Archive for the ‘Windows Phone 7 Stuff’ Category

Favorite Apps & Tricks

Ahright, this has been long due I guess. Having had a HTC HD7 Windows Phone for a couple of months now, here are my top 10 must-have 3rd party apps for WP7. This is a dynamic list though as my needs evolve. So, here goes:
1. Weather Channel — Rich WX data presented in panoramic layout; [...]


Oversimplified WP7 Browser Navigation Stack

This post is in response to a question someone asked in the Microsoft App Hub forum and because I was plain curious. That thread is here: http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/72708.aspx
So, in Windows Phone Silverlight programming, we have access to a WebBrowser control. This is essentially a stripped-down version of the IE browser in the OS and can be [...]


A Happy Bug

Recently, a small issue in Windows Phone 7 development drove me nuts for a day .. don’t get me wrong, I love doing WP7 dev; just got frustrated with not being able to change a small setting. Here’s the story..
Any WP7 application that uses Location Services has to have permissions from the user, as per app [...]


Flying? Don’t forget your apps !!

Learnt a little lesson off late; that is what this post will be about. I have been working on big Windows Phone 7 app (actually the soon to be available Sogeti Hub) along with a couple of buddies. We were code complete and testing edge cases while having the app deployed on my HTC HD7. [...]


20 Minute Twitter client for Windows Phone 7!

Flashback to Mix 2010. Microsoft is demonstrating various aspects of the newly announced Windows Phone 7 platform, since Mobile World Congress was merely a curtain raiser. A big focus is the power of Silverlight and how Mobile development would be a breeze with the tools provided. I got to look up who it was; but [...]