Channel 9 - Discussions by ilija injac http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by ilija injac http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ilija injac/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ilija injac/Discussions en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:28:55 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:28:55 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - We want to help Windows Phone grow but how? @Ian2:

Looks good! I will blog also about it! Really good ideas out here, and I didn't know about them. Thank you! And when I am finished creating the community page I mentioned, we could integrate your Silverligh-Tiles into the page, if you would allow it.

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Promote it on your blog, webpage or twitter and participate.

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@longzheng

You are absolutely right. Yesterday I found a amazing community software called elgg

which not only includes the socializing features but also, blogs for every participant, message boards, forums and much more. Here the pages could fit in the product presentation page, the standard "friend" functions could be used for collaboration, the forums for product support, the blogs for update messages and somewhere - we can find also a place for a company or developer profile. And - every App will be published as press-release for free - does this sound good?

 

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Yes, experts could and should offer help (I mean here the Microsoft Experts). The bad thing about WP7 development is, that you pay your developer fees to submit an app, you buy phone hardware and you buy books and eventually you buy some training. After all of this investments for a private person (I don't talk about companies here) you also have to pay for support regarding your WP7 development problems? I think that's not fair. Microsoft should open its knowlegebase to all developers who have paid the fees for app hub. On the other hand I want to say "Thank you" again to all people on the app hub forums, for answering my questions.

Regarding geocaching.com, I am sure that they have used commercial components to develop this app. Most of the apps on marketplace do so. Especially apps that work with long lists of data, or apps that use charting, etc. Telerik (I am not involved with Telerik in any way) e.g. has a "Windows Phone Showcase Gallery" where you can see some apps that use this controls:http://www.telerik.com/products/windows-phone/getting-started/showcase.aspx?Page=2 I have bought them also, because they have a good price, compared to other manufacturers. The base controls like listbox are awfully slow. For release 2.0 I will use the telerik components to give my users a better experience.

And I know, that the guys on app hub work really hard to manage the certification process - but sometimes it takes too long, This makes it hard to plan marketing activities for the published apps.

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