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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 9:31 PM

WP7.5 Mango: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Note: I love my phone, this post is a way to describe my (short) experience with the latest version of the Windows Phone OS (Mango), read that as my feedback to get a better product.   The Good First, the update process was excellent this time! Microsoft...
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Monday, October 03, 2011 4:26 PM

Activate Wi-Fi sharing on your Samsung Focus with Mango

Back in December 2010, I wrote about how you can Activate internet tethering on Samsung Focus with Rogers Canada . If you installed the latest WP7 update, Mango , this is still valid, but you have a new option: activate WiFi sharing !! As for tethering...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:15 PM

Windows Phone 7.5 Canadian App Challenge

    Canadian Developers: “Submit 2 quality apps and get a free Windows Phone 7.5. Your app could even be featured on the MSDN Newsletter and MSDN website.” Be among the first 300 to build or upgrade 2 quality apps in the Mango App Challenge...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011 2:00 PM

My talk on MIX11 (french)

This week I was invited at the Visual Studio Talk Show , a french .NET podcast, to chat with hosts Mario and Guy about the main announcements (HTML5, Silverlight 5, Windows Phone 7, IE10, Kinect, …) made at MIX this year, so in case you need a recap....
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:59 PM

My “Back from MIX” presentation at the Montreal .NET Community

On Monday I did a “Back from MIX” presentation (in french) at the Montreal .NET Community with my co-worker Justin . It was great and I did my best to articulate the message from Microsoft at MIX, which is a task much harder than you would think (huge...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:06 AM

We Love Windows Phone fan-video!

Check out this awesome fan-video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/windowsphone Microsoft showed this at MIX11 while opening the second day’s Keynote, and said that if the video gets 200 000 views (currently 68160 as you can see if my screenshot), they...
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Thursday, April 07, 2011 9:21 PM

Windows Phone design learning content on .toolbox!

Nice! .toolbox Microsoft tutorials provide learning content for Windows Phone 7 Design ! http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/school/tutorials.aspx “Explore different tutorials to get hands on with Silverlight and Expression Blend across a wide array...
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Sunday, December 12, 2010 6:13 PM

My Windows Phone 7 presentation in Montreal

Last week I presented a session as part of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Developers Briefing in Montreal. I was with another RunAtServer team member: Louis-Philippe Pinsonneault , who presented the “Phone Games with XNA” part. I showed some slides, then...
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:09 AM

Activate internet tethering on Samsung Focus with Rogers Canada

Disclaimer: All this works today (tested on several phones), but might not work tomorrow… Warning: After this setup you won’t be able to sync your phone with the Zune software via a cable, only via WiFi. Unless you manually switch back to cable mode ...
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Thursday, December 02, 2010 1:44 PM

Silverlight 5 preview!

A preview of Silverlight 5 has just been presented at the Silverlight Firestarter event!! New Features Announced for Silverlight 5 Beta   Premium Media Experiences Silverlight 5 offers improved media support and rich UI capabilities: Hardware Decode...
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