Windows Phone 7 like every other phone OS turns off the screen after a period of inactivity. This is not a problem most of the time because any user activity (namely finger interactions on the screen) resets the countdown, so if you are using an application the screen saver will not get in the way. [...]
An unexpectedly time consuming part of Windows Phone 7 development are icons. Developers often don’t put much care into icons, and they are wrong. Your app is listed in the marketplace with an icon and most users just skip the crappy ones. If you make a bad icon most users won’t even read what the [...]
If you haven’t read Rudi Grobler’s Simple Error Reporting on WP7 and Simple Error Reporting on WP7 Redux, please go read them now. Basically it’s about reporting errors at runtime from a Windows Phone 7 application. I always incorporate this kind of functionality in my applications (not only on Windows Phone) and it has proven [...]
While internet to USB tethering is not officially supported by Windows Phone 7 until the promised Q1 2011 update, it seems that devices and OS already support it. Probably Microsoft has not yet reached an agreement with some carriers and their idiotic pricing plans, so the feature is just hidden. The good news is that [...]
While developing a Silverlight Windows Phone 7 app I ran into this problem: when the application closes, an internal IsolatedStorageException is raised: An error occurred while accessing IsolatedStorage. at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageSecurityState.EnsureState() at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFile.get_AvailableFreeSpace() at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageSettings.Save() at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageSettings.TrySave() at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageSettings.SaveAllSettings() at MS.Internal.FrameworkCallbacks.ShutdownAllPeers() IsolatedStorageSettings seemed to be the cause of the problem. Very [...]
Lately I’ve been busy coding stuff for Windows Phone 7 –really fun! If you are a Swiss individual (i.e. you are not developing your apps for a company) then joining the Marketplace is not very straightforward. If you reside in another non-U.S. country you may as well read this post, I suppose you will only [...]