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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 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’ve just received a Toshiba NB300 Netbook, which looks like it will be useful for blogging and web access during a couple of conferences coming up shortly – up to 11 hours battery life, great. I am interested in the user experience when starting out with a new machine, so made a few notes. I regard …continue reading The Windows Netbook experience: Toshiba NB300 The bizarre story of the EU-mandated Windows browser choice screen took an unexpected twist recently when it was noticed that the order of the browsers was not truly random. IBM’s Rob Weir was not the first to spot the problem, but did a great job in writing it up, both when initially observed and after it …continue reading Why programmers should study Microsoft’s random failure and not trust Google search Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel has blogged about the Windows Phone 7 development platform. As widely leaked, the new mobile device supports Silverlight and XNA; Kindel also mentions .NET, but since both Silverlight and XNA are .NET platforms, that might not mean anything additional. The big story is about compatibility: To deliver what developers expect in the developer platform …continue reading Windows Phone 7 incompatibility may drive developers elsewhere I’m watching Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer present a session on cloud computing. It’s been underwhelming so far, but I was interested to see how Sky TV will look on Xbox 360 (though I’d readily swap it for BBC iPlayer, which Microsoft seems to be obstructing). The key point: you can watch with your Xbox Live friends …continue reading Microsoft’s super-exciting Sky TV on Xbox with social interaction The Visual Studio Blog makes great reading for .NET developers, and not only because of the product it describes. Visual Studio 2010 is one of the few Microsoft products that has made a transition from native C++ code to .NET managed code – the transition is partial, in that parts of Visual Studio remain in …continue reading Microsoft .NET gotchas revealed by Visual Studio team |
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