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The 3 Best WP7 Performance Analysis Articles

When Microsoft shipped the Mango tools for Visual Studio they included Windows Phone Performance Analysis Toolset. This is a memory and cpu profiler specifically developed for Windows Phone 7. The original docs were IMHO atrocious, really unhelpful. However in the last few months there have been some great articles explaining how to really user the tool and more importantly understand and navigate its output My 3 favourites are Memory Profiling for Application Performance http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/02/01/memory-profiling-for-application-performance.aspx How to: Identify and Fix Common Performance Issues Using Windows Phone Performance...

Finding Windows Phone 7 apps

I mentioned AppFuze in my last post called "Filling in the gaps in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace” and how they were filling in the gap for an online listing of WP7 apps. Well Bing have gone and blown that out of the water with their Visual Search, it is freakin awesome. The 3 apps I worked on Ministry of Sound, one for a broad sheet newspaper, and Shoot Shag Marry are 18th, 11th and 23rd in their respective categories.   Prefer Google as you search engine? Just look how rubbish the web based Android  App Search is. Yes Android is...

Filling in the gaps in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace

Well Windows Phone 7 launch has gone well with the number of apps growing at an excellent rate. However as a user of a WP7 and an app developer there are a few bits currently missing from the Marketplace Usage Statistics Download and purchase reports are not due to be available until Jan 2011. We are all going to be anxiously waiting those reports to find out how successful our apps have been. If you cannot wait that long Mark Monster explains how you can use Google Analytics to capture usage information or checkout the Silverlight Analytics Framework on WP7 at Kodierer...

“submission in progress” means it hasn’t been submitted yet

As I wrote the title of this blog post it sounded so bloody obvious, “in progress” does not mean “complete” but when you are submitting your app to Microsoft’s new App Hub, create.msdn.com it does not seem so obvious. The submission process is a wizard which lets you “save and quit” at any point, if your app says it is “submission in progress” that simply means you haven’t completed the submission process, go back to the wizard, move all the way through to the end and press Submit. Many thanks to Sleepy Daddy Software for pointing this out on the forums and...

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...