I tweeted this, but it is so fantastic it needed its own blog post. Nathalie BELVAL (@nbelval) put together this handy card for designing and developing apps for Windows Phone… Read More »Windows Phone 8 & 7.x Design Cheat Sheet
This is a simple, straight-forward walk-through for doing StringFormat binding in Blend. It is meant to go along with my much more comprehensive post on StringFormat binding for Windows Phone.… Read More »Windows Phone StringFormat Binding And Blend
This post assumes you’ve gone through the process of setting up the permissions for a Facebook app and getting your user to log into Facebook through your app. In short,… Read More »Posting To The Facebook Wall in Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight)
This is really fast but it took me a while to figure out. I was getting the following on my recent project when I tried to save something using IsolatedStorageSettings:… Read More »“Operation Not Permitted” On IsolatedStorageSettings in Windows Phone
I just spent a couple days on this and, in the end, I didn’t really figure it out. Someone else at my work (the brilliant Rylan Barnes) showed me the… Read More »Adding Cookies to a Windows Phone 7 HttpWebRequest
OK… it’s been almost 2 months since I tried to start this series and now I’m going to finish it. A brief warning: this is done with pre-Mango bits so… Read More »Windows Phone 7 Push Notification For Beginners–The Device
I know there are about a thousand blog posts on implementing push notifications in a Windows Phone 7 application. But having now implemented push notifications a couple times into WP7… Read More »Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications For Beginners (Now With Testing!)
UPDATE (4/9/2011) : MIX Outsider has been updated to fix some “no network” issues and refine the message creation. Download MIX Outsider (for sideloading) MIX11 Outsider is the MIX11 app… Read More »Introducing MIX11 Outsider for Windows Phone 7
When designing a “You are here” icon for the map in ShopSavvy (download now on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7. It’s free and super awesome), I decided to try… Read More »Fun Theme-Friendly Windows Phone Icon
App bars in Windows Phone 7 are actually a pretty cool little bit of functionality. They give the user 1-4 instantly accessible options for dealing with the screen the user… Read More »App Bars in Windows Phone 7 In Blend