“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” For two thousand years people have evoked this little pearl of wisdom from Seneca to explain why some people appear to stumble upon success more readily than others. Those words resonate with...

I recently blogged about Flashcards.Show Version 2 for WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone , which features the Flashcards.Show application. I’m not going to (again) review the app, but I do want to talk about how we developed the application and the...

      The Flashcards.show application has been around for few months now. It is mostly used as a developer’s reference and demo for showing specific and cool Windows 7 features. While the first version of the Flashcards let you create all...

By design, your Windows Phone application should load and run (display something to the user) as soon as possible—not simply to comply with the Windows Phone Marketplace certification process, but primarily to ensure a better user experience. Users hate...

By now you’ve likely heard about the announcement of our partnership with Nokia. I’m incredibly excited about its long-term potential and how it could enable us to innovate, differentiate, and combine strengths to build a new global ecosystem...

It has been a while since we updated the Windows Phone Training Kit and we are happy to announce that today we release updates (bug fix) and few new labs. As usual, you can download the full kit, or just the Silverlight or XNA framework labs. The online...

After reading my previous blog covering how to integrating IE9 pinning APIs with Adobe Flash, some of you may have wondered if the same fit is possible in Microsoft Silverlight. It certainly is! To demonstrate the concept of integrating IE9 Pinning APIs...

Yesterday, NVIDIA unveiled a brand new community website that is dedicated exclusively to 3D content for people with 3D PCs and 3D Vision. On 3DVisionLive.com , you’ll find tons of stereoscopic 3D videos and photos. Video content such as movie trailers...

Paramount Pictures announced today that they’re bringing enhanced movie apps to Windows Phone 7.  Paramount is releasing 10 full movies which include all the bonus content from a DVD plus stuff you can’t get on a disc like trivia by ‘Scene It?’. ...

The Nonlinear Navigation Service is the first recipe we are releasing. Windows Phone recipes are a group of open source (MSPL) projects aimed at helping the Windows Phone community with their applications. Recipes are usually common patterns for topics...

PDC10 starts in just two days. This year, PDC is being held at the Microsoft campus here in Redmond, and everyone here is very excited about it. While it sold out weeks ago, you shouldn’t feel bad if you aren’t able to attend the event in person. This...

UPDATE 10/4/10, 11:15am PT - Clarified Signature Upgrade requirements. Sorry for the confusion! Last week I had the opportunity to talk with Ken Fowles, the company’s “Signature Samurai” and the man responsible for running the Microsoft...

Windows Phone tools for developers are ready . Now it’s time for you to start building your own Windows Phone application. There are no more excuses, no reasons to postpone. Get the tools and start writing your app today! As part of our efforts to help...

Last Thursday, Seesmic officially released Seesmic Desktop 2 . Seesmic Desktop 2 is Seesmic’s brand new client for social network services. It’s no longer about just being a Twitter client. Seesmic Desktop 2 (SD2) brings together services like Twitter...

About two weeks ago I got a present – a pre-release unit of the Samsung X430. This carbon-look fiber clad PC is a Microsoft Store exclusive – it’s only sold in our new “brick-and-mortar” stores and at the Microsoft Store...

August marks the six-month anniversary of the public unveiling of our next-generation mobile phone, Windows Phone 7 . Six months is an interesting bit of time; it can fly by, or it can feel like it’s dragging on forever. The gating factor tends...

Today I’m at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington D.C., meeting with our partners and talking about the capabilities that Windows Phone 7 offers for creating mobile solutions and applications to help them grow their business...

3D entertainment is gaining quite a bit of momentum especially with awesome 3D movies like Alice in Wonderland and of course James Cameron’s Avatar. We’re seeing a sort of “3D revolution”, as NVIDIA calls it, where 3D is being introduced in all kinds...

It is time to get a jump-start on building apps for Windows Phone 7 with this FREE 2-day hands-on training event. This is your opportunity to learn how to build Silverlight or XNA applications that take advantage of the many Windows Phone 7 platform features...

In the previous post, Understanding How Microsoft Push Notification Works – Part 2 , we explained how Microsoft Push Notification (MPN) works and the different players that are required. This post focuses on how to write your WP application so it can...