Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Improving the In-Memory Database
About a month ago, I wrote an article intended to help you fill some of the gaps left by the missing SQL Server Compact database. Since your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight app is consuming an...
View ArticleNokia and Microsoft announce plans for Broad Strategic Partnership
The two companies plan to combine assets and develop innovative products on an unprecedented scale to build a new global mobile ecosystem. - Nokia will adopt Windows Phone 7 as its principle smartphone...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 at Mobile World Congress
Right on the heels of the Microsoft – Nokia partnership announcement, we’ve got a bunch of new features that will be coming out before the end of 2011. Let’s take a quick look at what’s coming: - Copy...
View ArticleMango Mania
At MIX 11 in Vegas this week, we unveiled an avalanche of new platform features and tools for mobile developers. It’s a big list, and I’m sure I’ll leave some things out, but here I go: 1) Multitasking...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure
Looking back over the last 6 months of this series of articles, you’ve created wireless-efficient WCF REST + JSON Web Services in Azure to download data from SQL Azure tables to Windows Phone. You’ve...
View ArticleThe Windows Phone 7 Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) @ Tech Ed...
A Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) allows corporate IT departments to support multiple mobile applications on a single platform. Gartner states that this market currently tops $1 billion,...
View ArticleCome and Meet the Windows Phone 7 Team @ Tech Ed Europe 2010
Do you have a burning question related to Windows Phone? Are you unsure, confused or need more information? Do you have feedback you want to share? Whatever your motivation, this session is not to...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Working with an In-Memory Database
In my last article of this series, you finally got to consume wireless-friendly WCF REST + JSON Services from both Windows Server and Windows Azure with data coming from SQL Server/SQL Azure. You now...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Network Awareness
By now, you’ve heard me talk a lot about the role wireless data networks play when it comes to the success of your mobile application. They are unreliable, intermittent, highly latent and often slower...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Consuming an Azure WCF REST +...
In my last two articles, I showed you how to build WCF REST services using Visual Studio 2010 that can reside on-premise in Windows Server 2008 or in the Cloud in Windows Azure. Furthermore, I...
View ArticleDeveloping Cloud Connected Applications for Windows Phone 7 @ Tech Ed Europe...
The Silverlight development environment has proven itself to be a rich, capable and adaptable runtime that has reached across platforms to support Windows, the Mac, the Web, Nokia and Windows Phone 7....
View ArticleDon’t forget to Encrypt your Windows Phone 7 Data
Whether you’re targeting Mobile Line of Business apps for the Enterprise or B2C apps for consumers, ensuring that sensitive data is encrypted is a must. These days, I can’t have a serious discussion...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Building a WCF REST + JSON Service
Let’s start at the server and work our way to the phone. Anyone who knows me is probably aware that I come from a wireless background so I’m always obsessed with things like coverage, bandwidth and...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7: If at First You Don’t Succeed
Written by: J. Gerry Purdy 10/20/2010 You have to hand it to Microsoft. They have certainly fulfilled the old saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Microsoft has had a number of...
View ArticleDon’t forget to Encrypt your Windows Phone 7 Data
Whether you’re targeting Mobile Line of Business apps for the Enterprise or B2C apps for consumers, ensuring that sensitive data is encrypted is a must. These days, I can’t have a serious discussion...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Building a WCF REST + JSON Service
Let’s start at the server and work our way to the phone. Anyone who knows me is probably aware that I come from a wireless background so I’m always obsessed with things like coverage, bandwidth and...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7: If at First You Don’t Succeed
Written by: J. Gerry Purdy 10/20/2010 You have to hand it to Microsoft. They have certainly fulfilled the old saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Microsoft has had a number of...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Consuming an Azure WCF REST +...
In my last two articles, I showed you how to build WCF REST services using Visual Studio 2010 that can reside on-premise in Windows Server 2008 or in the Cloud in Windows Azure. Furthermore, I...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Working with an In-Memory Database
In my last article of this series, you finally got to consume wireless-friendly WCF REST + JSON Services from both Windows Server and Windows Azure with data coming from SQL Server/SQL Azure. You now...
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