Category: Software Development

  • Brandon Watson Loves Network Dashboard!

    Yesterday at the Build Blogger Bash at Microsoft’s Build conference, Brandon Watson, Microsoft Senior Director of Windows Phone Development, mentioned Network Dashboard during a live recording of the Windows Phone Dev Podcast. I showed him Network Dashboard and he immediately downloaded it on his phone. On the podcast He said, “I love it!” You’ll find the mention…

  • How to Use the PhotoChooserTask

    This is a quick post to show some code around how to use a PhotoChooserTask for Windows Phone programming: private BitmapImage OriginalImage = new BitmapImage(); private void btnAddPicture_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { PhotoChooserTask pix = new PhotoChooserTask(); pix.Completed += new EventHandler<PhotoResult&rt;(OnCameraCaptureCompleted); pix.ShowCamera = true; pix.Show(); } private void OnCameraCaptureCompleted(object sender, PhotoResult e) { if (e.TaskResult…

  • Visual Basic Support Now Available for Windows Phone 7 Development

    The Windows Phone 7 Development Team announced today the immediate availability of the RTW (Release To Web) version of the Visual Basic for the Windows Phone Developer Tools. For the initial release, this version requires Visual Studio 2010 Professional and only supports Silverlight projects.