Windows Phone 8 Developer Summit is finally over and has many early adopters who recently purchased a second generation device left unsatisfied, to say the least. As an early adopter myself who bou...
In January 2011 Internet Security specialist AVG released a study. This study tells us that nowadays children get in touch with technical gadgets much earlier than in the past, while they are not a...
Today I had to solve the problem that I needed to add multiline text into my resource file. I did not find a Windows Phone specific solution, but enough hints to solve the problem. Here is a short...
Every App has always a title on its dedicated tile for the Windows Phone start screen. But what if your tile icon contains already the title of your app? Normally, you are setting the appearance o...
Both Nokia and HTC are providing a Panorama picture function with their Windows Phone devices. Nokia released its “creativity suite”, while HTC integrated this feature in the camera app. Both devi...
Windows Phone has a problem, at least in the eyes of Eric Zemam of informationweek.com. According to a recent article, Google is ignoring the Windows Phone OS. Google’s lack of support for the ...
This week Microsoft released the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 to us developers. If you are on Windows 7, you can hit the download button and install the SDK, everything will go fine. If you have used m...
Andreas Hammar, developer and author on jayway.com, discovered that Fast Application Switching is still available on 256 MB devices. As he discovered, the MSDN documentation has been updated recen...
Microsoft and Nokia are teaming up again to push the Windows Phone OS. This time it is all about developers. Over the next three years, both companies are investing the amount of 18 million euros ...
Yesterday Saijo George, owner of 1800PocketPC.com, asked me to join the team. As I love this site, of course I accepted the offer. How will this affect my blog? Well, on some entries in Windows P...