How to find out, if your app is running in an emulator, or on a real device?
In July’s beta, Microsoft has moved this property from System.Environment to Microsoft.Devices.Environment namespace.
//enum DeviceType contains: Device, Emulator
this.IsEmulator = (Microsoft.Devices.Environment.DeviceType == DeviceType.Emulator);
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Es ist doch immer wieder erfreulich zu sehen, dass unsere gute, alte “Spin-the-Bottle” App immer noch zu den beliebtesten Apps für Windows Phone gehört !
In diesem Sinne …. viel Spass im Urlaub – egal ob beim Flaschendrehen oder Mäxchen spielen!
… und an den nächsten Games für Windows Phone7 und [...]
MS announced, that there will be no database available for 3rd party applications, like on windows mobile 6.5. Instead of using SqlServerCE the user shall use cloud computing or xml files to store data.
So I searched for alternatives, and found a very pretty proof of concept. This guy is using a modified version of csharp-SQLLite [...]
The developer Tool for Windows Phone reached beta-status. And Microsoft included into the 380 mb Setup Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone.
So far the good news.
The bad news: several things have changed from CTP.April to beta – most of all: consolidation and Namespaces. MS advices to totally rebuild your projects, and just copy the content [...]
Just playing with Silverlight & Windows Phone 7.
Guess, the result is quite okay so far. For what you can see, I used 2 components:
- PanoramaView Control: look&feel like known from the MS presentations
- AnimateOrientation: does the animation when rotating the phone.
See the video attached for where I got so far.
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Up to now I was unexcited about Windows Phone 7 – yet today I found something interesting. On Pdamaster it looks like a comeback of the transflective TFT’s on some of the “first wave” Windows Phone 7 devices.
I highly appreciate that – sunlight readability should be an important usability criteria for all handheld devices!
By now [...]
Das folgende Slide wurde von Microsoft auf der MIX10 in Las Vegas präsentiert und gibt einen guten Überblick über die Windows 7 Phone Application Platform.
Aufgrund der Consumer-Ausrichtung der zukünftigen Version von Windows Phone wird es spannend werden – Win7 Phones im Enterprise Bereich zu positionieren. Obwohl es eine Vielzahl von Stimmen gibt, die die [...]