Tag Archives: microsoft

My thoughts on Windows Phone 7 development

The first question many developers probably ask themselves when thinking about starting developing for Windows Phone 7 is – “Is it worth it?” It’s one thing when you are already a .NET developer (bonus points if you worked with XNA and Silverlight), but it’s a completely different story when the developer that asks that questions [...]

Windows Phone 7 emulator – applications can be pinned and removed

Not many of the developers who use the Windows Phone 7 emulator know, that when you deploy an application from Visual Studio 2010, you are able to pin it to the Start page, as well as uninstall the application entirely. When an application is deployed to the emulator, exit it (in case you were running), [...]

Visual Studio 2010 is here

Today, at 10:00AM PST (Pacific Standard Time), Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 became available for download on MSDN, for those who have a valid MSDN subscription. I was watching the live keynote and some really interesting points were made, especially those about team collaboration. For those who missed it, today (I am not sure if it [...]

Going the C++ way. With Microsoft C/C++ compiler and Notepad++

Recently I decided that I need to work more with C++ than I do now (my primary focus being C#). I picked up a Visual C++ 2008 book (I wanted to start with Visual C++ since I already have some experience with .NET and I would really like to work with managed C++, as well [...]