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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A roundup of news about the new HP TouchSmart 310 and the HP TouchSmart 4.0 software

Hardware, HP TouchSmart, Personal, Software, Tech Toys

[Update 2010-09-22: A few more unique mentions have come in; see links and quotes below marked [Update] ] Only a little vanity post; a collection of links to stories and other potentially interesting tidbits. These were some of the first mentions of the HP TouchSmart 310 with HP TouchSmart 4.0 software, unveiled on September 20,

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