I've recently made an early holiday gift for myself - Samsung Series 7 Tablet . It looks great, with the excellent LED screen, good performance and I love it. Since I installed Windows 8 Preview bits on it, I couldn't pass an opportunity to learn the...

I've finally published the update for my FeedPoint app for Mango. It's got a few bug fixes as well as Mango specific functionality such as ability to pin live tiles for your feeds which get updates via a background agent. The tiles would get updated...

In the number of the applications that I'd worked on I had to create a screen to display information about a person such as phone, address, email etc... So the screen essentially'd look like the as profile in the people hub: So I have created the...

Would you like to be able to create your scetchflow designs for the Windows Phone 7? Now you can: http://www.uxmagic.com/blog/post/2011/06/08/Sketchflow-for-Windows-Phone-7.aspx

Have you heard about Reactive (Rx) Framework ? If you have been developing for Windows Phone 7, Silverlight or a desktop and had to deal with asynchronous code, the Rx Framework has been a life saver for you. I love it's power and flexibilty. However...

I've updated the FeedPoint app with the a few requested features: - The feed list screen now has the "mark as read" button. You don't need to expand the menu for this. - It now allows sorting the feeds by time they were created, such as "sort by...

A few months ago I spend some time with folks from Avis to help them to get started on the development for Windows Phone 7. Their app has recently been published on the marketplace and has already gathered a very good reviews from the users.

Here's some useful information from the documentation team: The recent release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update includes bug fixes, a new emulator, and utilities. Alongside the release of the tools we have also published an...

When developing the FeedPoint app I needed to encrypt the user credentials in order to store them in the isolated storage. So, I used AesManaged class to encrypt and decrypt the data. As a password key, I've decied to use the anonymous ID that we can...

It's time for a traditional most popular posts of 2010: Creating a Splash Screen with a progress bar for WP7 applications. Creating Scrollable TextBlock for WP7 Creating Progress Dialog for WP7. Implementing Picker Box functionality...

The feed reader app that I've been talking about in my previous posts has been published on the marketplace: http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=ec451fcf-7b10-e011-9264-00237de2db9e I've decided not to make it a free app (it just...

The feed reader app that I described in my previous post is ready to for beta testing. So if you own a developer unlocked Window Phone 7, have Google Reader account and willing to beta test the app (I named it MY FEEDER) send me email at alex.yakhnin...

I don't know how about you, but I love the Outlook app on the Windows Phone 7. I like its simplicity, readability, ability to quickly triage the email, etc... I also read feeds every day using the Google Reader on the web. I've been looking through a...

The Windows Phone 7 doesn't sync the contacts from the Outlook without a connection to the Exchachge server. I've seen a few customers asking about the ways to be able to do it. This KB article outlines the way you could do it: http://support.microsoft...

As you already know, the SL Toolkit team has recently released the update to the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit. This update includes a few controls that I developed in order to fill up the gap - ListPicker and PickerBox controls. So I would recommend...

The Silverlight Toolkit team has just published the new release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit . The update includes the following goodings: AutoCompleteBox (fully themed for Metro) ListPicker (Works as a ListPicker for <5 items...

The OData client library as well as its source are available for download from the codeplex . The download also includes the sample app utlilizing the Northwind database.

The full version of the book: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold is available for download .

The Sync Framework 4.0 (they jumped over the v3) October CTP is available for download. This framework is built on a top a standard protocol - OData and implements an "assymetric" syncing - meaning that most of the synchronization logic will be running...

Kevin , from Clarity has started a blog post series on the tips when developing WP7 applications. Hist first post dives into the nitty gritty details on how to improve performance of your applications. Must read!.

I've made some refactoring to the Progress Dialog code: First of all I changed the name. Now it's ProgressIndicator. Second, this class is now a custom control derived from ContentControl . And last, I twicked the styles and the code so it matches...

When creating Windows Phone 7 applications we'll inevitably encounter the situation when a certain procedure takes some time to complete. In this cases it's a good practice to show a progress indicator to the user. The UI Design and Interaction Guide...

The Windows Phone Training Kit has been updated with the RTM bits. It's gotten even bigger with 5 new labs: Using Silverlight Map Control and Bing Services Building Silverlight Applications Using Panorama and Pivot Controls Catapult Wars...

Today I am going to show you how you can customize the Picker Box dialog to display a color picking dialog similar to the one that you see in the Settings\theme applet in the emulator instead of just a list of strings: In order to be able to...

The WPDT has gone gold and available for download: Windows Phone Developer Tools The tools include the Panorama, Pivot and Bing Map control. Also the team has released the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit which includes the controls and...