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5 apps done and available in Windows 8 store !

help.net — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:36:00 GMT

At the end of last year, I took the personal challenge to create multiple apps for Windows 8, XAML and C#. I had at the time one app ready but difficulties to pass the certification process. How things have changed since that dreadfu time ;-) The whole...(read more)

BusFinder - Dublin bus Real time for Windows Phone 7

help.net — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:18:00 GMT

That's my frst post in a year but hey what a year, busy with my little experiments on Windows Phone. The lates one BusFinder is doing well and with some other developers we are hoping to do even better in the next release. I have to admit that the first...(read more)

Spritemapper

help.net — Fri, 20 May 2011 09:48:00 GMT

Cool app! Spritemapper is an application that merges multiple images into one and generates CSS positioning for the corresponding slices. Read more......(read more)

How to create a settings page for Windows Phone 7

help.net — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:05:00 GMT

From the VBTeam I have experienced lot of fun creating Windows Phone 7 applications in Visual Basic and writing about them here. In our last post , I explained how to create a Bing Maps application for Windows Phone 7. In this blog, I want to share a...(read more)

ASP.NET Mobile Handset Detection, Redirection & Development Made Easy

help.net — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:02:00 GMT

Today almost all web sites are designed to operate on a desktop or laptop computer. Anyone operating marketing, ecommerce, information or entertainment web sites now needs to consider the mobile phone when designing content and services. Mobile web sites...(read more)

Handling XML data with Windows Phone 7

help.net — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:58:00 GMT

Data storage and access is nearly an eternal topic in all kinds of applications. In Windows Phone 7, data manipulation still plays a fundamental and important role. Regrettably, in the current Windows Phone 7 Series there is no local database API that...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage

help.net — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:56:00 GMT

Isolated Storage aims to enable managed applications to create and maintain local storage. In Windows Phone 7 Silverlight-based applications, all I/O operations are restricted to isolated storage and do not have direct access to the underlying OS file...(read more)

Phoney Windows Phone 7 Project Now Available!

help.net — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:40:00 GMT

UPDATE: Phoney now has a NuGet package. Search on NuGet to add Phoney to your project! I started this project when I found I had a number of small classes that I'd built for my Windows Phone 7 application so I thought it was time to share. here is the...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Explorer

help.net — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:31:00 GMT

WP7 Isolated Storage Explorer is a tool designed to help developers and testers interact with the isolated storage file for Silverlight Windows Phone 7 applications. The explorer can work both as a desktop application for testers or integrated in Visual...(read more)

Why it is so difficult to find a good Ads SDK for Windows Phone 7

help.net — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:01:00 GMT

This post try to address an issue with the Microsoft Advertising SDK, the main fact that today Microsoft is still refusing access to the Ad Center worldwide. Yesterday they generously increase the number of free apps we can develop from 5 to 100. According...(read more)

Coding4Fun Toolkit for WP7 Overview and Getting Started

help.net — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:59:00 GMT

This post is an overview of the new Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit . It offers developers additional controls and helper classes for Windows Phone 7 application development, designed to match the rich user experience of the Windows Phone 7. The official...(read more)

Create quickly an app for WP7 no code involved

help.net — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:49:00 GMT

FollowMyFeed allows you to quickly create your Windows Phone 7 application for free without any technical knowledge....(read more)

Who ate all the pies!!

help.net — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:44:00 GMT

Richard Griffin current project has taken him on an interesting journey of late and so he thought that it would be helpful to share with you some of his experiences and of course some code. He have been taking a look into charting on WP7 Read more......(read more)

Jurassic a Javascript .Net compiler

help.net — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:26:00 GMT

What is Jurassic? Jurassic is an implementation of the ECMAScript language and runtime. It aims to provide the best performing and most standards-compliant implementation of JavaScript for .NET. Jurassic is not intended for end-users; instead it is intended...(read more)

How to write good code

help.net — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:39:00 GMT

From XKCD...(read more)