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WP7 Upgrading to WP7 Mango

The process seemed faster than the upgrade to the beta version of Mango. There were two upgrades, but it was all down in one pass and the final result is a phone running Mango version 7.10.7720.68 aka Windows Phone 7.5. So I am on the other side of North America from the boys and girlsContinue reading “WP7 Upgrading to WP7 Mango”

WP7 – What is Shaking?

While upgrading one of my apps to Mango, I came across a possible issue with one of the new APIs. Part of the app simulates the rolling of dice and uses the ReadingChanged event. With Mango this method is depricated in favour of CurrentValueChanged. So I decided to upgrade to using Motion rather than theContinue reading “WP7 – What is Shaking?”

WP7 Dynamic Pivot example

In the App Hub forums I came across a discussion of data binding on a pivot item. http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/67287/412542.aspx. In one of his replies Peter Daukintis gave a link to his skydrive to download a basic example. (I love it when people actually provide a working example to play with). This is an interesting example ofContinue reading “WP7 Dynamic Pivot example”

Thanks for the Memory

Last October, Peter Torr from Microsoft, wrote a blog on checking memory usage. He wrote a Memory Diagnostic Helper that adds an extra counter next to the EnableFrameRateCounter that is usually enabled in App.xaml.cs. It is NOT part of the Frame Rate counter, just next to it. So if you turn off the Frame RateContinue reading “Thanks for the Memory”

WP7 Mango frustrations

I just spent a frustrating weekend trying to upgrade one of my apps to Mango. The process seemed straight forward, but I ended up with some cryptic errors and once I cleaned them up, the program failed to load with an unknown thread error. I was able to create a Mango verion of my appContinue reading “WP7 Mango frustrations”

Visio’s Multi-Shape

This week I had a request for assistance in finding Visio’s flowchart multi-shape. Rather than being in the Basic Flowchart stencil, it is now in Software and Database –> Program Structure in a stencil called Language Level Shapes and is called Flowchart shapes. This is an interesting shape because it contains four shapes with onlyContinue reading “Visio’s Multi-Shape”

HP can not write software

I just started doing some clean up on one of my removable drives and the HP Diagnostic Tools decided to kick in. There was no prompt to allow me to tell the program that I was busy and that the program should wait. Instead it plopped a “Please Wait” message in the middle of theContinue reading “HP can not write software”

Back to the Real World

Yesterday was a long day, up at 4am (Amsterdam time) for a 9am flight from Amsterdam to Frankfurt. Then a flight from Frankfurt to Ottawa (flying back over Amsterdam). We got out of the Ottawa airport at 4pm, and we were home ten minutes later (the advantage of living next to the airport). I did have aContinue reading “Back to the Real World”

Holland America – Disappointing Internet

I am sitting on the Lido deck waiting for breakfast. This is the last day of the Artic cruise and still several hours before any of the passengers can disembark, but if I want to use the internet, I have to sign up for a new package. My remaining half hour has disappeared. There also seemsContinue reading “Holland America – Disappointing Internet”

Zune HD going international?

As I travel around the North Sea and above the Arctic Circle, I have enjoyed playing with my Zune HD, a nice little device, I have loved since I got it a few years ago even though It is an American device being used in Canada. Other than teething pains with the radio presets theContinue reading “Zune HD going international?”