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MIX11 Day 2 Keynote–Windows Phone 7 (Mango), Silverlight, Kinect! By Chris Ismael

Wow tons of announcements and cool demos here at MIX11 this morning!  Too many to list here, so I’ll just point you to the video and provide you the timeline and conveniently skip to the [...]

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14 Apr 2011

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MIX11 Day 1 Keynote By Chris Ismael

There have been a bunch of cool announcements here at MIX11.  And since I only have half an hour before the next dev session, I’ll make this quick! Announcement/Demos Why you should [...]

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13 Apr 2011

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A second look at Jump Lists By Chris Ismael

I have to admit that when it comes to IE9, I am not as updated as I should be in terms of features.  Although we know certain features exist, sometimes you just have try and experiment with them [...]

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12 Apr 2011

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Windows Phone 7 Application Development Support By Chris Ismael

Hi there.  A lot of developers are asking me what support they can get from Microsoft when developing their applications for Windows Phone 7 (There are now close to 200 apps/games developed from [...]

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6 Apr 2011

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The Windows Azure Table – IKEA analogy By Chris Ismael

A few days ago I gave an overview presentation of Windows Azure to some BizSpark startups.  One of the questions that I got asked often during and after the presentation was why they would bother[...]

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3 Apr 2011

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My wife creates her first WP7 app! By Chris Ismael

I’ve been promising my wife that I’d build her a WP7 app that pulls feeds from her favorite fashion sites, but have never gotten around to doing it.  So when this app creator popped up, I [...]

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18 Mar 2011

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wp7dev: Using WebBrowser as an alternative to overcome multi-line TextBlock size limitation By Chris Ismael

*UPDATED: Generated html using NavigateToString instead of hosting on server. Actually I could’ve just generated everything in HTML instead using that* Those of you who have been playing with the [...]

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16 Mar 2011

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XNA Game Development Workshops at Singapore Universities By Chris Ismael

Last week we had Uditha Bandara (XNA MVP) fly over to Singapore to conduct XNA Game Development to polytechnics and universities here.  I have shamelessly copied his blog post that you can access[...]

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18 Feb 2011

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WP7 apps from Singapore (part 2!) By Chris Ismael

Hi guys, Sometime ago we did a post on WP7 apps built in Singapore.  This is an update post, 83 apps in all! Enjoy!  (To date, there are 6,304 apps for WP7 apps submitted globally according [...]

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17 Jan 2011

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Windows Phone 7 Resources from MSDN Flash By Chris Ismael

Today’s MSDN Flash newsletter has a chokful of resources to help developers get started with WP7 development.  For those of you who don’t know, MSDN Flash is a free newsletter to help [...]

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21 Dec 2010