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Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.

Over the weekend of 15/16th June we’ll be running an exclusive 2 day event designed to help you get...

Date: 05/22/2012

If you’ve recently attended one of our Windows 8 Events or Windows 8 Camps (London, Edinburgh,...

Date: 05/21/2012

The Appvertise campaign from Windows Phone and Nokia is a great opportunity to have your Windows...

Date: 05/11/2012

Today we also announced the availability of a beta of the much anticipated Skype app for Windows...

Date: 02/27/2012

Hot off the press from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the news that Windows Phone will be...

Date: 02/27/2012

We have another couple of free Windows Phone events coming up – one in London and one in Bristol....

Date: 01/10/2012

I asked San Shepherd, co-founder of Escapist Games Ltd, a few questions about Star Chart, a high...

Date: 12/07/2011

In my post last week I talked about the Advertising SDK and using the AdControl in our applications...

Date: 12/05/2011

“It was with a sense of trepidation that I blogged a request for people who might like to help...

Date: 09/22/2011

Just a quick plug for our upcoming online conference (Wednesday 5th October) which is themed “Design...

Date: 09/20/2011

The Windows Phone “Mango” Jump Start Training with Rob Miles and Andy Wigley that took place on...

Date: 09/09/2011

Those fabulous (and generous) guys over at Appa Mundi have created a free GUI version of the...

Date: 09/01/2011

Building on the success of the original Windows Phone 7 Jump Start training, the dynamic duo* will...

Date: 08/19/2011

Assuming you’ve published Windows Phone applications to the Marketplace, you’re probably wondering...

Date: 08/19/2011

I’d never given this any thought until I had to do a hard reset on my HTC Trophy just before we made...

Date: 07/29/2011

[Cross posted from the MSDN UK Team Blog] Nice idea this one – ask the people who created specific...

Date: 07/28/2011

Or, more correctly, it has been release to manufacturing (RTM’d) – ie the development team have...

Date: 07/27/2011

You’ll have noticed we’ve made some improvements to App Hub recently. And if, like me, you’ve tried...

Date: 07/22/2011

Having been berated on Twitter this morning for failing to be intimately familiar with the symbols...

Date: 07/15/2011

If you have a Windows Phone and you’re on Orange, you’ll hopefully have heard that they’re...

Date: 07/14/2011

Oops – somehow this one slipped through the net. Brandon talks about Marketplace, recent and future...

Date: 07/13/2011

Brennon Williams takes a look at user-centred design, Expression Blend, inspiration, SketchFlow and...

Date: 07/12/2011

In this session, Andy Wigley takes a look at the new local database features in Windows Phone Mango....

Date: 07/12/2011

Jaime Rodriguez explores some of the new features in Mango by taking an existing application and...

Date: 07/12/2011

Oren takes us on a tour of some of the upcoming Silverlight features in the Mango release of Windows...

Date: 07/12/2011

Brandon Watson takes us on a tour of the upcoming release of Windows Phone “Mango” with a strong...

Date: 07/11/2011

In this session Ian Blackburn talks about Love Clean Streets and its use of platform features and...

Date: 07/08/2011

The VerySoftware team share their experiences in building successful applications for Windows Phone...

Date: 07/08/2011

Rich Griffin and Ollie Riches explore the use of data in a real-world application and how libraries...

Date: 07/08/2011

In this session, Andy Wigley looks at accessing, storing and manipulating data in mobile...

Date: 07/08/2011

In this session, Oren Nachman walks through some common performance pitfalls on Windows Phone (and...

Date: 07/07/2011

In this session, Gergely Orosz talks about Cocktail Flow and some of the lessons they learned in...

Date: 07/07/2011

It seems like an age since “Tech.Days Live” when we had two full days of Windows Phone sessions. All...

Date: 07/07/2011

Yes, you can now get SketchFlow templates for Windows Phone (or sketchy styles as they’re known) and...

Date: 07/05/2011

I’m sure most of you reading this will already know we released Beta 2 of the developer tools for...

Date: 07/04/2011

Some time ago, at a Windows Phone User Group meeting in Cardiff, I saw Trevor Daniel talk about his...

Date: 06/06/2011

On the off chance you haven’t heard, we shipped the first beta of the next release of the Windows...

Date: 06/01/2011

I’d been round in circles a few times and had eventually settled on a technique that involved a 2nd...

Date: 05/19/2011

I posted the Day 1 agenda as there was some new information that hasn’t yet been published on the UK...

Date: 05/18/2011

When you’re organising an event, things change rapidly. Sometimes it’s just not possible to keep the...

Date: 05/18/2011

I’ve just spotted a great index of recordings of the Windows Phone sessions delivered at MIX11 on...

Date: 05/18/2011

If this starts happening whenever you launch the Windows Phone emulator Can I suggest following the...

Date: 05/12/2011

I keep returning to this issue and this time I think I might have cracked it. Here’s my problem: I...

Date: 05/12/2011

If you’re building Windows Phone apps and you’ve not heard about “Spring Cleaning” then take a...

Date: 05/11/2011

If, like me, you weren’t lucky enough to be at MIX this year, chances are you’ve got a bit of...

Date: 05/04/2011

If you’re from an iPhone / iOS background and you’re looking at Windows Phone 7 for the first time,...

Date: 05/04/2011

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