My third Windows Phone 7 app, FotoMovr, featured in Marketplace

Microsoft, Personal, Software, Software development, Tech Toys, Windows Phone 7

Thanks to some awesome work from my partner in crime at Cricketsoft, Tom Allen, our co-developed app, FotoMovr is featured in the Windows Phone Marketplace today. Both on the phone, the Marketplace website, and in the Zune client. Here’s some evidence: That’s me holding up my phone, and in the background the emulator running the

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Windows Phone 7 – No “editable” TextBlock

6 CommentsMicrosoft, Software, Software development, Windows Phone 7

As I’m diving into Windows Phone 7 development and making notes for myself on how WP7 compares to WebOS, I’ve come across one little wrinkle that works really nicely in WebOS (out-of-the-box) and doesn’t work so well in WP7 (out-of-the-box). I’m talking about a control (actually, a Widget in WebOS) that initially looks like a

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Windows Phone 7 – Bing Map Phone/Desktop diffs: MapLayer.SetPosition() missing on Phone

7 CommentsMicrosoft, Software development, Windows Phone 7

If you’re working on a Windows Phone 7 app that uses the Bing Map control, you might be interested in these little differences between the Desktop version and the Phone version of the map control. 1. The Location type on the Phone has no constructor that takes 2 parameters (the Desktop version does). You’ll have

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