Daily Links 28/05/2011

Developer News: Beta Mango Tools Available Today
downlaod link

Augmented Mango - SLARToolkit for Windows Phone

Zune Detection and Network Awareness

A few tips for working with XAML inside of Visual Studio 2010.

User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows Phone

WP7 Barcode Reading

WP7: Searching your contacts

How to: Improve the Responsiveness of Your Application Using the Windows Phone Profiler

What’s New in Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta?

Windows Phone 7 Mango - Silverlight and XNA integration

Monitor network connectivity in WP7 apps

Windows Phone 7 Development: How to change the Target Phone Version back to v7.0 from v7.1

EF 4.1 Validation

NOW AVAILABLE: New Windows Azure Platform Pricing Calculator

Silverlight–Disable ListBox Selection

After some searching, the following seems to be the simplest solution:
Disable Selection of a ListBoxItem with this style:

Apply the style to the ListBox – like so:

Daily Links 23/05/2011

Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Adding Buy Now Functionality

Simulating tombstone (suspended state) on Windows Phone 7 emulator

How to get the UniqueID of a Windows Phone device using C#

Offline Microsoft Silverlight Applications

Encouraging Windows Phone Marketplace Reviews

Things to consider before submitting your WP7 App

How to Publish Your AppMakr App into the Windows Phone Marketplace

WP7: Extending the ListBox Control

Silverlight Augmented Reality Toolkit

Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 2)

TileSlider Control for WP7 (OpenSource)

NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2

Consider this when downloading large files on Windows Phone 7

New countries supported by Mango Windows Phone Update

Debugging Windows Phone 7 device network access with just a laptop

Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Advanced Buy Now Implementation

EF Power Tools CTP1 are Great for Code First

Using IIS Express to Secure Silverlight and WCF Applications

Za Developers - getting a WP7 device

I've been developing a WP7 application since the tools were released, and with the news that the marketplace is coming to South Africa, I thought it was time to get a device.
The best contract that I could find was a deal from 8ta:
R230 p/m
HTC Mozart (imo the best WP7 device currently available from a network)
90 mins any network
230 mins 8ta and landlines
25 MB Data

Unfortunately my current contract was only up for cancellation in October, and I really don't have that much patience, so I wondered over to expansys and bought a LG Optimus E900 for just under R3000 - I've seen it priced for as low as R2300 (the other WP7 devices were selling for just over 6G's)
The above mentioned 8ta contract can also be bought without a device with R2800 gift voucher, so it was a no-brainer.

I don't think the LG is available from a local network, but if you're willing to ignore the plain TFT screen, it has great features like 16Gig storage and 1500Ma battery.

Daily Links 13/05/2011

List of some new APIs that will be introduced with the updated SDK (Windows Phone - Mango)

Top Tips for Building a Successful WP7 Application

XNA Game resources: Free sounds and music to use in your games

Using SterlingDB with Telerik RadJumpList to achieve maximum performance in LOB scenarios

Windows Phone 7 Development 101 - Off To Market!

Common Windows Phone 7 Performance Challenges

Coming in Mango:Sql Server CE

Windows Phone Beginner Series

TouchStudio - Hello World

Silverlight Validation: Resource File

Built-in GZip/Deflate Compression on IIS 7.x

Coded UI Test (CUIT) using Visual Studio 2010

Free EBook: Designing for WP7

Best Collection of Mobile User Interface Patterns

10 Reasons Why Architects and Developers Should Care about Cloud Computing

Daily Links 03/05/2011

Accessing ObjectContext Features from EF 4.1 DbContext

Wintellect Silverlight Touch Library
reusable library that provides Multi-Touch support for Silverlight applications by via Manipulations, Gestures, and specialized Behaviors and controls.

Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki V0.1

How to customize the WP7 ListBox Selected Item | Part1: Control Template

Managing Tombstone State in a Windows Phone 7 Application

Windows Phone 7 and WCF Don’t Play Nicely

FloatingWindow v1.2: multi-windows interface for Silverlight 4

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes: Multiple Window Support

Silverlight 5: Elevated Trust In-Browser

Silverlight 5’s New and Improved Threading Architecture

MSBuild Extension Pack April 2011 Release

StyleCop 4.5 RC1

Daily Links 18/04/2011

Silverlight 5 Beta: A guide to the new features

Silverlight 5 Beta: Let's deal with it's features

Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 5 Beta

Using Custom Markup Extensions in Silverlight 5

List of newly supported developer countries for Marketplace
At last!

A Quick Wrap-Up of Today’s Windows Phone Announcements at MIX
cool devtools bro!

Mango adds Beta and Private Marketplaces to Windows Phone 7 and neglects Enterprise
w00t for the Beta Marketplace!

Mix11: Windows Phone 7 news

Microsoft TouchStudio for Windows Phone 7

EF 4.1 Released

EF Video Series

Code First/Entity Framework 4.1 Videos and Articles on MSDN

Building WP7 Custom Validation Control - Validation Logic

Make your own Angry Birds for WP7