Anith Gopal

An den TechDays 11 Bern haben wir unseren Entwickler-Wettbewerb ankündigt, welcher nun für alle Entwickler offen ist.

Event Details Who? Developers. Developers.

Another great feature for Windows Phone Mango is the ability to set up reminders and alerts in your application (While it is not running).  You would be surprised how many applications want/need this.

A few days ago, I received an email from Yalla Apps about a new competition they’ve launched.  They are giving developers another chance to win a Windows Phone 7!  Interested in winning?  Read on… Yalla Apps brings an exciting new competition: Create your own video tutorial about any of the new Mango features and enter the competition to win a Windows Phone 7! The winner will be decided by how many people like the tutorial on our Facebook page! How to participate Make a video tutorial based on any of the new Mango features Login to Yalla Apps and submit your entry on yallaapps.com/dashboard/mango-tutorial before 30/09/2011 We will upload your entry to our Facebook page so our fans can view it and Like it The most popular tutorial wins! You can view the current entries here on our Facebook competition page Come on, start recording now and you could be the winner!

Launching browser from your Phone application is often required. The common term could be “Shell” for those who came to classic VB age like me. Later in .NET it was wrapped under System.Diagnostic.Process .

Windows Phone 7 can flawlessly play media files. There are list of supported codec which Windows Phone 7 can play. However below is the simple XAML which can enable the media loading

There was a lot of buzz around mobile development at DevTeach Montreal a few weeks ago with an entire track dedicated to mobile development, 4 Windows Phone 7 sessions, and a post-conference full day event all about Windows Phone 7 with Colin Melia . As an added bonus, Carl Franklin ( @carlfranklin ) and Richard Campbell ( @richcampbell ) were on hand to host a special .NET Rocks! show – Panel of Mobile Platform Experts. On the panel were Kevin McNiesh, iPhone expert; Robert MacHale, Android expert; Michael Hutchinson, Mono expert; and Colin Melia, Windows Phone 7 expert.

Seit der offiziellen Ankündigung unserer Aktion “Phones für Apps” haben sich in den letzten Wochen und Monaten viele enthusiastische Entwickler um ein subventioniertes Windows Phone beworben, um ihre Apps testen und fertigstellen zu können – und die meisten Bewerber haben tatsächlich auch ein Phone erhalten. Diese Aktion ist seit heute offiziell beendet

Launched today, the iPhone/iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool helps developers find their way around when they discover the Windows Phone platform.  Think of the API mapping tool as being like a translation dictionary. For example, let’s say that you’re planning a vacation to France. Since you don’t speak the language, you’ll bring a pocket travel dictionary.

Auf der Konferenz in Las Vegas hat Joe Belfiore (Obertelefonmufti) versprochen, wenn dieses Video, und nicht ein anderes wie ich in einem vorherigen Blog behauptet habe, 200.000 mal geguckt wird, macht er daraus einen Werbespot für den amerikanischen Markt. Also … ist es das wert? Ich finde ja….( read more )

Simon Said game on began life as a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that showed off touch user experience. Since then, it has become an advertising supported application for Windows Phone 7.

In the previous post I covered the “semi-passive” way for authentication between a Windows Phone 7 client and a REST service. This post completes the information with the “active” way. There’s nothing unexpected here really: We call the Identity Provider using a RequestSecurityToken message (RST) We send the SAML token to ACS and get a “Simple Web Token” (SWT) We call the service with the SWT as in the previous example using the Web browser The only tricky thing is that there’s no library in the phone runtime for sending the RST message to the STS