I’d never given this any thought until I had to do a hard reset on my HTC Trophy just before we made available Beta 2 of the Mango OS . Of course I lost my apps. I found myself scratching my head trying to remember all the apps I had installed. Of course...

[Cross posted from the MSDN UK Team Blog ] Nice idea this one – ask the people who created specific Mango features to talk about them. Each video is very short – perhaps a couple of minutes – but gives you a succinct overview of features such as: Email...

Or, more correctly, it has been release to manufacturing (RTM’d) – ie the development team have signed off the final build and that build is now in the hands of handset manufacturers and mobile operators. The final build number is 7720 (those of you running...

[This post was cross-posted from the UK MSDN Team Blog ] If you’re a Windows Phone developer, the scheduled App Hub outage last Monday probably piqued your interest, along with a number of new features you may have noticed that started to roll out during...

You’ll have noticed we’ve made some improvements to App Hub recently. And if, like me, you’ve tried to submit an app to Marketplace since 18th July you may have encountered an error relating to supported languages. My first attempt at submitting a new...

Having been berated on Twitter this morning for failing to be intimately familiar with the symbols on my status bar (specifically I didn’t recognise the vibrate mode symbol), I thought I’d clear things up by publishing my understanding of what they mean...

If you have a Windows Phone and you’re on Orange, you’ll hopefully have heard that they’re celebrating the launch of the “Orange Selects” Marketplace with a free app every day for the whole of July. Today for example, you could enjoy Birdsong , the excellent...

Oops – somehow this one slipped through the net. Brandon talks about Marketplace, recent and future improvements and how to maximise your opportunity by building apps customers really want. View this video as a WMV Direct...

Brennon Williams takes a look at user-centred design, Expression Blend, inspiration, SketchFlow and rapid prototyping, and design templates for Windows Phone whilst at the same time attempting a world-record for the number of libellous statements referring...

In this session, Andy Wigley takes a look at the new local database features in Windows Phone Mango. Specifically SQL Server CE, how to deploy databases, how to access them and even how to update the database schema. Andy also explores the new APIs for...

Jaime Rodriguez explores some of the new features in Mango by taking an existing application and updating it with local storage, background transfers, reminders, Live Tiles local API etc etc View this video as a WMV Direct...

Oren takes us on a tour of some of the upcoming Silverlight features in the Mango release of Windows Phone; inherited features from Silverlight 4, performance, controls, networking, media and graphics etc View this video as a...

Brandon Watson takes us on a tour of the upcoming release of Windows Phone “Mango” with a strong focus on developer features including multi-tasking, framework enhancements, XNA & Silverlight integration, access to phone capabilities, performance...

In this session Ian Blackburn talks about Love Clean Streets and its use of platform features and Windows Azure services to create a more rewarding and engaging experience for users. View this video as a WMV Direct link...

The VerySoftware team share their experiences in building successful applications for Windows Phone 7. Using a Tech.Days sample application the guys take us through their learnings and offer some tips and tricks as well as stressing the importance of...

Rich Griffin and Ollie Riches explore the use of data in a real-world application and how libraries such as wp7contrib can do some of the heavy-lifting for you. View this video as a WMV Direct link to the video on the...

In this session, Andy Wigley looks at accessing, storing and manipulating data in mobile applications. From local storage to accessing data in the cloud, persistence formats, databases and data presentation, Andy manages to cram a lot of practical information...

In this session, Oren Nachman walks through some common performance pitfalls on Windows Phone (and mobile platforms in general) and offers guidance and advice on how to avoid them and how to get to the root of the problem if you do run into problems....

In this session, Gergely Orosz talks about Cocktail Flow and some of the lessons they learned in building it including the importance of “creating experiences” rather than “building applications” and knowing when to diverge from the guidance. ...

It seems like an age since “Tech.Days Live” when we had two full days of Windows Phone sessions. All the sessions were recorded and they’re published on the Tech.Days website. To make things really easy I’m going to post the ones relating to developing...

Yes, you can now get SketchFlow templates for Windows Phone (or sketchy styles as they’re known) and I thought I’d have a play. (You must have a version of Blend 4 with SketchFlow enabled for this to work eg it wont work with the free version of Expression...

I’m sure most of you reading this will already know we released Beta 2 of the developer tools for Windows Phone Mango last week. In addition, if you’re a registered AppHub developer, you’ll be able to update a developer-unlocked Windows Phone 7 (retail...