In the run up to the launch of Windows Phone 7, we did a lot of work with customers building early applications to help them bring their app to market for launch and to provide guidance and assistance in terms of application design and compliance with...

Frame rate counters are available (for Silverlight at least) right out of the box on Windows Phone 7 (in fact they’re enabled by default in the standard VS project templates when a debugger is attached): // Show graphics profiling information while debugging...

Not long ago I posted about using Fiddler to capture the traffic on the Windows Phone 7 emulator . In a comment on that post, Wayde asked if it was possible to capture the traffic on the device (rather than the emulator). With a bit of fiddling I discovered...

Congratulations to IronSun Studios who now have 4 great Windows Phone 7 games in the Marketplace. Check out the gorgeous graphics below. IonBall A breakout style game with 35 levels and 7 boss battles, plus XP based progression ChronoX A 'Manic Miner...

Looks like I’ll be presenting on the Tech Days Online Conference “Build an app for that” on 20th January 2011. It’s an online conference featuring demo-rich sessions on building applications for the browser, Windows 7, and Windows Phone 7. The online...

A popular poll with well over 1000 responses but I wonder if someone hijacked it this time around? I know it was in an issue with a feature article on F# but F# as the 2nd most popular language choice? And VB beaten into 4th place by IronPython and F#...

I thought it would be fun this time around to try and find out what people’s first experience of computing was. I have no doubt that I’ve missed off many machines I could have included so, as a one-off special offer, I’m prepared to add things to the...

This week's feature article is written by Colin Eberhardt and tackles the issue of sharing code between Silverlight, WPF and Silverlight for Windows Phone. It’s an issue that often comes up in conversation and it’s great to see Colin describe a practical...

I got an email recently asking about resizing images in Silverlight on WP7. Specifically, the need to reduce the size of an image prior to uploading (presumably full camera captured resolution isn’t required – reduction saves both upload time and cost...

Not exactly news this one, as apparently it’s been around since 15/10 but I had call to do some http traffic inspection on the emulator on a couple of occasions recently. Normally I’d turn to my old friend Fiddler but I’d read somewhere that it couldn...