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So that didn’t take long. Microsoft has made a Windows Phone 7 emulator available to all, explaining that it is a virtual machine running the real device OS. While it works fine for debugging applications, most of the phone UI is mysteriously absent, the exception being Internet Explorer (needed for testing web applications). However, Dan …continue reading Windows Phone 7 emulator yields its secrets Last night at the Microsoft Mix party in Las Vegas I happened across Michael Lehman, a senior architect, who told me he had been working for the last six years on a Visual Studio add-on called Feature Builder. This turns out to be the evolution of the very same project which Microsoft’s Jack Greenfield told …continue reading Visual Studio software factories to emerge from Microsoft deep freeze Windows Phone 7 is a managed code platform, we’ve been told at Mix10 in Las Vegas. Development is via Silverlight or XNA; there is no native API. Of course there is a native API; the question is more about what code is allowed to access it. Still, in the press briefing the spokesman was clear that …continue reading No native code development on Windows Phone 7 says Microsoft – so what about Flash? I’m reading the documentation for Windows Phone development. Here’s what it says: A set of tools will help the developer to submit and certify their applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace. Applications are submitted in a .XAP file format, which is essentially one compressed file that contains all the files that are needed by the application. …continue reading Microsoft copies Apple with Windows Phone app lock-in? I’m in Las Vegas for Microsoft’s Mix10 conference, where the developer story for Windows Phone 7 series is being unveiled. According to the press release, the tooling for Windows Phone 7 looks like this: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone (free) …continue reading Windows Phone 7 developer story unveiled at Mix10 I’m just back from QCon London, a software development conference with an agile flavour that I enjoy because it is not vendor-specific. Conferences like this are energising; they make you re-examine what you are doing and may kick you into a better place. Here’s what I noticed this year. Robert C Martin from Object Mentor …continue reading QCon London 2010 report: fix your code, adopt simplicity, cool .NET things Martin Fowler of ThoughtWorks gave what seemed an important session at QCon London, exploring the ethical dimension of software development with a talk called What are we programming for?. The room was small, since the organisers figured that a track on IT with a a conscience would be a minority interest; but Fowler always attracts …continue reading Martin Fowler on the ethics of software development – QCon report An article on paidcontent gives me pause for thought. In it, Penguin Books’ CEO John Makinson talks of plans to publish content on Apple’s forthcoming iPad device. The iPad represents the first real opportunity to create a paid distribution model that will be attractive to consumers says Makinson. This is all to do with the App store; …continue reading Penguin’s Apple love-in |
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