Nokia Posts WP7 Code Samples

Nokia has posted a bevy of code samples for their new line of WP7 Phones. In case you live under a rock, they have released three new models, the Nokia 900, Nokia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 phones. [More]

Infragistics Releases Showcase Control Samples for WPF, Silverlight and WP7!

You may have seen the Finance Stocks Dashboard, Hospital, Earthquake Explorer, YouTube Media Timeline, Auto Dashboard, Airline Seating and World Stats examples that were released previously for XAML, but  if you haven’t I would highly recommend you check them out. The new examples Infragistics has posted continue to demonstrate what is possible with the controls – real world examples that use real data to show real scenarios.  Here is what they added, you can download the code and read the how-to blogs for each one of these samples: Finance - A Windows Phone 7 sample th... [More]

Getting your WP7 Desktop integration out of park with PAARC, the Phone as a Remote Control library

You have your Windows app. You have your Windows Phone 7. Wouldn't it be cool if you could control your Windows app from your phone? Turning your phone into a very powerful, configurable and flexible controller? Turning it into a remote control for your Windows app? But how would you write that? How would you connect the phone to the app? Send commands and status back a forth? That's the thing. You don't have to write it! Peter Kuhn (aka Mister Goodcat) has already written it for you and even open sourced the source too! Announcing: Phone as a Remote Control Shortly after I got my Windows... [More]

Verizon updates HTC Trophy radio firmware

Verizon is now pushing out an update to HTC WP7 Trophy phones which consists of a radio firmware update.  This should resolve some of the GSM roaming issues that have affected oweners when they went abroad and returned to the US.  The operating system version will remain the same as 7.10.7720.68, while other details include a firmware revision number (2305.13.20110.605) and a radio software version (1.53.00.12.01_23.17w.05.13U).

Coding4Fun Phone Tools v1.5 Released!

The latest release of WP7 Coding4Fun Toolkit has been released.  Bug fixes include enlarging the slider touch area and the fixing of a ColorSlider bug.  The toolkit has also been updated to the Nov Silverlight Toolkit. A new MetroFlow control has been added to the toolkit.  In addition, disabled looks for ColorSlider, SuperSlider, and ColorPicker have been added.  Title updates have been made for the TimeSpanPicker and SuperSlider controls as well. MetroFlow Tutorial Get the Toolkit here

Create your own WP7 image sharing social network (Facebook)

So you have a bunch of photos from the holidays? While you know all about the different photo sharing services and sites, as a dev you'd like to build your own sharing service wouldn't you? And maybe use that as a chance to play with building a mobile app that hooks to Windows Azure? Check out this in-progress series on doing just that!

Ad Rotator Control for Windows Phone 7

An ad rotator control for Windows Phone 7. Supports showing ads from different providers with configurable probabilities based on culture. The control fetches the settings from a remote XML file making real time swapping / replacing of ad providers possible. Supported ad providers: Microsoft PubCenter AdDuplex [Google AdMob- the latest SDK (4.04) is crashing with Mango, disabled it until Google fix it] [Inner-Active- temporarily not available due to no Mango support] Support for no ad display Example Use Cases The control can be used in a variety of ways. The most common use cases ... [More]

Telerik WP7 To-Do List Sample App

The Todolists app is a WP7 app built with Telerik controls for Windows Phone. The video shows what kind of functionality you can easily achieve with RadControls for Windows Phone.Furthermore the source code of the app is freely available to help you get started with WP7 development. The Telerik WP7 team has created this app show you how to use the controls in real-life scenarios and show you tips & tricks about how to use specific WP7 APIs into your application. There are detailed blogs guiding you through the development of the WP7 app. The page below will serve as a hub for all related r... [More]

How I made the ‘myChannel9′ wp7 app

Sigurd Snørteland writes a tutorial on how he wrote the myChannel9 WP7 app, complete with source code. The wp7-app 'myChannel9' displays news and videos from channel9.com, and offers features like the ability to favorite a show, browse by tags or search by keyword and, of course, the ability to watch videos right on your device (in portrait and landscape mode). See the tutorial here. Visit the project's CodePlex page here including full source code.