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First impression of the HTC Trophy and Windows Phone 7
A few weeks after the official release of windows phone 7 our entire company (Avanade Netherlands) moved to Windows phone 7. Every Employee (225) received a HTC Trophy today and tonight i’ve put my new...
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Using the WP7 system color in live tiles and application icon
I’m currently building my first WP7 application for a contest that is held by Avanade Netherlands for all its employees. Who can create the best app in a small amount of time. My app is almost finished...
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My Windows Phone 7 Mango Beta review
The beta of Windows Phone 7.1 codename “Mango” was released last week and in this post I’ll write down my experiences with Mango that I had using it since the launch of the beta. I’ll try to update...
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WP7 App hub error: The [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the...
Today the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 App Hub got a makeover. My new app was ready for deployment yesterday so logging into the new App hub to deploy my app today was the plan. After uploading my .xap...
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Introducing: PinPin for Windows Phone 7
I’m proud to announce my 2nd Windows Phone 7 application available in the marketplace. The new app is called PinPin and is an app to locate an ATM near your location. The app is really simple at this...
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PinPin 1.2 update now available in the WP7 Marketplace
First note I want to make: The “Error retrieving ATM locations” bug is fixed in this release! Here is the story on how it all went down: Since PinPin’s launch last week I’ve been loaded with feedback...
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Switching Dark/Light theme in Blend for Windows Phone
Today a small tip on how to change the design view of your windows phone 7 application in Expression Blend so you can see it in light or dark theme or check how all the different accent colors look:...
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New blog template
I got a bit bored with my old blog template so I finally switched to a new one that fitted me better. This new template is better readable and clean and I like the orange color that fits with my...
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Started a new Codeplex project: Windows Phone Silverlight Toolkit Behavior...
Of all windows phone development that is done in the world I think almost everyone is using the Windows Phone Silverlight Toolkit you can get from Codeplex. This toolkit adds a lot of new controls and...
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Tutorial: How to use the Silverlight Toolkit transitions without writing XAML...
In my last post I announced the new Codeplex project I’ve started called the Windows Phone Silverlight toolkit behavior extensions. In this post I’ll explain how to use the behaviors in this project in...
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Creating dynamic Windows Phone 7 live tile images client side
One of the best parts of windows phone that makes Windows Phone stand out are the live tiles. Microsoft enables you to do a few out of the box customizations to the live tiles but when you want to go...
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Windows Phone 7 Emulator Skin Switcher 1.0 Beta
In the last few weeks several people started creating their own skins for the Windows Phone 7 Emulator. Switching between different skins was a lot of work by copying files manually to the emulator...
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Fixing the The Target “GetCopyToOutputDirectoryContentProjectItems” does not...
My colleague was installing the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK today and we received the following errors during installation plus a popup box that the bootstrapper had an exception: Setup could not install the...
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Testing the SH WP ApplicationBar in an Multiselectlist MVVM scenario
If you’re developing for Windows Phone 7 and are using MVVM you’re probably familiar with the problem that you cannot bind the out of the box ApplicationBar because it is not a silverlight control....
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Windows Phone 7 emulator skin switcher 1.2 released on Codeplex
Version 1.0 and 1.1 of my Windows Phone 7 emulator skin switcher were hosted on my SkyDrive but I got several requests from people to move it to Codeplex so I did that this afternoon. From now on the...
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TechdaysNL 2012 Lots of WP7, Win8, Metro and ASP.NET MVC sessions. Which...
This thursday Microsoft Techdays 2012 kicks off for Dutch developers working on the Microsoft platform. This year I’m speaking at 2 sessions on Windows Phone but I’m also going to visit other sessions...
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Demo code and ppt deck from my Techdays talk on WP7 Push notifications, Live...
It’s they day after the Techdays 2012 in the Netherlands and everyone is fully inspired by all the new knowledge they acquired at the event. I got questions from people asking for the powerpoint deck...
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Build your first Windows Phone app sample code and powerpoint deck from my...
Yesterday I did a hands on Windows Phone development session to show students of the Windesheim in Zwolle how to build their first application. If you were at yesterdays session I hope you got inspired...
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Using the complementary color of the phone accent color in your WP7 app
I’m building a Windows Phone app where I want to compare 2 objects to each other visually by showing graphs on how good each of the objects is performing. because I like to use the accent color in my...
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Windows Phone developer introduction sessions at UTwente & TU/E
Last week I visited Twente University and today I went to the University of Eindhoven to do a session on building your first Windows Phone App. This post is mainly created for visitors of those...
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