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Hi folks, In this article we’ll review new developer WinRT features that’ll be released in the upcoming Windows 8 release (dubbed “Windows 8.1” / “Windows Blue”). Microsoft recently announced that during June 2013’s BUILD conference a developer preview of Windows 8.1 will be released for download. In the meanwhile many Windows 8.1 “leaked” images are available online. These “leaked” images allows…
Hi folks, In this article I’d like to present all the new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango APIs. The goal is to inform developers who aren’t familiar with Mango of what new APIs are available. Since there are “1,500” new APIs we won’t be able to deep-dive into APIs with code samples. We’ll examine the new APIs and their related class diagrams. Most APIs should be fairly straightforward to professional .net…
Hi folks, As you might have noticed my blog has undergone a metamorphosis and is now Windows 8 Metro style inspired. It’s also no longer in Silverlight. What are the top 2 features of this blog? One of the top two features I’m quite excited about is a home page with flipping tiles . If you haven’t seen it yet head on over to http://JustinAngel.net and have a look. Another feature I’m quite…
Hi folks, In this article I’ll share the results of ad-hoc security vulnerabilities research I’ve done on windows 8 apps deployment. Specifically, we’ll discuss fundamental design flaws that allow to Reverse Engineer Win8 apps, modification of installed apps and the negative implications on Intellectual Property rights protection, Licensing models and overall PC security. Finally we’ll discuss…
Hi folks, We’re all on constant voyage to better understand Windows Phone 7 and its delicate Consumer<->Developer balance. As part of that education I’ve download all Windows Phone 7 marketplace XAPs, performed analysis on them and am now sharing statistics with you. Downloading the WP7 Marketplace Some of you must be thinking to yourselves “ Self, how exactly did Justin download all WP7 XAPs? And…
Hi Folks, This is a short blog post to share with you my latest project: Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki . What’s this Wiki about? “This document represents current consensus around development best practices for Windows Phone 7 . These best practices are collaboratively developed and discussed by the WP7 developers community. As such, anyone may contribute.” Who’s the Wiki’s…
Hi Folks, I’d like to share some general specifics around my latest endeavour: the Windows Phone 7 app “Neurons”. What is “Neurons” all about? What does it actually do? "Neurons" streams TED Talks, The RSA (and RSA Animate), FORA.tv and Science Dump to your Windows Phone 7. You can view the latest talks from each of these knowledgeable sources or Search for more talks. Feel free to share talks you…
Hi Folks, In this article we’ll review Windows Phone 7 support for the Visual Basic .Net and F# programming languages. Our goal is to demonstrate that Windows Phone 7 can indeed support F# and VisualBasic.Net code libraries and user controls. You can get the sample project we’ve build in this article @ http://JustinAngel.net/storage/WP7.Languages.zip Why?! Why has Microsoft forsaken us?! Reading…
Hi Folks, In this blog post we’ll cover how to set up automated (nightly?) builds on a Team Foundation 2010 Build Server for Windows Phone 7 projects. The core challenge we’ll face is not having Visual Studio, Windows Phone 7 Tools or Windows Phone 7 SDK installed on the Build Server. You can get a sample project with all the modifications discussed in this blog post at:…
Hi Folks, In this next blog post we’ll review how to automate the Windows Phone 7 Emulator and what are some real-world usages this technique. This blog post is the second blog post in a series of unrelated advanced Windows Phone 7 blog posts. The previous blog post in this series is “ Windows Phone 7 – Unlocked ROMs ”. Why is Windows Phone 7 Automation Important? Currently, the Windows Phone 7…