Since the announcement of WP7 I’ve seen and spoken to various people who are excited about the WP7 platform. While I’ve been skeptical of the device from the jump, I do look forward to the release. My skepticism comes from MS not learning from other platforms mistakes or successes (no multi-threading, expensive developer fees, etc).However,…
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Android: Db4o StackOverflowError
I‘m using db4o for a persistence store in an Android app since db4o allows FREE usage in Android apps I decide it would be a good fit. Until I ran into the an error I could not get around for a couple of weeks. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been dealing with an…
New DimeCast: Introduction to WP7
DimeCasts.net just published my latest screen-cast titled: “Hello World, I am Win Phone 7″ I cover the basic of a File –> New Windows 7 Phone Application and talk about the emulator for a few minutes. Enjoy. Watch the Screen-Cast Note: I do not cover installing the tools, Peter Henry does a great job of…
WP7 Emulator Screen Size Management
I’ve been developing Android apps for awhile now and at times the emulators are SOOO big that they litterally consume the entire screen real estate and its very difficult to navigate through the enumlator. I was very surprised when I started up the WP7 emulator and started finding out how simple it was to scale…
WP7 Boot to VHD
Tonigt I downloaded the WP7 Developer Tools on a new VHD (Boot to VHD). I’d I’d have to say … its super easy. File –> New As soon as the tools are installed you can select File –> New Windows Phone Application, as seen below: Selecting a new Phone app, I was able to get…
