Category Archives: Mango
Yet Another Podcast #35–Silverlight, HTML5 and Developers
Part 1 of a conversation with Shawn Wildermuth, president of Agilitrain and author of the forthcoming book Essential Windows Phone 7 about Mix, Silverlight, Windows Phone, HTML5 and the state of .NET development Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading
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Best Practices For Local Databases
Mango From Scratch I’ve recently written two posts about coding for SQL CE in Mango (the next release of Windows Phone). Sean McKenna, who knows more about this than anyone walking the planet, dropped me an email to remind me … Continue reading
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Coming in Mango–Query the Contacts List
Mango From Scratch Coming in Mango is the ability to query the Contact List and retrieve considerably more information than was available previously. In addition to the EmailAddress Chooser Task and the PhoneNumberChooserTask Mango will include an AddressChooserTask. In addition, … Continue reading
Coming in Mango–Sql Server CE
Mango From Scratch With the forthcoming Mango release of Windows Phone (tools to be released this month) you can store structured data in a Sql Server Compact Edition (CE) database file in isolated storage (called a local database). You don’t … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #33–Mobile Game Development
Talking with Eric Mork and Kelly White about developing games and applications on Windows Phone, iPhone and Android. Kelly’s Blog Kelly’s Company Erik’s Company Reference information from show Microsoft ecosystem iOS apps Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading
Coming In Mango–ICommand
Mango From Scratch As noted in earlier posts, Mango represents a move from Silverlight 3+ to Silverlight 4, and with that comes ICommand on ButtonBase and Hyperlink (and classes that derive from these two). This is a significant breakthrough, especially … Continue reading
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Coming in Mango–Implicit Styles
Mango From Scratch Mango represents the upgrading of the Windows Phone Operating System from Silverlight 3+ to 4. With Silverlight 4 comes a number of very useful features, not least of which is implicit styling. With implicit styling you create … Continue reading
Developing for Windows Phone?? Bookmark This Site
My colleagues in Developer Guidance have created 22 topic/scenario-focused web pages on App Hub, the Windows Phone developer website, that provide a comprehensive view of all the resources available for Windows Phone development. The pages are self-contained, single-page search targets, … Continue reading
What’s Coming In Mango–Reminders
Mango From Scratch One of the very cool features coming in Mango is Reminders, and more generally, scheduled tasks. This allows you to set up a reminder and then exit the application. When your reminder fires you have the … Continue reading
Tooling in Mango
The big news at Mix this year was the upcoming release of Mango – the next generation for Windows Phone. Among the many exciting new features were a few new tooling capabilities that will change the way you write your … Continue reading
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