be speaking at Costa Mesa, Denver, San Francisco and...

This cheat sheet lists more advanced tools, toolkits and controls beyond the standard Mango SDK 7.1, such as NuGet, Silverlight Toolkit, MVVM Light, Catel, Phone7.Fx, Coding4Fun and others. I just needed one place to stick them all to, and I think this...

One of the most important (and unique!) features of Windows Phone 7.5 is live tiles. Live tiles make Windows Phone truly recognizable, even if you see it from 10 meters away in a store. I created this cheat sheet to help you quickly add live tile features...

Download Code Samples This post was originally published on my main blog: http://kevinashley.com This is Part 1 of my Windows Phone connectivity series. Check out Part 2 on how to connect to Wordpress using JSON. Many of us use Wordpress: it's an excellent...

This post was originally published on my main blog: http://kevinashley.com Download Code Samples This is the Part 2 of connectivity posts for Windows Phone. In Part 1 we discussed how to connect a Windows Phone app to Wordpress using the blog’s built...

See my original post at http://kevinashley.com There’s little doubt that MVVM pattern makes your life as a developer a lot easier. There’re several MVVM frameworks for Windows Phone that make it happen: MVVM Light  http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com Caliburn...

I feel like giving out something to the community today. And there’s one thing I’ve been missing: a set of vector graphics for Metro UI, and in particular, “I love Windows Phone” piece. Several people asked me about it, so I created one in SVG, using...