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Windows Phone 7 developer story unveiled at Mix10

By tim, on March 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

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)
Windows Phone 7 Series add-in for Visual Studio 2010 RC
XNA Game Studio 4.0
Emulator
Expression Blend for

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Windows Phone 7 incompatibility may drive developers elsewhere

By tim, on March 5th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

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

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Flash 10.1 mobile roadmap confusion, Windows phone support far off

By tim, on March 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

When is the right moment to buy a mobile phone? Usually the answer is not quite yet; and that seems to the case if you want to be sure of support for Flash Player 10.1, the first full version of the runtime to run on mobile devices. Adobe recently struck off support for Windows Mobile

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Fragmentation and the RIA wars: Flash is the least bad solution

By tim, on February 25th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The latest salvo in the Adobe Flash wars comes from the Free Software Foundation, in an open letter to Google:

Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary

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What’s on at Mix 2010 – some surprises as Microsoft talks standards

By tim, on February 20th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Mix conference is on next month – probably the company’s second most interesting conference after PDC, though this Mix looks rather better than last year’s relatively drab PDC (free laptops aside). The company has plenty to talk about, primarily around Windows Phone development – twelve sessions! – Internet Explorer 9, and Silverlight 4. Mix

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Windows Phone 7 development rumours abound

By tim, on February 18th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

News about the Windows Phone 7 development platform is leaking out, ahead of its official unveiling at the Mix conference next month. Rumour has it that both Silverlight and the XNA gaming framework will be supported, for creating consumer-focused applications, together with limited access to native APIs subject to Microsoft’s specific approval.

The controversial aspect, if

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A Silverlight UI for Windows Mobile 7, backward compatibility in doubt

By tim, on January 24th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Note: speculative post; I have no official information on this.

It’s been rumoured for ages; but at this point I would be surprised if the Windows Mobile 7 UI were not built with Silverlight. Consider:

Silverlight has to be supported – it should have been in 6.5 – otherwise nobody will take mobile Silverlight seriously
WM7 has to

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Silverlight 4 with COM can do anything – on Windows

By tim, on January 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

At PDC Microsoft played down the significance of adding COM support to Silverlight 4 when run out of the browser and fully trusted (you can also be out of the browser and not fully trusted). The demos were of Office automation, and journalists were told that the feature was there to satisfy the requests of

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A year of blogging: another crazy year in tech

By tim, on December 31st, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

At this time of year I allow myself a little introspection. Why do I write this blog? In part because I enjoy it; in part because it lets me write what I want to write, rather than what someone will commission; in part because I need to be visible on the Internet as an individual,

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Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell

By tim, on December 18th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The Mono Project has released Moonlight 2, its implementation of Silverlight for Linux. I tried my own database application and was pleased to find that it works fine; better than it did with the earlier release.

Note the right-click menu which offers some handy debugging features as well as the invitation to “Install Microsoft Media Pack”.

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