Sifting through some Mango documentation the other day, I realized that I had not enabled App Connect & Search Extensibility for my Windows Phone Mango applications. So, some research followed which indicated that it is not that difficult a mechanism to turn on .. & so I did. I think this is a brilliant way [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Search Extensibility for Windows Phone Mango Apps
Posted: September 26, 2011 in Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: bing, WPDev
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Windows 8 from 30,000 ft ..
Posted: September 25, 2011 in Speaking, Windows 8Tags: metro, speaking, Windows 8
Hopefully by now, most techies who follow MSFT keenly have had a chance to learn about Windows 8. BUILD Conference launched the pre-beta version of Windows 8, along with the developer tools that helps us build touch-centric Metro apps for Windows 8. There is obviously much to digest & learn .. these are the two [...]
Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data
Posted: September 22, 2011 in ArticlesTags: articles, Azure, SilverlightShow, WCF, WPDev
With my first article (here) with SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow) being well-accepted, I was encouraged to write some more. A second article was just published, which dabbled around the broad subject of Windows Phone applications leveraging Azure. It can be seen as a natural continuation of the first; but in this article, we talk about using WCF [...]
Connecting Azure and Windows Phone through OData
Posted: September 6, 2011 in ArticlesTags: Azure, OData, SilverlightShow, WPDev
So, SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow) is a wonderful resource for daily Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 news, exclusive articles, tutorials, videos and training. I would encourage anybody interested in Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone & other related technologies to check out the SilverlightShow content @ http://silverlightshow.net. Recently, I decided to author some content for the SilverlightShow team using [...]
Recap on “Pragmatic Windows Phone Developer” talk @ FANUG
Posted: September 1, 2011 in SpeakingTags: community, speaking, WPResources
Last Tuesday, Aug 30th, I had the wonderful opportunity to head up a little north to Findlay OH and talk about Windows Phone development at the Findlay Area .NET User Group (http://www.fanug.org/). Thanks a bunch to @FANUG leader Brian Cobb (@brianjcobb) for having me over. I thought we had very nice turn-out and hopefully I [...]
