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 section you’re interested in http://live.visitmix.com/Keynotes You can also read the Press Release here. Windows Phone Announcements! WP7 will add 16 new languages, extend to +8 more countries where developers can submit their apps, and +18 more countries where users can purchase apps. Nokia’s value and commitment to the WP7 ecosystem was also re-emphasized 11:18 – 18:48 ...

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 care HTML5 Native to Windows •http://foursquareplayground.com •http://worldsbiggestpacman.com •http://jsdo.it/event/svggirl/ •http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mix/videogallery.aspx?contentID=mix11_demo_ie10 Microsoft is showing its commitment to HTML5. IE9 is paving the way for these innovative web applications, mostly highlighting performance. You can run these HTML5 demos now in IE9 and other HTML5 compliant browsers. ...

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 to remember. (In this case, a feature that already existed in IE8). I’m glad I got the chance to attend a whole day pre-MIX event here in MIX11 touching on topics about HTML5 and IE9. The event was mostly about HTML5 really, but I learned a lot about IE9 as well. So I got to re-visit IE features, and probably spent a bit more time thinking about Jump Lists and what else can be done. ...

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 Singapore). I hope the following table helps! You Are A… Support Contact/Link Student Free AppHub ($99US) registration through DreamSpark [http://bit.ly/fSGL4i](http://bit.ly/fSGL4i “http://bit.ly/fSGL4i “) Startup Free AppHub ($99US) registration through BizSpark http://bit.ly/dHFOfI Startup/Company looking for funding to hire a WP7 developer ...

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 with a Windows Azure Table when there’s a SQL Azure available. I admit that after the presentation I felt that I have not explained this quite well too. Unfortunately, I don’t think it can be explained in one shot, but rather as series of explanations that eventually build up to one “Aha” moment. So I hope this post will provide helpful information in understanding the existence of Azure Tables and why it’s cheap. In a later post, we will touch on some uses for Azure Tables. ...

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 jumped on the opportunity… to tell her that she can now create her own app! So after dinner, I asked her to browse to http://followmyfeed.net/ so we can start building. Here’s a transcript of what happened: ...

*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 TextBlock control on WP7 and requiring tons of text to be written out are probably familiar with the limitation where your text is truncated beyond 2048x2048 pixels. There’s this cool solution where this dude created a custom Scrollable TextBlock for WP7 that addresses this by calculating the number of lines you have to display and automatically generating several TextBlocks in a StackPanel. However during my testing, this implementation consumes too much memory (90MB at one instance on the phone emulator). My scenario calls for displaying the underlying source code of a web page on my app on WP7. As you can imagine, there could be tons of javascript functions and css declarations under the hood. ...

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 here http://uditha.wordpress.com/ If you are interested in game development you may want to check out his blog, it’s got tons of resources! -- Last week I did XNA Game Development Workshops at Singapore Universities with collaboration from Microsoft Singapore.Universities Including ,Nanyang Technological University (NTU) ,SIM University and National University of Singapore(NUS). ...

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 to http://wp7applist.com/) WP7 App Developer 4D Simulator Tan Kin Lian 7pass Tran Ngoc Van Air Horn Just2us Alpha-Gene Springloaded AppsLah! NewsSG AppsLah! Art Love Smart Aps Ascii SMS Smart Aps AusInNews - Australia News in Topics ...

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 developers stay up to date with the latest development news from Microsoft. You can subscribe today! Get Started with Windows Phone 7! App Hub, your Windows Phone 7 developer portal, offers a single location where you can download the free Windows Phone 7 toolkit, find training and sample code, register for Marketplace, and submit applications and games. ...