September 2010 Blog Posts

Chance to test your WP7 app on a device (UK)

There is a DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper community event scheduled for 7th October 2010 in Manchester, for Windows Phone 7. As well as hosting some great talks they are holding a “XAPathon”, which basically means an oppurtunity to get your WP7 app onto a real device! In their words if you have been working with the Windows Phone 7 developer tools but haven’t been able to run it on a real phone yet, compile it with the RTM dev tools and bring along your XAP and we’ll be providing some real phones you can try it out on   The DDD days are ran by the...

Loading external images in the background – Windows Phone 7

I have just finished 5 very busy weeks leading the development of 2 showcase apps for the Windows Phone 7 launch. As well as a excellent SDK there have been some great extras creeping out from the Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 team in the US. The one I wanted to highlight was Delay’s LowProfileImageLoader which makes it easy to off load the loading of multiple images at once to a background thread. Before you rush off to take a look at his excellent work take note, if you use Expression Blend or indeed the VS2010...