Daily Links 12/07/2011

MonoCross - The Technology
Some very interesting thoughts on cross platform development, along with an open-sourced framework that practically implements it.
The Mono team has since been retrenched, but keep an eye on Xamarin (from those very same developers) for some exciting developments in the cross-platform space.

Creating WP7 promotional videos

Portable Library Tools
Single library - multiple .NET platforms

Top 8 Websites To Learn Windows Phone 7 Development

WP7 Launchers - Mango (Windows Phone 7.1)

Resources for Windows Phone Mango Developers

PinCodeKeeper WP7 app - Submitting to Marketplace

Building a detailed About page for your Windows Phone application

Silverlight Touch Library
Provides some parity with the touch API found in the windows phone silverlight framework

Daily Links 04/07/2011

Breaking News: Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta2(Mango) now available
Release Notes

Windows Phone 7: Login UI Sample Code and Coding4Fun

Step by Step Mango Beta Developer Update Guide for Windows Phone 7 (WP7)

Download Windows Phone 7,1 SDK Beta 2 - Web and Offline installer

Unit Testing the Windows Phone 7 applications

Augmented Reality With Windows Phone 7 - Part I Camera+Sensors
Augmented Reality With Windows Phone 7 - Part II Sensors

Announcing the Microsoft Entity Framework June 2011 CTP
Walkthrough: Enums (June CTP)

Make Money with the Microsoft Ad Control

Visual Studio Code Cleanup Macro

Daily Links 24/06/2011

Windows 8 for software developers: the Longhorn dream reborn?

WP7 Apps browse

WP7: How to create an alarm application (Mango)

WP7 Trial Mode done simply

Drag and drop in WPF (and similar to Silverlight)

Play Media files with the MediaPlayerLauncher in Windows Phone 7

Getting Started with Kinect Development

3 Incredibly Useful Projects to jump-start your Kinect Development.

MonoMobile.MVVM, Round 2

Portable Library Tools
Excellent! Up until now I've been using shared files and using the "Add as Link" functionality into the platform-specific projects. This should make things much simpler.

Silverlight Debug Helper

WPCentral Review: Windows Phone "Mango" (preview release)

Firefox 5

Daily Links 20/06/2011

HTML 5 vs Silverlight 5

Windows Phone Mango Features vs iOS5 Features

WP7: Detecting Network Information

Surfy for Windows Phone 7
Web Browser with tabbed browsing

Metro In Motion Part #7 - Panorama Prettiness and Opacity

ChevronWP7 Labs will jailbreak your Windows Phone with Microsoft's approval

Expression Blend templates for Windows Phone applications

AgFx hidden gem - PhoneApplicationFrameEx

10 Silverlight 5 Demos

Silverlight Drag and Drop for Business Applications

Silverlight Panorama Template

DevLabs: Debugger Canvas
Unfortunately only for VS Ultimate :(

Welcome to the first release of the WCF Express Interop Bindings

Kinect for windows SDK beta Tools

Free Version of YouTRACK Issue and Bug Tracker from JetBrains
Why the New YouTrack Matters

Perspectives
"allows Visual Studio 2010 users to select and manager Visual Studio windows configurations."

Daily Links 14/06/2011

Useful Mango Developer Resources

Windows Phone 7 Navigation Transitions Step By Step guide

Windows Phone 7 - Getting Started and Key Apps

Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework binaries - compatible with the Mango phone tools beta

Silverlight: The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated!

Reactive Extensions 6/5/2011 release available

6 Quick tips to make your WP7 App pass Microsoft’s Certification

Best Practices for Application Marketing

Send Toast Made Easy

Track the sales/downloads of your Windows Phone 7 applications with Mopapp

Consuming WCF Web APIs in Windows Phone

HTML App Host Framework for Phone 7

Building an HTML/HTML5... Based Application for Phone 7

HTML5 Snippets

Coded UI Test: Convert Normal CUIT to Data Driven CUIT using Visual Studio 2010

Daily Links 08/06/2011

Slide-out keyboard support on Windows Phone

WP7 Mango: Know about application lifecycle

Developers: New Screenshot Tool Now Available

Seven useful tips and tools for Windows Phone 7 developers

WP7Contrib – Bing Maps REST Service Wrappers

Elevated Trust in Silverlight 4
" Apply custom chrome;
Directly access selected directories on the file system;
Use COM Interop to open up a whole range of features, including;
Running windows applications;
Integrating with Microsoft Office products;
Access to the Windows Speech API.
Relaxed user consent on Clipboard, WebCam and Microphone access
Full Screen Keyboard support
Cross Domain network calls, without the requirement for a Client Access Policy. "

Silverlight, HTML5 & Windows 8 : Where we are heading to ?

WCF Extensibility – Custom Serialization in Silverlight

wp7essentials
making the common things you have to do in every windows phone application, like persist application settings, use tasks/choosers, log/trace, threading/asynchronous development etc. testable.

The Sterling NoSQL Database in a Mango World

Windows Phone: Capture + Resize Image using the phone camera

Sample code. It’s not tested, so let me know if there are any issues:

Basically a wrapper around CaptureCameraTask with some image resize filling.

 

Usage:

      private void ConfirmMarkerPicture_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
      {
         CameraTask task = new CameraTask();
         task.TakePicture(CameraTask_TakenPicture, true);
      }

      private void CameraTask_TakenPicture(BitmapImage image)
      {
         _imgMarker.Source = image;
      }

… where _imgMarker is type Image.


There are also Resize Width and Height properties which can be set prior to TakePicture call.

Happy coding .