I recently blogged about programming for the future of mobile with jQuery Mobile and the WebAPI. You probably heard that jQuery Mobile 1.0 was released earlier this week. Although it will take a while before we will see some actual results from the WebAPI initiative, that shouldn't keep us from lett...

Windows Phone developers can start building apps that access Microsoft's Skydrive cloud storage utility today. The 1.0 version of the WP7 Skydrive API was released this week.

A presentation on WP7 development with F#.

This post provides an example of an AccelerometerProxy in F#.

Last couple of days we discussed about Page State and Application State of Windows Phone 7 (Mango). We learnt various ways of saving state of the page or application. After reading those chapters, you might have question in your mind that how to save the state of the application before closing the a...

A quick tutorial on how to get your WP7 application to be listed as a search extra in the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Mango update

Although the Windows Phone platform doesn't support a local database out of the box, adding support for SQLite to a Windows Phone app is actually very easy. Vici CoolStorage, an open-source data access layer and ORM, allows you to add local SQLite db access to your Windows Phone app

Create a generic and flexible converter to convert enums to bool or visibility.

Taking a look at how the phone uses themes and styles. We will focus on how to determine which theme is being used as well as learning how to swap out our resource files which are used by our application based on the active theme. Knowing which theme is in use will allow your application to bette...

Taking a look at store data in Isolated Storage on the phone Storing data in Isolated Storage on the phone is critical because there is no SQL database which can run on the phone at this point. In this episode we will look at how we can store and retrieve data to storage on the phone.

Taking a look at how to handle tombstoning (when your application is not longer in focus, but is not shut down yet) in your WP7 application. When building out a WP7 application it is critical that your application can handle Tombstoning and rebuild itself as needed. This is to allow the user to h...

So, what does notifypropertyweaver do? If your class implements INotifyPropertyChanged then you just need to have auto-implemented properties and notifypropertyweaver automagically ensures that on change of value of a property, PropertyChanged event is fired.

If you’ve been doing mobile development, you probably know all about the problem of having to target multiple platforms, along with the languages each one requires. Having to rewrite and support essentially the same code on different platforms flat out sucks, and isn’t really a great way to spend yo...

The official Windows Phone Developer Tools are out! The Silverlight toolkit team is at it again, this time for Windows Phone 7. The team is releasing a series of controls/libraries to help WP7 developers fill some gaps and simply make things easier and more consistent.