I’d been round in circles a few times and had eventually settled on a technique that involved a 2nd drive in the UltraBay slot of my Lenovo W510 to host “expanded” VHDs when @GarryMartin tweeted me to point out there’s a registry setting that controls...

I posted the Day 1 agenda as there was some new information that hasn’t yet been published on the UK Tech.Days website . However for Day 2, things are looking pretty good. We may try and sneak in another Mango session if we can but I can’t confirm that...

When you’re organising an event, things change rapidly. Sometimes it’s just not possible to keep the Tech.Days website 100% in sync so I’ve pasted below a summary of the “Windows Phone – State of the Nation” day (Tuesday 24th May) with all the latest...

I’ve just spotted a great index of recordings of the Windows Phone sessions delivered at MIX11 on create.msdn.com . http://create.msdn.com/en-US/news/watch_MIX11_presentations

If this starts happening whenever you launch the Windows Phone emulator Can I suggest following the advice from Eric Fleck on this thread . Delete the emulator saved state files (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\XDE) Reinstall the January Update Open an elevated...

I keep returning to this issue and this time I think I might have cracked it. Here’s my problem: I have an existing Windows 7 install on a 160GB SSD drive. From time to time I’d like to create a “branch” to install software that either [a] I will only...

If you’re building Windows Phone apps and you’ve not heard about “ Spring Cleaning ” then take a couple of minutes the review that link. Essentially, in May and June you have a chance to get your app featured in Marketplace but your app must be published...

If, like me, you weren’t lucky enough to be at MIX this year, chances are you’ve got a bit of catching up to do watching session videos . I always dread trying to download videos over my lousy broadband connection but this year, Ben mentioned he’d used...

If you’re from an iPhone / iOS background and you’re looking at Windows Phone 7 for the first time, there are some useful resources on http://windowsphone.interoperabilitybridges.com/ including an API Mapping Tool and a WP7 guide for iPhone Developers...

In my last post , I talked about the risks of failing to adapt your app to the selected user theme with the consequence, in that particular case was failing Marketplace certification. There are other good reasons to adapt to the selected theme of course...

I’d been helping someone out with a Windows Phone 7 application. Like many other apps, the app retrieved data from a webservice. If there was an issue retrieving data, a message would be displayed to the user which, in XAML looked like a bit like this...