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...

Some time ago, at a Windows Phone User Group meeting in Cardiff, I saw Trevor Daniel talk about his application TaxiRoute . It’s an interesting concept – and one we can all relate to – how much is a taxi going to cost me from A to B? (Or how much should...

On the off chance you haven’t heard, we shipped the first beta of the next release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools last week . The Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta allows you to target both the next version of Windows Phone (Mango) as well...

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...