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People think about apps differently than they used to. For a long time, applications have been a pretty thick layer in our digital sandwich: we paid lots of money for them and expected them to do big things. Those apps still exist: Photoshop, Visual Studio...
In my last blog post on XNA for Windows Phone 7 I said that I was working on a game in both Silverlight and XNA, and that if I got a chance to test out performance I would report back. As you can see in the image below, I got a chance to test out my Silverlight...
A couple of people have noticed that the Facebook Developer Toolkit doesn't work on the current release of Windows Phone 7. The primary reason is that it has a dependency on System.Windows.Browser - a library which isn't in the WP7 runtime (Silverlight...
I know I said I was done trying to recreate the Pivot control, but I'm happy to be able to share a standalone Pivot control that I've been working on. Keep in mind that a real Pivot control from Microsoft should eventually be released, so this...
I know I said I was done trying to recreate the Pivot control, but I'm happy to be able to share a standalone Pivot control that I've been working on. Keep in mind that a real Pivot control from Microsoft should eventually be released, so this...
This is part 3 - the final part - of how to create a Pivot style application for Windows Phone 7. Attached is the sample project and code for this example. The screencast starts off in Blend and shows how to create the endless pivot menu across the top...
I got some feedback after part 1 and part 2 of how to create a Pivot style for your Windows Phone 7 application - what I had created had a few issues. First, the pivot menu items across the top of the screen is supposed to be an endless scrolling menu...
This is part two of how to create a basic Windows Phone 7 application that follows the Pivot style of navigation (you can find part one here ). Part two of this screencast is focused on using manipulation events to provide gesture support for the Pivot...
I just posted a screencast showing how to create a basic Windows Phone 7 application that follows the Pivot style of navigation using Blend. This first screencast should be good enough to get most people by until more official Pivot and Navigation templates...
During the Windows Phone UI and Design Language session at Mix, the presenters talked about the Metro styled icons, and how applications of similar type should make use of the standard set of icons if possible. I had been hoping these icons would be released...
I just got back from 5 days in Vegas for Mix 2010 . Hopefully by now you've watched the first day's keynote and seen some of the awesomeness unveiled. If not, I'd highly suggest checking it out for demos of Netflix, Four Square, graphic.ly...
I've had the chance over the last month or two to play with Silverlight on the Nokia platform. Now that the SDK is available I threw together a video showing off a simple Facebook Connect powered Silverlight app running on a Nokia N97. (cross-posted...
One of Microsoft’s announcements on CES09 was Microsoft Tag. Do you remember last try of Microsoft to create mobile barcodes on Live platform? I remember it. So why Windows Live Barcode was deprecated, while Microsoft creates new one? What the key difference...
Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not...
Some days ago, somebody from Microsoft was shocked, when I told him, that I’m planning to run Windows XP (and later Windows 7) as operation system for mission critical automotive device. He even checked with Windows XP embedded team boot times for XP...
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