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”
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WP7 / Zune HD poor travel clocks?
Is there no way to change the time zone on a WP7? Or did I not properly RTM? We are taking a break from the heat and we are cruising around the North Sea up to the Article Circle. I have tried to use my Zune HD and WP7 as travel clocks and have beenContinue reading “WP7 / Zune HD poor travel clocks?”
C# – The new APL?
Thanks to a heads up by HockeyGeekGirl, I have spent the last few days dissecting and digesting a new Mango example for handling a database. It is more than what I need, but it is useful exploring the code to figure out what makes it tick. My immediate interest is to dynamically create PivotItems forContinue reading “C# – The new APL?”
WP7 Database Caveat
Lately I have been playing with Pivots for the WP7 and how to add filtering. I did have a MVVM example that I was able to add filtering and convert it to a pivot, but I am not sure the final result was the best way. Susan Ibach, aka HockeyGeekGirl, pointed me to a recent postContinue reading “WP7 Database Caveat”
Whats’ in a name?
You are working on your app and you realize that Test233 is not a great name for an app, so how do you change it. Just rename the file? Not quite. You can select the project in Visual Studio and chose the rename function, but this is only the start. Next is to go throughContinue reading “Whats’ in a name?”
Mangoed
Last night’s project was to try out Mango on my phone. I am not a heavy phone user, so I did not have a lot to lose if anything went wrong. The instructions were relatively straight forward, but there were a few issues. The preamble could have hinted that all your settings in Zune wouldContinue reading “Mangoed”
Time to get a fruity phone.
No, I am not switching to an Iphone. I just got the invitation to be part of the Mango beta. The upgrade to the WP7 SDK hinted at some tempting features and I am now eager to actually try it on a real device. Earlier this week, One of the local Microsoft reps let me playContinue reading “Time to get a fruity phone.”
Visio Group on Drop
I spent a few hours tonight trying to figure out why dropping a shape onto a group was no longer working. The concept is that you can specify a shape as a group and then drop another shape on top of it and the second shape becomes part of the original group. This requires thatContinue reading “Visio Group on Drop”
Which way is up?
I have been programing for decades and fell into a rut with VBA. It was so easy to code. With the introduction of WP7 I bit the bit the bullet and took another look at C#. I had played with C when it first came out (that is the original C with no qualifiers 😉Continue reading “Which way is up?”
WP7 Battery Life
My Windows phone has not been known for quick charging, but I fould out a new issue with the battery. I had the phoned tethered to my laptop for charging and downloading and used one of the USB ports that made the cable get in the way. When the phone was fully charged, I disconnected theContinue reading “WP7 Battery Life”
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