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CODE SAMPLE for this VIDEO Fast Application Switching is perhaps the most exciting developer feature in Windows Phone Mango. With FAS, applications stay in memory after deactivation, which makes resuming the application nearly instantaneous, greatly improving the end user experience. All you need to…

A small mobile app development shop of professional video game developers who create XNA games for WindowsPhone 7 in their spare time. This video features their founder, Jason Weimann, talking about their Alpha Strike game, which these developers made virtually in one sitting. Jason explains how he…

PointAbout is a three-year-old startup company based in the Washington DC area. The company plans, develops and deploys mobile experience for the world’s leading organizations. During the interview with Zhiming Xue “Z”, Kevin Lenane and Derek Tiffany at PointAbout talked about their development…

In this walk through, we will create a game for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight, in the style of table shuffleboard style game for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight.. Many bars feature these long wooden table games, in which players slide metal pucks down the length of the table, attempting to…

  While the goal of these quickstarts is to discuss the issues and solutions involved in porting our Windows Phone 7 app to a Windows Store app, there are some features and requirements in Windows 8 we wanted to address: snapping and appcontracts. Windows 8 Contracts provide OS level…

In this episode of The Full Stack, Jesse and Jon kick off a new Pomodoro task / time management project with a Windows Phone application using MVVM Light, building out the basic models, and setting up home screen. Links: Pomodoro Technique MVVM Light

Ashish Jaiman talks with AWS Weatherbug team and discusses how they are leveraging Silverlight, Bing Maps and Windows Phone 7. Weatherbug is in the business of providing weather information to consumers and enterprises on desktop, web and smart phones. Weatherbug uses Microsoft SQL Server,…

Last week we delivered a series of developer events for Windows Phone 7 in New Zealand. This is a highlight video of the sessions. Further detail of the events can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2010/06/18/new-zealand-windows-phone-7-dev-training-events.aspx

In this multipart article series, we’ll cover: Project overview Developing the phone application Building the robot Creating the phone user experience Session WPH 314 – Coding4Fun: Learning Windows Phone 7 Development by creating a robotic t-shirt cannon!

Windows Phone 7 Series has generated  a huge amount of excitement at MIX10.John O'Donnell, Jared Bienz and Ahmed El-Ramly got together to give their thoughts on the first days Windows Phone 7 Series sessions and what features has them reaching for the new free developer toolsYou…