mobile development

Link Removed is a Windows Phone 7 game for programmers and even folks who are casually interested in learning how to program - on a mobile phone. This game includes "Intellisense" (automatic code completion as you type), support for C# and VB.NET, many thought-provoking puzzles that programmers...

In this episode of The Full Stack, Jesse and Jon reboot their windows phone client project using Test Driven Development (TDD) and the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. Previous episodes focused on getting different technologies such as Windows Phone, WCF, and OData, connected. With a better...

When you think about all the code executing in the world at any given time, there's a good chance you're thinking about a lot of code written in C/C++ (aka native code). As Mohsen Agsen mentions so astutely in this impromptu and candid conversation, C++ can be thought of as the dark matter of...

This year at the PDC we took advantage of the large amount of students creating apps for the new Windows Phone 7. In this clip I sat down with 5 students from across the globe to learn about how the spent their time at PDC and what apps that had each created. Good stuff! Link Removed Link Removed

David Anson, Senior SDE in the Silverlight controls toolkit, andDave Relyea, Senior Dev Lead on Silverlight mobile team, introduce the controls available in the first release of theLink Removed. The toolkit is open source—not only do you get good controls, but you get primitives you can reuse...

You probably already know that the final version of Windows Phone Developer Tools wasshipped today! In celebration, we decided to walk through the corridors of Studio F (where most of the devs, PMs, and testers are), and talk with a few of the people who are behind this great release of Windows...

Since Windows Phone doesn’t allow 3rd party applications to run in the background, your code can’t listen to or poll the Web for updates. However, Windows Push Notification Service overcomes this communication issue, making it possible for Windows Phone devices to receive Push Notification...

Link RemovedBizSpark and 3D worlds startup Reaction Grid has been working with Microsoft on a unique customer experience for developers interested in learning more about developing for Windows Phone 7. They've built a virtual world where visitors can explore upcoming phone features, get access...

Link RemovedIn this deep dive,*Sean McKenna from Windows Phone*and Greg Hodgal discuss how to program for Windows Phone 7 using the accelerometer. An accelerometer is a sensor that measures acceleration forces such as gravity or the forces caused by moving the sensor. All Windows*Phones have at...