Today, it was announced on the Windows Phone blog that the final version of the Windows Phone developer tools will be released on Sept 16. This release will have some minor breaking changes from the beta tools, so apps will need to be recompiled using...

Today, I'll write about creating a simple app that plays media using the MediaElement control, uses the ApplicationBar control for the media controls, and also allows use of the MediaPlayerLauncher. The application bar icons used can be downloaded...

Launchers and Choosers are the set of APIs that allow applications indirect access to phone features, such as taking photos with the camera, launching one of the built-in applications, etc. The difference between Launchers and Choosers is that Launchers...

The ProgressBar control in Windows Phone today looks beautiful in indeterminate mode, with the animating dots. But it comes at a cost to performance - the dots stop animating when the UI thread is busy such as when loading a large image. I was updating...

Today, I'll write about three new controls in Windows Phone Applications - the Map, Pivot and Panorama controls. These controls should be in the next release of the free developer tools as they didn't make the beta. The Silverlight Bing Map control...

Unlike desktop applications which use a keyboard and mouse, Windows Phone applications use touch screen gestures for input. The most common gesture is the Tap, which is the same as a Click and uses the Click event handler. Today, I'll be writing about...

Applications may want to performs actions with certain timing, or tick intervals. One example is a turn-based game like a card game where each computer player takes some time to play a turn. An example which will be shown below is a slideshow application...

Continuing from yesterday's introduction to Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 , today I'll be writing about the application model for Windows Phone Applications, specifically about navigation and saving state. Navigation In desktop Silverlight...

The NDA on Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 has been lifted for a few months now, but I've been too busy working to get it into a finished product to blog about it previously. But now I hope to spend a few minutes each day sharing some tips and tricks...