Looking back over the last 6 months of this series of articles, you’ve created wireless-efficient WCF REST + JSON Web Services in Azure to download data from SQL Azure tables to Windows Phone. You’ve maintained in-memory collections of objects in … Continue reading
At MIX 11 in Vegas this week, we unveiled an avalanche of new platform features and tools for mobile developers. It’s a big list, and I’m sure I’ll leave some things out, but here I go: 1) Multitasking 2) Fast … Continue reading
Right on the heels of the Microsoft – Nokia partnership announcement, we’ve got a bunch of new features that will be coming out before the end of 2011. Let’s take a quick look at what’s coming: – Copy and Paste … Continue reading
The two companies plan to combine assets and develop innovative products on an unprecedented scale to build a new global mobile ecosystem. – Nokia will adopt Windows Phone 7 as its principle smartphone strategy and help drive the future of … Continue reading
About a month ago, I wrote an article intended to help you fill some of the gaps left by the missing SQL Server Compact database. Since your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight app is consuming an ObservableCollection of objects streaming down … Continue reading
By now, you’ve heard me talk a lot about the role wireless data networks play when it comes to the success of your mobile application. They are unreliable, intermittent, highly latent and often slower than they should be due to … Continue reading
In my last article of this series, you finally got to consume wireless-friendly WCF REST + JSON Services from both Windows Server and Windows Azure with data coming from SQL Server/SQL Azure. You now have an ObservableCollection of Customer objects … Continue reading
Do you have a burning question related to Windows Phone? Are you unsure, confused or need more information? Do you have feedback you want to share? Whatever your motivation, this session is not to be missed. For one time only … Continue reading
A Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) allows corporate IT departments to support multiple mobile applications on a single platform. Gartner states that this market currently tops $1 billion, and forecasts that 95% of the world’s organizations will standardize on a … Continue reading
The Silverlight development environment has proven itself to be a rich, capable and adaptable runtime that has reached across platforms to support Windows, the Mac, the Web, Nokia and Windows Phone 7. Azure is Microsoft’s powerful cloud offering that brings compute, … Continue reading
In my last two articles, I showed you how to build WCF REST services using Visual Studio 2010 that can reside on-premise in Windows Server 2008 or in the Cloud in Windows Azure. Furthermore, I demonstrated pulling data from a … Continue reading
Written by: J. Gerry Purdy 10/20/2010 You have to hand it to Microsoft. They have certainly fulfilled the old saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Microsoft has had a number of previous attempts to build a … Continue reading
Let’s start at the server and work our way to the phone. Anyone who knows me is probably aware that I come from a wireless background so I’m always obsessed with things like coverage, bandwidth and latency when it comes … Continue reading
Due to incredible demand, we just released a CTP to support Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7. Go grab the developer tools at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a808a69d-6119-47b7-b858-262be5c49915&displaylang=en. I got my start doing Pocket PC development with eMbedded Visual Basic. I’m glad to see … Continue reading